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Charges for eye tests and dental care (1987)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Report on white paper with proposed charges for eye tests and dental care. Includes reaction from Ian Hunter, Association of Optometrists; David Watson, BMA; Barney Hayhoe, Conservative MP; Health Minister...
Kenneth Clarke on nurses’ pay package (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
Health Secretary, Kenneth Clarke discusses the new pay package for nurses worth 140 million pounds - the equivalent of a 17.9 percent increase. He says that criticisms of the deal raised by Robin Cook and...
Health secretary on NHS future (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
Peter Murphy interviews Health Secretary Kenneth Clarke on his white paper on reform of the NHS, he doesnt understand why the Labour Party’s Robin Cook jumped to the conclusion he is lining the NHS up for...
Kenneth Clarke on NHS cuts (1990)
- Genre
- Interview
Des Fahy interviews Health Secretary Kenneth Clarke at the Conservative Party conference in Bournemouth, about a series of leaked letters, which the Labour Party’s Shadow Health Minister, Robin Cook,...
Kenneth Clarke announces public consultation on self-governing hospitals (1990)
- Genre
- Interview
Health Secretary Kenneth Clarke is interviewed by Sally Arthy on his new plans for the National Health Service. Up to eighty hospitals are expected to apply to be self-governing, with each being subject to a...
Major on the NHS promising no privatisation (1991)
- Genre
- Press conference
Prime Minister John Major holds a press conference on the NHS ahead of the Conservative Party conference in Blackpool. He says he will not privatise the NHS and discredits Robin Cook and the Labour Party’s...
NHS waiting lists down (1992)
- Genre
- Interview
Health Secretary William Waldegrave talks about the reduction in patients waiting more than two years for operations which the labour Party are dismissing as massaging statistics. Male interviewer not...
Coal industry to be privatised (1993)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Energy Minister Tim Eggar on the planned privatisation of the coal industry, Labour shadow Trade and Industry Secretary Robin Cook’s concerns over health and safety standards under private...
Scott Report pre-release speed read (1996)
- Genre
- Parliamentary debate
Prime Minister John Major speaking in the Commons denies that conditions for Robin Cook (Labour) and Menzies Campbell (Liberal Democrats) were as bad as they’d claimed when they went to read the Scott...