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Health Reform

Great Britain · Government / Conservative Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

3Records
1988–1989Date range
2Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1988

Kenneth Clarke1988

London · Government / Conservative Party Government

Introduces GP budgets for patients with non critical conditions. Introduces a system for money to follow patients

Margaret Hilda Thatcher1988

London · Government / Conservative Party Government

The DHSS is split into the Health & Social Security Departments

1989

Margaret Hilda Thatcher1989

London · Government / Conservative Party Government

A White Paper proposes an internal market of self-governing NHS trusts

Names involved

Kenneth ClarkeMargaret Hilda Thatcher

Provenance

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