NHS figure

Kenneth Robinson NHS Timeline

Follow the NHS-related events in the supplied World History Database records for Kenneth Robinson.

13 records1964–1968

Person timeline

Kenneth Robinson in the NHS archive

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Chronological records

NHS events

Date	Person	Event	Place	Description
1964	Kenneth Robinson Minister · Minister of Health	Minister of Health Appointment	London, Great Britain	Robinson becomes Minister of Health and assumes responsibility for the NHS during a period of growing concern about general practice, hospitals and staffing.
1965	Kenneth Robinson Minister · Minister of Health	Family Doctor Charter Negotiations	London, Great Britain	Robinson negotiates with general-practice representatives over the Family Doctor Charter, addressing workload, premises, staffing and the future organisation of primary care.
1965	Kenneth Robinson Minister · Minister of Health	General Practice Premises Support	London, Great Britain	New financial support for practice premises is agreed, encouraging purpose-built surgeries and better facilities for the expanding work of NHS general practice.
1965	Kenneth Robinson Minister · Minister of Health	NHS Structural Review Debate	London, Great Britain	Robinson considers growing professional demands for closer coordination between hospitals, general practice and local authority health services without immediately reorganising the NHS.
1965	Kenneth Robinson Minister · Minister of Health	Practice Staff Reimbursement	London, Great Britain	The government agrees arrangements to reimburse a substantial share of practice staff costs, enabling general practices to employ more nurses, receptionists and administrative staff.
1966	Kenneth Robinson Minister · Minister of Health	General Practitioner List Limit	Great Britain, Great Britain	The revised general-practice arrangements reinforce workload controls, including a 2,000-patient benchmark that recognises the relationship between list size and safe care.
1966	Kenneth Robinson Minister · Minister of Health	Hospital Programme Revision	London, Great Britain	The national hospital building programme is revised as costs, changing bed requirements and service developments force modifications to earlier construction plans.
1966	Kenneth Robinson Minister · Minister of Health	New General Practitioner Contract	Great Britain, Great Britain	A new GP contract implements major elements of the Family Doctor Charter and provides stronger financial support for staff, premises and practice development.
1966	Kenneth Robinson Minister · Minister of Health	NHS Pay Freeze	London, Great Britain	The government's wider prices and incomes policy constrains health-service pay, adding to professional dissatisfaction over staffing pressures and remuneration.
1967	Kenneth Robinson Minister · Minister of Health	Hospital Service Coordination	London, Great Britain	The Ministry promotes closer coordination of hospital services as specialist medicine expands and regional planning becomes increasingly important to efficient NHS provision.
1968	Kenneth Robinson Minister · Minister of Health	First NHS Reorganisation Green Paper	London, Great Britain	The government publishes a Green Paper proposing major NHS reorganisation to reduce fragmentation between hospital, family-practitioner and local-authority services.
1968	Kenneth Robinson Minister · Minister of Health	Measles Vaccination Programme	Great Britain, Great Britain	The NHS introduces routine measles vaccination, beginning a national programme intended to reduce a common childhood infection and its serious complications.
1968	Kenneth Robinson Minister · Minister of Health	Prescription Charges Reintroduced	Great Britain, Great Britain	Prescription charges are reintroduced with exemptions for specified patients, reversing the earlier abolition while retaining protection for groups judged most vulnerable.