Correspondence with the general public on the National Health Service, with correspondents including: David Pollock, former Director, Action on Smoking and Health; Sir Douglas Black, former President, Royal College of Physicians; Diane Abbott on nurses from the Commonwealth; Elaine Murphy, Professor of Psychiatry of Old Age, Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals, London, on researching the policy of mental hospital closures (3); representatives of the Lancet (3); William Waldegrave, Secretary of State for Health; Professor Hugh Freeman, Editor of the British Journal of Psychiatry (3); Sir [William] Vernon Seccombe, Chairman of the South Western Regional Health Authority; Althea Hannay (3); Richard Needham, Minister for Health and Social Security [6th Lord Kilmorey] on the public education campaign on AIDS; Edwina Currie, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health; Michael Meadowcroft; Brian Morris, Principal of St David’s University College, University of Wales; C J Fell (5); Ronald Forbes, General Director, All Faiths' World Alcohol Project (4); [Peter] Norman Fowler, Secretary of State for Social Services, on the limited list of drugs, figures for doctors from overseas and the closure of the New Cross dental school [Wolverhampton, Staffordshire] (3); Kenneth Clarke, Minister of Health; Miss C Elliott (4); Franklin Scott (3); Bryan Thwaites, Chairman of Wessex Regional Health Authority; David Horne, on JEP's policy as Minister of Health on the provision of drugs for private patients (3); Don Phillips (4); Gerard Vaughan, Minister for Health, on the New Cross dental school (2).

Other subjects include: the fluoridation of water; nurses' pay.

Also includes: draft paper by David Pollock on smoking and health, 1935-64 [later published as "Denial and Delay"]; paper by Sir Douglas Black on National Health Service reforms; paper on military influence on the nursing profession, 1939-80; paper on black women and the National Health Service; British Medical Association report, Agenda for Health; text of the Tony Trafford Memorial Lecture by William Waldegrave, on his view of the National Health Service; text of short article by JEP on cuts in care for the mentally ill; report by the St Michael's Organization on public provision for health care; articles on AIDS, including Department of Health information leaflets and brief; BUPA annual report, 1984; paper by Bryan Thwaites on the long-term problems of the National Health Service; constitution of the National Society of Non-Smokers; British Dental Association brief and other papers on the closure of the New Cross dental school; comments on the dental strategy review group recommendations on dental therapists; article by James Fries on increasing life expectancy.