File 1 - Press cuttings relating to the Committee of Enquiry into the Cost of the National Health Service.

Guillebaud was appointed Chairman of the committee (known also as the 'Guillebaud Committee'), who were to examine the structure and present and prospective cost of the NHS.

Most items previously folded in A5 envelope; all except i) and ii) are 1956. Contents:

i) Editorial, 'A Wise Move', in The Times, 2 April 1953;

ii) Poem (in the style of 'The Walrus and the Carpenter') mentioning Guillebaud, in 'In England Now', The Lancet, 1 August 1953, p. 252;

[all remaining dates 1956]

iii) 'No "Widespread Extravagance" in Health Service', 'No Change in N.H.S.' and 'Budgeting for Health', from The Times, 26 January [pp. 5, 8, 9 respectively; two copies on differing paper types];

iv) Articles, 'Spend more on health! Report snubs Cabinet' and '"Doc" Guillebaud finds your Health Service Fighting Fit', by Deryck Winterton, in The Daily Herald, 26 January;

v) 'Health Costs', in The Manchester Guardian, 26 January;

vi) 'Cost of Health Service Down Every Year', in The Manchester Guardian, 26 January [digitised copy headed 'Proportionate Cost...'];

vii) 'Health Service Bogy Slain', in Daily Worker, London [newspaper of the Communist Party of Great Britain], 26 January;

viii) 'Sound Health Service plans', in Yorkshire Post, 26 January;

ix) 'Report on National Health Service' and 'No Major Changes Required in Running of National Health Service', in Glasgow Herald, 26 January, pp. 7,8;

x) 'Tory economy hopes are dimmed' [subheading; headline torn], by Ian Trethowan, in News Chronicle and Daily Dispatch. n.d. [c.26 January];

xi) 'British Health Service Upheld in Inquiry Committee Report', in The New York Times, 26 January [p. 3] (two copies, one retained);

xii) 'Prescription for Health', by the Rt Hon. Hilary A. Marquand, M.P. [in The Observer, 29 January, p. 7];

xiii) Typescript copies: British Information Services' summary of newspapers' reports, headed 'The Health Service', 26 January; 'No Savings' (editorial), in Financial Times, 26 January; 'Health on the Cheap', in The Economist, 28 January, p. 282;

xiv) 'National Health' [editorial], in The Sunday Times, 29 January;

xv) 'A Divided Service' [editorial], in The Times, 31 January, p. 9;

xvi) 'The Cost of Health', in Spectator, 3 February, p. 139;

xvii) 'Socialism and the Health Service', in The New Statesman and Nation, 4 February, p. 115;

xviii) 'True Bill of Health?', in The Economist, 4 February, pp. 355-6;

xix) 'Essence of Parliament', by Christopher Hollis, in Punch, 16 May, pp. 600-1.