Political Developments: Health and Education under the Citizens Charter

Question 1

Which part of the NHS was “privatised” under the Citizen’s Charter?

Answer 1

Hospitals

Question 2

What name was given to NHS hospitals under the Citizens Charter?

Answer 2

Trusts

Question 3

What would hospitals be able to do with their budgets under the Citizens Charter?

Answer 3

Manage their own budgets

Question 4

What was the aim of giving NHS hospitals control over their own budget?

Answer 4

To improve their efficiency

Question 5

What did NHS hospitals do in terms of hiring businesses to work in their hospitals under the Citizens Charter?

Answer 5

Hired more businesses to work in their hospitals

Question 6

If there were more employees in hospitals, what was needed more?

Answer 6

Managers

Question 7

How much was spent on the income of NHS managers in 1990?

Answer 7

£150 million

Question 8

How much was spent on the income of NHS managers in 1994?

Answer 8

£600 million

Question 9

How can it be seen NHS trusts were inefficient at managing their own budgets?

Answer 9

30 hospitals were in deficit by 1995

Question 10

What did Major introduce to Education in 1994?

Answer 10

Teacher Training Agency

Question 11

What was the aim of the Teacher Training Agency?

Answer 11

To improve the efficiency of teachers

Question 12

When was the National Curriculum created? What did this do?

Answer 12

1997, Standardised Education

Question 13

What did the 1992 Education Act enforce schools to do with their exam results?

Answer 13

Publish their exam results

Question 14

What did the 1992 Education Act do to polytechnics?

Answer 14

Reclassified them as universities

Question 15

What did the 1992 Education Act do to university funding?

Answer 15

Put it in the control of the government

Question 16

What would have been a negative impact of government control of university funding?

Answer 16

Universities had less freedom over themselves

Question 17

What happened to university capacities in the 1992 Education Act?

Answer 17

They were allowed to take in more students

Question 18

What change to Univerisities did Major oppose? Why?

Answer 18

Introducing fees for home students, fearing it would alienate them from going to university

Question 19

What was a goal of the Education system with Univerisites under the Citizen’s Charter?

Answer 19

They wanted to have 1/3 of young adults in Universities by 1999

Question 20

When did 1/3 of young adults in Britain attend univerisites by?

Answer 20

1994