This is getting silly: even sillier than usual.

As you probably know, we reported that the NHS White Paper's rescheduled publication date of Monday 12 July is likely to be missed, and that its publication will be accompanied by five consultation documents.

In other words, where this White Paper is not blank, it's Green.

Hello. This is going to be a bit brief - my back's in intermittent spasm, making most things difficult. Still, if I can do the upper lip Viagra thing, no doubt you can too. You can cope with shortish rations today.

Health Policy Insight understands that the NHS White Paper will be launched at the end of July. It will be accompanied by five consultation documents, on various aspects of policy.

UPDATE: As you may well be aware, events have moved on rather fast since this was written. See here for own-word-consumption.

This adjournment debate in the Commons last night is of interest. Firstly, it shows that dwarf-baiting Health Minister Simon Burns MP is going to prove an effective performer on the defensive. That will prove a useful skill.

Health policy is fun.

No, honestly, sit down and watch. You get to see the whole gamut of emotions, religions and vices pass by you.

Guardian social affairs editor Randeep Ramesh (at whom I wrongly had a go on this blog ages back - sorry, Randeep) was at the launch of the latest report from the Commission On 2020 Public Services At The RSA, where Commons health select committee chair and ex-Health Secretary Stephen Dorrell hymned the praises of vouchers in the NHS.

Sir David Nicholson, Chief Executive of the NHS in England

Sir Robert Naylor is one of the best-known acute trust chief executives in the NHS. After a decade at the helm of first-wave foundation trust UCLH, Naylor’s influence at the leading edge of acute modernisation is as unmistakable as his nickname ‘Bob The Builder’, earned for his dramatic remodelling of UCLH’s physical estate under PFI.

The Magnificent Timmins does it again.

Nick's FT piece confirms what we reported in our coverage of David Nicholson's Confed speech: that Lansley's proposed NHS reforms are held up by the Coalition committee as well as by the Treasury.

How depressing to see fresh evidence that the great Julian Tudor Hart’s Inverse Care Law remains as true as ever.

‘Tackling inequalities in life expectancy in areas with the worst health and deprivation’, the new report on health inequalities from the National Audit Office deserves your attention.

Hooray for openness, with which the Coalition government has given us a high-earners list.

Basically, anyone pulling down more than PM David Cameron's £150,000 in Non-Departmental Public Bodies (quangos, in the old money) has been added to the highest-paid civil servants list published in early June.

No particular comment about this: we'd all like to earn as much as we can. But the people you want to ensure don't have long pockets and slight hands at the bar next time are: