You probably could make this up, but you'd need a scriptwriter who'd taken some pretty hefty narcotics.

In the new interview podcast for Doctors Net UK, Health Secretary Andrew Lansley CBE MP makes one of the most unintentionally hilarious promises imaginable.

There has been much question over whether and how Lansleyism would keep its pre-electoral promises that, in David Cameron's phrase "those targets you hate, they're gone".

Oh dear. Oh dear oh dear.

The BMA's LMC conference has escaped, into the real world.

Whatever is said at the LMC conference has to be taken with a pound of salt. This is where the BMA talks to itself.

Unfortunately, they invite or press release all of the trade press; not just Pulse and Healthcare Republic

Former Conservative Health Secretary 1995-97 Stephen Dorrell MP is the new chair of the influential House of Commons Health Select Committee.

Dorrell was elected by a big majority of the vote among MPs, beating Nadine Dorries in the second, transferable voting round.

"Bring me sunshine ..."

During his statement on the new Mid-Staffordshire inquiry, Health Secretary Andrew Lansley CBE MP gave the Black Spot to the 4-hour maximum waiting time target in A&E – with the proviso “as it currently stands”.

It is a fascinating decision, and not one without political and clinical risks.

Professor Alan Maynard OBE notes the lack of evidence for the 30-day unpaid emergency acute readmission policy, and politicians’ and policymakers’ poor use of evidence more broadly.

Politicians in all parties advocate the use of evidence in making difficult policy decisions.

The new DH press release reports Health Secretary Andrew Lansley CBE MP's keeping his promise, made in opposition, to grant a public inquiry into the events of Mid-Staffs. Its terms of reference are here.

So what is Lansleyism?
Now that at last the DH have put it online, we can review 'My ambition for patient-centred care' - the new Health Secretary's first major speech on the NHS.

Lansleyism, as we shall call it, starts with a commendable focus on achieving “health outcomes – and quality health services – as good as any in the world … a unique combination of equity and excellence, including for the most vulnerable”.

In the light of my recent comments about management consultants, I turned with interest to the new KPMG report – ‘Payment For Success’.

The Health Secretary's widely-trailed speech is allegedly now available online here.

Mmm. Except this is just a press release. Will get the working link for you as soon as it's there.

Analysis and commentary will then follow.

Update: 16.31 Just chased with DH press office, who promised to email me a copy; instead, they emailed the press release and a covering note saying it will be up "shortly" on DH site.

I think I may just be able to see an unintended consequence or two in Health Secretary Andrew Lansley CBE MP's new policy announcement today of fines for hospitals whose patients are readmitted as an emergency within 30 days, announced in today's Guardian.

Let us assume that the fines will not be negligible sums. (Let us do so because if they are negligible, people will pay them, and the policy will be discredited and ignored very fast).