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Health Policy Intelligence Issue 51 – 6 November 2012

I’m A Health Secretary? Get Me Out Of Here!

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This guest editorial from Irwin Brown of the Socialist Health Association examines the draft recommendations of the Trust Special Administrator on the future of South London Healthcare NHS Trust.

South London – more of the same

We highlighted previously that the long-running British Social Attitudes survey and the NHS staff survey found that staff and the public had pretty dim views of the advisability and feasibility of the current NHS reforms.

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At the risk of making myself persona numquam grata among the elite of the health policy universe, I must confess that today, I felt slightly sorry for Jeremy 'Bellflinger' Hunt.

I am beginning to think that he may be the Norman Puddifoot of Health Secretaries.

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Last night, I went to a meeting about 'making the NHS a world-class customer service'.

Which was nice.

Unfortunately, it was only announced when I got there that the event was being held under the Chatham House Rule. So I can't tell you who the senior person there present was.

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It is worth recording that yet again, amid chaos, QIPP and the tragic loss of Simon Burns to transport, the NHS has performed brilliantly on waiting times, driving down very long waits even further.

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Health Service Journal breaks the story that Health Secretary Jeremy 'Bellflinger' Hunt has appointed a policy and political special adviser, Sam Talbot Rice.

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I was amused by former Labour clinical adviser Dr David Kerr's piece in today's Guardian about why he agreed to become the Conservatives' clinical policy adviser, but fell out of love with Andrew Lansley's top-down redisorganisation.

(Kerr should advise the Lib Dems next, just to get the full set.)

In his piece, Kerr described the reforms as 'Heath Robinson'.

Which is a nice line.

With thanks to Politics Home, here is the text of PM David Cameron's speech to the Conservative Party conference today.

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