Awesome timing was on show by whoever leaked the NHS Bill transition risk register and the business case to Dr Phil Hammond, who put them up on his website.

The risk register was also sent to Roy Lilley, who published it at his NHS Managers website.

I come late and very sadly to the news that Steve Collins died suddenly at the start of this month.

I found out thanks to this moving blog about Steve by the lovely Yvonne Coghill of the NHS Institute's Breaking Through programme, highlighted on Twitter by HSJ editor Alastair McLellan.

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Irwin Brown of the Socialist Health Association signs off in the last of his series of guest editorials, looking at the skirmishes won in a lost war.

It has been a depressing time dealing with the hated H&SC Bill. We had the better arguments, better advice, and better lawyers - and at the end we had all the support - but it was never enough to overcome political expediency.

Yesterday I read and retweeted this blog piece by the New Statesman's political editor Rafael Behr, which claims that Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg was dissuaded by PM That Nice Mr Cameron from putting the Health Bill out of its misery during the 'pause'.

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The DH has published the evaluation it commissioned from RAND / Ernst & Young of the integrated care projects pilots.

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From Bill-Killing to blamestorming: how The Health And Social Care Act 2012 will define all three main Westminster parties for a decade

The House of Lords today rejected both Lord Owen's motion to delay and Baroness Thornton's motion to dismiss. The Health And Social Care Bill thus passed back to the House of Commons from the House of Lords and (after a spot of potential ping-pong tomorrow) will become law.

Andrew Lansley (saviour, liberator) thus has his Bill.

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Today's guest editorial comes from health policy and strategy consultant Joe Farrington-Douglas, former health policy special advisor to shadow health secretary John Healey MP.

On Friday, the Courts dismissed the Government's attempt to keep the NHS reform risk register secret, but the Department of Health has already said it will delay its response until after the Health Bill has been passed by Parliament.

The text of Baroness Williams' Liberal Democrat Spring Conference motion this weekend has been published by Lib Dem councillor Gareth Epps.

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It is late

I am tired, and I have writer's block.

So here are a bunch of links to stuff I wrote about a year ago.

I am not the world's greatest self-publicist or self-praiser, but some of these are not at all bad.

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