Dr Sam Everington, famous for the innovative Bromley-By-Bow Health Centre, has written to the PM asking him to withdraw the Health And Social Care Bill on behalf of Tower Hamlets CCG, which Everington leads.

Pulse has obtained a copy of the letter, which can be read here.

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The splendid Politics Home has obtained the text of the letter to Lib Dem peers by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and Baroness Williams.

It follows below, with the bullshitometer results in italics.

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The NHS Commissioning Board's director of finance-designate is Paul Baumann, currently director of finance of NHS London.

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The DH publishes its capability assessment of the Care Quality Commission and to the considerable surprise of absolutely nobody, Cynthia Bower resigns.

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The FT's indefatigable data diva Sally Gainsbury and public policy editor Sarah Neville have just dropped a striking story, based on an exclusive interview with FT regulator Monitor's chair and acting CE Dr David Bennett.

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Professor John Ashton is a distinguished public servant and public health doctor. I have met Professor Ashton: he is a good guy.

He has unfortunately recently come on the receiving end of some NHS management 'heavy manners'.

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There's a really good Keith Richards bootleg of him playing piano, doing (All I Have To Do Is) Dream, Apartment Number Nine, The Nearness Of You ... it's truly great.

It's got a great title, too: 'Bad Habits'.

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via the ever-magnificent Hansard.

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Health
The Secretary of State was asked—

PFI Debt (NHS Hospitals)
1. Chris Kelly (Dudley South) (Con):

It doesn't get any better for poor old viral-prone Andrew Lansley (saviour, liberator).

He monumentally mishandled an encounter with a protestor outside Downing Street, smirking and failing to engage on a heroic scale.

The debacle was fast-compared on Twitter to this classic extract from BBC TV satire The Thick Of It, where a protestor asks the hapless minister about "cleaning up your own mother's piss".

10 Downing Street preparing for round-table non-summit 20.2.2012 - health reforms.

(None of this really happened. Obviously.)

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