Hats off as ever to the brilliant folk at Hansard for the transcript below, which I follow with three observations.

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Click here for details of 'PM Cameron - Mr Lansley's "as one" or assassin?', the new issue of subscription-based Health Policy Intelligence.

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The 'save Our Saviour And Liberator Andrew Lansley' campaign is not blessed with conspicuous media-savvy.

The BBC is being briefed that the NHS Future Forum made no difference (which they could have read about here at the time).

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I'd forgotten how much fun a bit of Health Bill action can be.

The battle of the bylines continues, after this morning's not-very-good-for-morale Times car crash.

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Valentine's Day is a week today, and it looks as if some of the Tory High Command are getting their Massacre in early.

Briefing from inside Number 10 Downing Street provides a fascinating column on Andrew Lansley in The Times by political journalist Rachel Sylvester.

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I'm grateful to National Voices on Twitter for reminding me of the excellent Don Berwick 10-point plan for healthcare reform, which he delivered to NHS Live in 2008.

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I am very grateful to a longstanding reader for sending in the following analysis of a potential way through this week for the Coalition Government over the Health And Social Care Bill (which I believe we can now officially designate as "in trouble").

[I have added links and explanations where I hope they are helpful to illustrate the situation, and the short conclusion at the end is also mine.]

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The DH has published its briefing notes on the latest (incomplete) proposed amendments to the Health And Social Care Bill. Please note that all amendment numbers in this document relate to the list published on the DH website on February 1, 2012

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Dear old Minister Who? Paul Burstow did not have the most successful of appearances recently giving evidence to the Health Select Committee inquiry on social care.

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I am grateful that a kindly mole has felt the need to share a document outlining an anticipated timescale and various possible scenarios for the remainder of the Health Bill's passage in Parliament.

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Click here for details of 'Taking the pith out of the Health & Social Care Bill - “Integrate my chutzpah”, says Andrew ‘Not Looking For A Fight’ Lansley', the new issue of subscription-based Health Policy Intelligence.

Today saw the publication of ’The NHS deserves a better, more open debate over health reform’, a joint editorial by the editors of the British Medical Journal, Nursing Times and Health Service Journal.

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