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Below is a transcript of SOS Andrew Lansley's speech this afternoon to the NHS Alliance / NAPC commissioning conference.

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The Commons health select committee continues its good work with the publication of the reports of its first annual accountability hearings with the Care Quality Commission and Monitor.

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This piece in today's Guardian by Denis Campbell prompted me to wonder what exactly is happening to the private sector. It outlines a study by private industry trade paper HealthInvestor.

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As predicted by the Daily Telegraph among others, Secretary Of State For Health Andrew Lansley (saviour, liberator) has backed the recommendation of the Independent Reconfiguration Panel that the A&E and maternity services of Chase Farm should relocate to the No

The DH has published the revised Health Bill impact assessment.

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For the Prime Minister to mislead the House Of Commons (as Health Policy Insight exclusively proved he did over Mark Britnell) once is unfortunate.

To do so twice smacks of carelessness.

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I don't really know what to say about yesterday's debate on the recommitted Health And Social Care Bill. It may be that I have been staring at it for too long, and the wood-for-trees confusion has set in, like rigor mortis. I hope not. It remains important stuff.

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Hansard have got the transcript online for the schedule debate of today's Third Reading of the Health And Social Care Bill, and the debate itself is here.

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The cliche suggests that in polite conversation, one should avoid the subjects of religion and politics - given their potential for polemical positions, supported by great conviction and little evidence.

Maybe talking sanely about the NHS is so hard because it is mired in both.

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