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 Impact assessment on policy on GP commissioning red-rated twice in succession as unfit for purpose
 Impact assessment on policy on 'provision - provider liberalisation, economic regulation and joint licensing' red-rated as unfit for purpose once; amber-rated after changes
 DH fails on almost 50% of policy impact assessments; a further 40% must be changed

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Text of this week's health questions in the House Of Commons, from Hansard.

The Secretary of State was asked—

NHS Funding
Karl McCartney (Lincoln) (Con): What arrangements are in place to ensure increased funding for the NHS during the comprehensive spending review period. [65106]

The turf wars have been won and lost, and the four SHA clusters finalised.

Lines have been drawn on maps.

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It is as if someone is deliberately trying to make my swearing detox fail. A conspiracy theorist would see clear provocation.

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The below statement has just been released by Monitor. It seems no applicants made the grade.

The uncertain shadow of the Health And Social Care Bill looms on ...

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It"s my fault, apparently. This system-wide, top-down reorganisation, bringing redundancies, confusion, the pausing of a Bill after its second reading - is all down to me.

Andrew Lansley said so in his speech to the NHS Confederation Conference, so it must be true.

Comrade Sir David also told the conference that "commentators and bloggers were telling the NHS it couldn't deliver", so I'm obviously guilty as charged of demotivating the NHS as well.

Shit. Sorry about that, the NHS. I'll buy you a pint.

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This has been a busy year for the NHS.

Apparently I'm not allowed to use the word 'insane', so I have to say 'busy'. It's political correctness gone mad!

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