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Editor's blog Thursday 7 July 2011: The (real) text of Andrew Lansley's speech to NHS Confederation Conference

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07/07/2011 - 14:12

This has been a busy year for the NHS.

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Over this past twelve months, we’ve seen:
• breast and bowel cancer screening – expanding ahead of schedule,
• MRSA down 17% - C.diff down 15%,

Editor's blog Thursday 7 July 2011: The first leak is the deepest: Andrew Lansley's speech to NHS Confederation Conference

Publish Date/Time: 
07/07/2011 - 07:03

Health Secretary Andrew Lansley – Speech to the NHS Confederation conference, Manchester Thursday 7 July 2011

Under embargo to 17.00, 7.7.11

Check against delivery

Thank you Sarah, and thanks to Mike and all the team at the NHS Confederation for inviting me to be with you today.

It’s great to be here with you in Manchester, where the NHS was born 63 three years ago at Trafford General Hospital, under what many people now accept was a Coalition Government, led by a Conservative former Prime Minister.

I mean, the great Winston Churchill didn’t lose his seat in 1945.

Editor's blog Wednesday 6 July 2011: Text of Mike Farrar's speech to NHS Confederation Conference

Publish Date/Time: 
07/06/2011 - 13:22

(Video footage of the speech will be available through this link.)

Editor's blog Tuesday 5 July 2011: Will changing SOS's "duty to provide" permit sale of goodwill?

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07/05/2011 - 14:02

I forget about things, which is one way of making life more exciting.

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Editor's blog Monday 4 July 2011: Lansley's six social care tests; any more use than his four reconfiguration tests?

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07/04/2011 - 16:44

The excellent Guardian Politics LiveBlog main man Andrew Sparrow cleverly picked out the bones of Andrew Lansley's Commons statement in response to the Dilnot report on social care and its funding.

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Guest editorial Monday 4 July 2011: Not bothered by the advent of Market Stalinism

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07/04/2011 - 10:59

Irwin Brown of the Socialist Health Association welcomes the advent of Market Stalinism to the NHS.

I was worried and even more confused when I read the latest amendments to the revised, revised Bill.

No longer – I have seen the light.

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Editor's blog Friday 1 July 2011: Health Policy Intelligence 14 Forward, the information-light brigade! In praise of Simon Burns

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07/01/2011 - 16:59

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The fourteenth issue, 'Forward, the information-light brigade! Let us now praise Simon Burns', is now out.

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Editor's blog Friday 1 July 2011: Hansard of Bill Commmittee and PMQs

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07/01/2011 - 14:16

Links to yesterday's sessions of the Bill Committee are here and here.

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Editor's blog Thursday 30 June 2011: The ten Tweets of NHS reform

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06/30/2011 - 08:37

The micro-blogging website Twitter, where I am to be found as @HPIAndyCowper, is proving itself a useful and amusing medium for micro-sized, 140-character-limited, health policy conversations.

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Editor's blog Wednesday 29 June 2011: Recommitted Health Bill: key quotes from the 21st century Dada

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06/29/2011 - 13:03

Words cannot do justice to the sheer surrealism of the recommitted Health Bill committee evidence session yesterday.

Fortunately, the wonderful people who do Hansard have the transcript of the morning session available here, and of the afternoon session here.

Thank you, Hansard people. You are lovely.

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