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Editor's blog Friday 17 June 2011 'Pausing' the Guardian LiveBlog

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06/17/2011 - 08:37

After today, The Guardian's NHS reform LiveBlog is to take a well-earned 'pause' in its near-minute-by-minute coverage of the NHS reforms.

It will be continuing, and may burst back into full 'live' at future moments of policy drama. of which we can be confident there will be not a few.

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Editor's blog Thursday 16 June 2011 EXCLUSIVE: 10 SHAs clustering to 4 by October. And 8 commissioning support units?

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06/16/2011 - 10:53

- Current 10 SHAs will cluster to four 'super'-SHAs by October 2011
- These four bodies set to form regional 'arms' of the NHS Commissioning Board

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Editor's blog Thursday 16 June 2011: Dr Milburn, Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The J-Turn

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06/15/2011 - 22:45

I occasionally think, 'I quite miss Alan Milburn'.

Perhaps it was the character-forming near-vomiting-on-him experience at my very first NHS Confederation conference; or maybe it was just The Gravity-Averse Quiff Of Doom.

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Editor's blog Wednesday 15 June 2011: Interview with Professor Nick Bosanquet on progress towards 'The Bosanquet Hypothesis'

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06/15/2011 - 15:29

Health economist and policy commentator Professor Nick Bosanquet of Imperial College, who chairs Volterra Health, has for some time warned publicly that the NHS faces a cash crisis on 1 November 2011.

He discusses the current economic issues and implications with Health Policy Insight editor Andy Cowper.

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Guest editorial Wednesday 15 June 2011: Eliminating ‘cherry-picking’

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06/15/2011 - 15:14

Dermot O’Riordan, Consultant Surgeon and Medical Director of West Suffolk Hospital and member of the NHS Future Forum, outlines the crucial case for the NHS reforms to successfully eliminate ‘cherry-picking’.

When I joined the Future Forum I specifically asked to join the panel on choice and competition. This is an area that I feel is critical, and I wanted to ensure that there was an acute trust voice represented in the discussions.

Editor's blog Wednesday 15 June 2011: The Conservative Home view of NHS reform-squared's winners and losers

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06/15/2011 - 08:56

Good morning. Bit busy today, so this is a signpost to Tim Montgomerie's excellent analysis on Conservative Home of the winners and losers of the NHS reform-squared debacle. (If any further changes are made in Committee, we get reform-cubed, and any in the Lords will be reform-disco: four on the floor).

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Editor's blog Tuesday 14 June 2011: The next stage of NHS reform - the J-turn, bureaucrats and the CCP

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06/14/2011 - 13:46

Here are some things we have learned from the latest stage in the reform of NHS reform.

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1. This is a J-turn

Editor's blog Tuesday 14 June 2011: Text of PM's speech on Government response to NHS Future Forum

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06/14/2011 - 12:46

PM David Cameron's speech at Guys Hospital on NHS reform

Ten weeks ago we pressed pause on our NHS reforms.

We wanted to speak to professionals, patients and everyone who cares about the NHS, and make sure our proposals were absolutely right.

Now there were those who said this was a humiliating U-turn, that we were back-tracking and ditching all our plans.

Editor's blog Tuesday 14 June 2011: Government response to NHS Future Forum reports

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06/14/2011 - 10:42

Not on the DH website, but here on HSJ.

Text of Government response:

GOVERNMENT CHANGES IN RESPONSE TO THE NHS FUTURE FORUM

The following list summarises the key changes that we intend to make, largely structured around the four workstream themes considered by the NHS Future Forum. Some, but not all, of these changes require amendments to the Health and Social Care Bill.

Overall NHS accountability

NHS Constitution

Editor's blog Tuesday 14 June 2011: Five questions that should be asked at today's 'Winning The Reform Of The NHS Reforms' event

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06/14/2011 - 09:46

Here are five questions that ought to be asked at today's 'Flogging A Dead Bill' session at mid-day with the Prime Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister and the Secretary Of State For Health.

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