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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"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better."
Samuel Beckett, 'Worstward Ho'

It has been a long time coming, and next Tuesday and Wednesday's second reading debate for the recommitted Health And Social Care Bill is very, very near.

But at last the DH has published the proposals for a failure regime for FTs, including Monitor's suggested role in the process.

The effective campaign group 38 Degrees has turned its digital guns on NHS reforms, with their commissioning and publication of legal opinions on the impact of the change to the 1948 wording that the Secretary Of State For Health's "duty to provide or secure the provision of" a comprehensive tax-funded health service free at the point of use based on clinical need.

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Professor Alan Maynard looks at the growing health problems created by obesity, and wonders when Government will start to get serious about addressing it.

Companies make money out of making people fat and unhealthy. International organisations such as McDonalds, Nestles, Kraft, Walkers Crisps (owned by Pepsi) and Coca-Cola feed our desire for sugar, fat, salt and indolence, inducing over-feeding.

Thus we, the people, are getting steadily fatter.

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The French multinational Atos are key players in the Department for Work and Pensions' disability assessment / return to work programme.

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