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Editor's blog Monday 13 June 2011: The 'Oops' Factor, Lansleyism as Schrödinger's Cat, the Future Forum and the escape route

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06/13/2011 - 21:05

Oops.

The new polling by ComRes for ITV obviously doesn't take into account the Future Forum's report launch today, but it does cover the period following PM David Cameron's NHS reform reform speech last Tuesday at UCLH.

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Editor's blog Monday 13 June 2011: Future Forum covering document's text

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06/13/2011 - 13:19

www.dh.gov.uk/nhsfutureforum

NHS Future Forum

We have presented our recommendations to the Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Health. We believe they represent a sensible set of amendments to the current Health Bill, and that they are likely to secure a broad consensus around its contents.

Editor's blog Monday 13 June 2011: Monitor and the CCP - the defining issue of amending the Bill

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06/13/2011 - 11:34

There is a potential game-changer in what may be about to happen to Monitor and the NHS Co-Operation and Competition Panel, if the Government proposes to enact what has been outlined in briefings to Health Service Journal.

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Editor's blog Monday 13 June 2011: The political NHS and the real NHS

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06/13/2011 - 09:06

There is the political NHS, and then there is the real NHS.

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Click here for details of 'Strongman Cameron's J-turn on NHS reform: neo-classical clinical senates (or what did the Romans ever do for us?)', the new issue of subscription-based Health Policy Intelligence.

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Editor's blog Friday 10 June 2011: Health Policy Intelligence 11, 'Strongman Cameron's J-turn on NHS reform' out now

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06/10/2011 - 17:55

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The eleventh issue, 'Strongman Cameron's J-turn on NHS reform - neo-classical clinical senates, or what did the Romans ever do for us?', is now out.

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Editor's blog Friday 10 June 2011: More on wonderfully humble, self-effacing Sir Stephen Bubb

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06/10/2011 - 14:37

A reader (to whom Team Health Policy Insight's grateful thanks) emails editorial AT healthpolicyinsight.com with more information on the fascinating political hinterland of wonderfully shy, self-effacing Sir Stephen John Limrick Bubb JP.

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Editor's blog Friday 10 June 2011: The wonderful humility of self-effacing Sir Stephen Bubb

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06/10/2011 - 11:25

I had heard of ACEVO before the NHS Future Forum was convened as part of the Pinteresque Pause, but alas its chief executive Sir Stephen Bubb was unknown to me.

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Click here for details of 'The meat raffle and the King Of Skiffle - Does Your Health Bill Lose Its Flavour On The Bedpost Overnight?', the new issue of subscription-based Health Policy Intelligence.

Editor's blog Thursday 9 June 2011: Text of BMA GPC chair Dr Laurence Buckman LMC speech

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06/09/2011 - 13:12

Speech by BMA GPC chair Dr Laurence Buckman at LMC Conference

Who here is worried about the future of the NHS?

Because I am.

This time last year I stood here and said that the times were exciting and worrying. Back then we were at the beginning of a new venture in democracy with a government which made much of wanting to engage with GPs. Yet we knew that, financially, times were extremely tough.

Editor's blog Wednesday 8 June 2011: Text of yesterday's Commons health questions / Winterborne View statement

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06/08/2011 - 22:19

House Of Commons health questions 7 June 2011 and Winterborne View statement

HEALTH

The Secretary of State was asked—

NHS Financial Performance
2. Nigel Adams (Selby and Ainsty) (Con): What assessment he has made of the financial performance of the NHS in 2010-11; and if he will make a statement. [57812]

Editor's blog Wednesday 8 June 2011: Text of today's PMQs

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06/08/2011 - 21:21

Today's Prime Minister's Questions - text courtesy of Hansard. 8 June 2011

Edward Miliband: Why has he made such a mess of his health plans?

The Prime Minister: Yes, we are having a review of the plans that we announced on health: we want to get them right. I have to say again that there has been widespread support for the review of our health plans, not least from the man sitting four down from the right hon. Gentleman, the shadow Health Secretary—I know I often quote him—who said that

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