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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Health economist Professor Alan Maynard outlines recent research into changeovers of the new staff – the July effect – and suggests that killing patients is wrong.

The mortality and morbidity effects of being admitted to hospital as a patient out of usual working hours in the week and over the weekend have been well chronicled for decades, At those times, you have a higher risk of dying and having serious morbidity effects if you survive. This is a product of staffing, delays in diagnostics and delays in treatment.

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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Health economist Professor Alan Maynard on proper design and regulation of any competition system, David Nicholson’s bullshit and Adam Smith’s truth.

Ray Kroc, the founder of the McDonalds obesity-inducing (if eaten incessantly) fast-food chain, was once asked asked what he would do if he saw a rival drowning. He is alleged to have replied, “stick a hose in his mouth”.

This is a nice example of competition red in tooth and claw which opponents use to throw the competition baby out with the bathwater.

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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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%,