- 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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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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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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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.

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.

Professor Alan Maynard gets back to the real issues of NHS reform: funding and quality control.

The protracted “listening exercise”, with everyone paying too much attention to the trivia of reform and the protracted machinations of the Forum and sundry pathetic politicians offering ambiguity, has disguised two underlying maladies: funding and quality control.

These twin forces could seriously undermine the NHS.

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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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

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.

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