Mike Hobday, Macmillan Cancer Research Head of Campaigns, Policy and Public Affairs, suggests that the efficiency gain £20 billion nettle can be grasped alongside reconfiguration, if we deploy the NHS’s key under-used asset: co-production with patients.

This guest editorial by Julian Tyndale-Biscoe, MD of InHealth Communications, wonders whether citizen panels offer a viable workaround to the questions of clinical commissioners’ accountability and politics.

I know two GPs who are polar opposites of each other. They work less than a mile apart.

The battle for the credit for ‘saving the NHS reform’ resumes, in the wake of Prime Minister David ‘Shabba’ Cameron’s Monday ‘vajazzle-dazzle’ speech.

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Much of what we need to know about the Kings Fund's new report into leadership and management is there on the front cover, in three simple words of its sub-heading - 'no more heroes'. I'm assuming there is a Stranglers fan in the publications team somewhere.

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Secretary Of State For The Time Being Andrew Lansley has not become The Invisible Man: he is due to make an appearance tomorrow, at the Kings Fund leadership and management event.

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KPMG's Global Head Of Health Dr Mark Britnell has rather become the story since his Health Service Journal opinion piece on debating NHS funding.

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Well, that was a day. PM David Cameron repositioned himself as the Shabba Ranks of the NHS.

He loves the NHS, you know. Loves it. Lovedy-love-love-love—double-love-no-returns-back.

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The text of the PM's speech is online here.

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A few quick thoughts.

1. That man can read an autocue with aplomb.

PRIME MINISTER’S SPEECH ON THE NHS

16th MAY 2011

Six weeks ago, we announced a pause in our plans for the modernisation of the health service.

Since then there’s been a whole flurry of debate.

Column inches have been written. Concerns aired. Passions raised.

That goes to show something I’ve known all along: that the NHS is the most important thing to Britain’s families.

Well, let me tell you this.

It’s the most important thing to my family too.

Goodness me. This speech that PM David Cameron is to give tomorrow morning at a hospital in West London looks amusing. If the Telegraph's briefing is right, which I think we can assume it is.

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