Here are five questions that ought to be asked at today's 'Flogging A Dead Bill' session at mid-day with the Prime Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister and the Secretary Of State For Health.

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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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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.

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

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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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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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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.

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]