Today’s Daily Telegraph carries a briefing of the five pledges on the NHS that PM David Cameron is set to make in a speech tomorrow.

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Those of you who follow Health Policy Insight on Twitter (@HPIAndyCowper) will be familiar with our tireless campaign for #SimonBurns4SOS.

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If we needed reminding that quality regulation in the NHS is unfit for purpose, then the ongoing Mid-Staffs public inquiry and the recent BBC Panorama undercover documentary into abuse at Castlebeck’s Winterborne View residential hospital provides all we could need.

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The Daily Telegraph has this article from Andrew Lansley and also a commentary piece by their political editor Andrew Porter and health correspondent Martin Beckford.

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As the Secretary Of State For The Time Being's planned NHS reform gets kicked even further from its place in the long grass into The Pampas Grass Of No Return, now is the moment to acknowledge that the Nicholson Health Service [about which Health Policy Insight has written last July; again last July; last November; last December;

This guest editorial by Nick De Bois, Conservative MP for Enfield North, outlines his views on what should be the non-negotiable aspects for his party of the proposed reforms to the Health And Social Care Bill.

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Your responses to our competition on Twitter for a title for the new Command Paper gave me a bit of a headache, in a good and entirely appropriate way.

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Professor Alan Maynard suggests that Health Secretary Andrew Lansley is not so bad, and that the current financial crisis means pay and pharma prices need much closer attention.

Is the current Secretary of State For Health so bad?

Reviewing the history of the NHS over the last 15 years, you can identify Secretaries of State who actively sought to improve the NHS. Three figures stand out, although you may not particularly like them and the policies they pursued: Alan Milburn, Patricia Hewitt and Andrew Lansley.

Congratulations to Dave West of Health Service Journal for breaking the news that the DH plans to issue a new Command Paper.

Yes, that's right.

One year; two Command Papers; no Bill.

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