The Guardian's James Meikle and colleague report the thoroughly good and sensible news that not only can the sons of the man whom a coroner considered Dr Ubani to have unlawfully killed a 'killer', they are equally at liberty to use the word 'charlatan'.

You may remember that Dr Ubani's main area of expertise is in cosmetic surgery; yet he was able to work as a GP for the ironically-named out of hours service Take Care Now.

And so today, NICE is the bad guy for cancer drugs again. Its draft guideline assessment - not final - is that £21,000 is overly expensive for Avastin's ability to stop or shrink tumour growth in patients with advanced bowel cancer, in conjunction with other chemotherapy drugs.

NICE suggests that the usual gain is of six weeks of life. If you accept this figure as a working average, then the cost per week gained is £3,500. Per day, it's £500.

This story about a hypothesis that certain kinds of ill-health including MS and rheumatoid arthritis may be associated with Vitamin D deficiency tickled a memory, and a quick dig around the archives finds that indeed we wrote about this thesis nearly two years ago.

The genetic data looks really interesting. Oliver Gillie must be feeling pretty pleased, and it looks as if he should do.

Hello. Hope you had a good weekend.

PM David Cameron suggests to The Independent that working in the NHS would make you incapable of ever committing a crime, with his wonderful rhetorical question, "If you work in the health service, every time you go to a different hospital you have to have a new Criminal Records Bureau check. Why?"

Irwin Brown of the Socialist Health Association looks with sympathy at the roles and uses of NHS managers and management consultants

I am staggered that Andrew Lansley is staggered at the extent of bureaucracy and the cost of management and management consultants in the NHS.

Where has he been for the past six-and-a-half years?

Received wisdom (with a large invoice)

Well done to The Guardian's social affairs editor Randeep Ramesh, who seems to be first with the figures of the NHS's £300 million management consultancy spend in 2009-10.

Ah, I remember the happy days when it took zillions of FOI requests to find those figures. Now they are collected centrally - and that, folks, is progress.

Clearly there are not enough reviews under way: the DH has announced another, and significant one, on the Clinical Excellence and Distinction Awards for consultants.

This is a subject covered here by Alan Maynard, some months ago.

Not if the fact there were only 300 responses to a survey by the GP freesheet is anything to go by, it would seem.

You can click through above to read the results. What seems quite odd is to have such a low response rate. August and all that, yes. But if that is any kind of proxy indicator of the level of engagaement ahead, there will be trouble. And it will be big.

In the new world of the White Paper, local government is to have a significantly extended say in healthcare and commissioning, as the local democratic aspect once envisaged for PCTs. So this pick-up in today's Telegraph of a management consultancy report that local government staff waste 2/3 of their day might cause a few shivers down Con-Dem spines.

I missed this recent Guardian editorial on PFI, but certainly didn't miss Alan Maynard's witty recent deconstruction of PFI for that parish.