The Radcliffe paediatric surgery review is published here.

One-liner - the service is suspended until it can be safe - i.e. probably forever. Preface and exec summary copied below.

Preface

The Telegraph has an authentic-looking leak of the Oxford paediatric heart surgery review

The Guardian has some union-led outrage about the cost of interim managers at Dorset General Hospital FT.

Unbelievable.

Well, that'll be the end of all discussion about Ubani's proven incompetence, then.

Until now, I'd never really thought about Andrew Lansley in relation to the Fairy With Turquoise Hair from Pinocchio. Carlo Collodi wrote the original Pinocchio tale between 1881 and 1883.

You know the story: Gepetto, the puppetmaker, carves himself a marionette called Pinocchio, who comes to life, and has a series of adventures until he learns to be unselfish and, as reward, is turned into a real little boy by the Fairy With Turquoise Hair.

Irwin Brown of the Socialist Health Association reflects on an alternative to Equity and Excellence.

On the face of it, the aim of the current government is the same as that of the previous one - to keep our model of NHS. We all apparently agree the basic design, but “reform” is necessary to deliver world-class outcomes and better patient experience whilst reducing the level of funding.

’Jazz hands’ presentational maestro Tony Blair spent a decade at the top of British politics. He gave a presentation to the Institute For Government a month ago, and I finally got round to reading the transcript.

I'm not going to say much about the following series of quotes from the Khyra Ishaq Serious Case Review.

I am sure that I cannot understand how difficult it must be to deal with people being deliberately obstructive about access to ensure their children's health.

I think that I will just say that I'm writing this with a full stomach, and I hope you are reading it with the same. Khyra Ishaq starved to death in the sixth largest economy in the world.

Two quotes stick out from the executive summary of the thoughtful and thorough-looking Extent and causes of international variations in drug usage report by cancer czar Professor Mike Richards for the SoS, published today by the DH.

“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast”.
The White Queen, Through The Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll

I expect an organisation whose very name announces an intention of independence to live up to its promise. It's not idealism; just the Ronseal Test - it should do what it says on the tin.

The provider regulation consultation is here, and not only promises to abolish foundation trusts' private patient income cap as trailed, it also abolishes their statutory borrowing limit.

What could possibly go wrong with that?

The press release promises that the consultation "makes the case for releasing foundation trusts so we have the most vibrant social enterprise sector anywhere in the world.".

It proposes: