Among the people probably feeling vindicated by the ongoing fall-out from regulation is former Healthcare Commission and CQC inspector Dr Heather Wood.

Her second statement to the Francis Public Inquiry into Mid-Staffs is well worth reading.

Don't worry: I have already alerted the Office of Fair Trading to the news that Comrade Sir David Nicholson, NHS England supremo, has decided to pitch his tanks on my lawn with his first blog, on negative media perceptions of the NHS.

This competition on NHS policy and politics - hitherto pretty much my monopsony - is in the spirit of the age: 'o tempora, o mores'.

Health Service Journal has the CQC's letter to Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt naming the four senior CQC staff at the meeting at which the decision to cover up the internal Morecambe Bay report was made.

Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the King's horses and all the King's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again.

Oh dear.

There are a finite number of health policy moves, it would seem. Today, the CQC announced a Patient's Charter.

Obviously, it would be unfair to suggest that the Patient's Charter will be strongly in favour of good things and resolutely against bad things.

It really needs a clinician to write this piece about the decision to kick back the IRP on children's heart surgery, and a clinician is one of the many things I am not. There we go.

Closing time is rarely punters' favourite bit of the evening in a pub, though the staff are quite keen on it. Closing time in the NHS manages to unite the punters and the staff against it.

Children’s Heart Surgery
12.35 pm

The Secretary of State for Health (Mr Jeremy Hunt):
With permission, Mr Speaker, I would like to make a statement on the Safe and Sustainable review of children’s congenital heart services.

In the words of Lenny Kravitz, "it ain't over till it's over".

Comrade Sir David's life in exile after abdication (ah, Moe Tucker, from Velvet Underground drummer to Tea Partier - now that's a case of 'how are the mighty fallen') looks tricky.

Notes from a press session with Dr David Bennett, chief executive, Monitor

Q: What is your reaction to the suggestion in Sir David Nicholson’s HSJ interview of potentially bringing together purchasers and providers?

David Bennett: I only know what I read in HSJ of his comments. We already have some providers doing commissioning, where they subontract work to other providers.