Here are some observations on the inaugural public speech of Jeremy 'Bellflinger' Hunt as Health Secretary at the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham.

I have two top-line thoughts. Hunt's speech emphasises financial discipline and care quality discipline as being equally P45-inducing for NHS managers.

Managers are adept Kremlinologists (this is, after all, the Nicholson Health Service), and will notice that save for one mention of the welcome cut to very long waiting times, access did not get a mention.

With thanks to the Politics.co.uk website, the text of Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt's speech to the Conservative Party conference follows below.

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The whole Times interview with The Bellflinger, Jeremy Hunt, is now online, and hopefully outside the paywall.

It is really quite special.

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Goodness me. The 'Hunt Jeremy' game is well and truly over.

Sam Coates, Rachel Sylvester and Alice Thompson of The Times reveal that The Bellflinger's idea of a low-key eve of conference interaction with the media is to call for the abortion time limit to be reduces to 12 weeks.

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We might be getting our first glimpse of Huntism in this interview for Tory in-flight magazine The Spectator.

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Andy Burnham's speech to the Labour Party conference today (now online) has been fairly extensively briefed to the media.

We may call him The Mascara Kid, but he's obviously not into concealer.

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The text of Ed Miliband's 'look, no notes' speech to the Labour Party conference this afternoon doesn't yet seem to be online anywhere I can see, but these paraphrase-quotes from The Guardian liveblog seem useful (UPDATE - BBC News clip of the speech is now up):

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Speech at 20-20 Health fringe event, Lib Dem party conference

The 20-20 Health think-tank invited me to speak to their fringe meeting at the Liberal Democrat party conference about what clinicians will be doing now they’re running the NHS.

This is what I said.

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In the interest of fairness, following recently linking to a blog questioning Health Minister Dr Daniel Poulter's comments about hours worked, I am linking to a response he gave to an Ipswich website.

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This guest editorial by PCT Cassander, one of the wittiest and best-informed commentators on health policy and its discontents, discusses the potential abuses and uses of data to improve health services.

I had to read George Orwell's 1984 at secondary school. I remember laughing archly with the other quiet, bookish types in my year at the irony of being forced to read a book about totalitarianism.