The Hansard text of Labour's opposition day debate on NHS reform is now online.

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Click here for details of 'Chairman Mal - the Bill is completely unintelligible', the new issue of subscription-based Health Policy Intelligence.

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It has long been clear that the Health And Social Care Bill and its associated White Paper and policy development process will be taught in schools of government as a 'how not to do it' case study for many years to come.

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The new issue, '“The Bill is completely unintelligible” - Chairman Mal nearly talks himself out of a job', is now out.

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The DH Annual Accounts 2010-11 is a compelling read, obviously.

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Click here for details of 'Chairman Mal - the Bill is completely unintelligible', the new issue of subscription-based Health Policy Intelligence.

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This guest editorial from Irwin Brown of the Socialist Health Association considers the historical context of the Secretary Of State For Health's role in providing or securing provision of NHS healthcare.

The debate about the role of the Secretary of State for Health is significant, but in many ways only symbolic.

The role of the Secretary of State is a proxy for the kind of NHS we have.

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A deal has been done in the Lords.

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Click here for details of 'NCB chair to give Comrade Sir David a run for his roubles - few Lords a-leaping as the meek shall inherit the Bill', the new issue of subscription-based Health Policy Intelligence.

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"Like blood, healthcare is too precious, intimate and corruptible to entrust to the market" - Woolhandler & Himmelstein, 'When Money is the Mission –The High Cost of Investor-Owned Care', New England Journal of Medicine, 1999

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The below quotes are extracts from NHS Commissioning Board chair Professor Malcolm Grant's pre-confirmation health select committee appearance. The whole (uncorrected) transcript follows below.

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The Commons health select committee has confirmed the appointment of Professor Malcolm Grant as the first chair of the NHS Commissioning Board.

This is despite his describing the Health And Social Care Bill in his oral evidence session as "unintelligible".

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