Those of you who follow Health Policy Insight on Twitter (@HPIAndyCowper) will be familiar with our tireless campaign for #SimonBurns4SOS.

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If we needed reminding that quality regulation in the NHS is unfit for purpose, then the ongoing Mid-Staffs public inquiry and the recent BBC Panorama undercover documentary into abuse at Castlebeck’s Winterborne View residential hospital provides all we could need.

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The Daily Telegraph has this article from Andrew Lansley and also a commentary piece by their political editor Andrew Porter and health correspondent Martin Beckford.

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As the Secretary Of State For The Time Being's planned NHS reform gets kicked even further from its place in the long grass into The Pampas Grass Of No Return, now is the moment to acknowledge that the Nicholson Health Service [about which Health Policy Insight has written last July; again last July; last November; last December;

This guest editorial by Nick De Bois, Conservative MP for Enfield North, outlines his views on what should be the non-negotiable aspects for his party of the proposed reforms to the Health And Social Care Bill.

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Click here for details of 'A political rugby ball and Command Paper II - the reform of NHS reform gets party-political', the new issue of subscription-based Health Policy Intelligence.

Your responses to our competition on Twitter for a title for the new Command Paper gave me a bit of a headache, in a good and entirely appropriate way.

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Click here for details of 'A political rugby ball and Command Paper II - the reform of NHS reform gets party-political', the new issue of subscription-based Health Policy Intelligence.

Congratulations to Dave West of Health Service Journal for breaking the news that the DH plans to issue a new Command Paper.

Yes, that's right.

One year; two Command Papers; no Bill.

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Health Policy Intelligence is our weekly subscription-based analysis service.

The ninth issue, 'A political rugby ball and Command Paper II – The reform of NHS reform gets party political', is now out.

Health Policy Intelligence is not available as free content. Subscription costs £8 a month / £69 a year for an individual. Increasing discounts are available to organisations wanting to subscribe for groups of more than 5 and 10 individuals.

Hats off to Nick Watt, Guardian political editor, for obtaining an email from wholly sane Conservative backbencher Nick DeBois MP setting out some Conservative red lines on the changes to the Bill.

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