Professor Steve Field, chair of the listening pause, had a private meeting this morning with members of the House Of Commons Health Select Committee, which was not listed on the committee website.

I learned about this meeting from a tweet from Labour MP and committee member Grahame Morris.

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“The need for new supporters is a mathematical fact – we will not be able to implement a Conservative manifesto in full unless we get a bigger share of the vote than we did last time … Headline voting intention figures in the polls obscure the fact that the Conservative Party has in fact lost close to one in eight of its voters from 2010. The reason the Tories still retain a share in the mid-thirties rather than the high twenties is that they have won over a section of the electorate which did not vote Conservative at the election.

The number of things that Secretary Of State For The Time Being Andrew Lansley and I have in common is growing: we have both now done The Guardian's NHS Reform LiveBlog.

Though in fairness, he got asked a lot more questions than I did.

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A polar bear walks into a bar and starts writing Coalition Government health policy.

The barman says, "why the big pause?"

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When a Prime Minister is willing to outline their political philosophy, it is behovely for people who are interested in politics to listen, even if it mean wading through the fourth relaunch of The Big Society.

You can access the unabridged text here, but I'm pulling out key and health-relevant sections below. First, a few observations.

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This guest editorial from Dr Steve Kell GP, and Chair, Bassetlaw Commissioning Organisation, looks at the leadership role for clinicians, and how to develop it, individually and organisationally.

In my previous article, I discussed the importance the importance of building the right team for a GP Consortium, of having ‘the right people on the bus’ and people in the ‘right seats’.

Good morning. The Financial Times's George Parker and Nick Timmins report that government lawyers have been asked to consider whether the amendments to the Health And Social Care Bill currently under negotiation are so substantial that the Bill must repeat the committee stage scrutiny.

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Shadow health secretary John Healey has given a substantial policy interview to Andrew Sparrow of The Guardian.

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So. Who's winning the media war of winning the reform of the NHS reforms today?

Today, the Lib Dems are using The Independent to show that they are pushing on a range of fronts.

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