UnitedHealth global health president Simon Stevens (who spoke yesterday at an excellent event held by the think-tank Reform) has previously joked that the tense Blair-Brown axis of New Labour was in its own way a ‘coalition government’.

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Health Secretary Andrew Lansley - speech to King’s Fund Leadership Conference, Wednesday 18 May 2011

Integration and Leadership

As the Prime Minister set out so clearly this week, the NHS faces some significant long-term challenges. An ageing and increasing population, increasing burden of chronic disease, rising costs of drugs and treatments, and growing, almost insatiable public expectations.

Mike Hobday, Macmillan Cancer Research Head of Campaigns, Policy and Public Affairs, suggests that the efficiency gain £20 billion nettle can be grasped alongside reconfiguration, if we deploy the NHS’s key under-used asset: co-production with patients.

This guest editorial by Julian Tyndale-Biscoe, MD of InHealth Communications, wonders whether citizen panels offer a viable workaround to the questions of clinical commissioners’ accountability and politics.

I know two GPs who are polar opposites of each other. They work less than a mile apart.

The battle for the credit for ‘saving the NHS reform’ resumes, in the wake of Prime Minister David ‘Shabba’ Cameron’s Monday ‘vajazzle-dazzle’ speech.

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Much of what we need to know about the Kings Fund's new report into leadership and management is there on the front cover, in three simple words of its sub-heading - 'no more heroes'. I'm assuming there is a Stranglers fan in the publications team somewhere.

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Secretary Of State For The Time Being Andrew Lansley has not become The Invisible Man: he is due to make an appearance tomorrow, at the Kings Fund leadership and management event.

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KPMG's Global Head Of Health Dr Mark Britnell has rather become the story since his Health Service Journal opinion piece on debating NHS funding.

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Well, that was a day. PM David Cameron repositioned himself as the Shabba Ranks of the NHS.

He loves the NHS, you know. Loves it. Lovedy-love-love-love—double-love-no-returns-back.

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The text of the PM's speech is online here.

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A few quick thoughts.

1. That man can read an autocue with aplomb.