The recent report from NICE's Citizen's Council has got some media traction for its support of offering material incentives for healthy or healthier behaviour.

Stop press! The answers about Equity And Excellence are here.

OK, that is a small exaggeration.

But you can find Health Secretary Andrew Lansley's letter to all GPs here, and the relevant list of Frequently Asked Questions here.

- Department of Health refuses to release document on potential consequences of Government proposals to give NHS foundation trusts unrestricted freedom to borrow
- Official reply cites concerns about what “both NHS service providers and financial institutions” might do with this information – despite a public consultation about this proposed change being under way

The Department of Health today refused to release a document outlining the potential consequences of abolishing borrowing limits on NHS foundation trusts (FTs).

Thanks to the Socialist Health Association’s hustings event for the Labour Party leadership candidates, we can bring you the transcript of new Labour leader Ed Miliband’s answers from this event in responses to questions. (You can also find Mili-E's first article as leader here, in the interestingly-chosen pages of the Sunday Telegraph. Tanks on lawns?)

Following the BMA's recent guidance on GP commissioning consortia (which, worryingly, seems to confuse commissioning with referral), Pulse's Ian Quinn reports that the BMA seems set to oppose the privatising 'any willing provider' aspects of Andrew Lansley's NHS White Paper, 'Equity And Excellence'.

It's easy to be critical of the Department of Health; often with good reason.

Nonetheless, they have at times done some good work, and commissioned others to do so. I was having a crawl about their website, and found this study of the introduction of personal budgets in social care, published in 2008.

We already knew quite a lot of this, but this morning's Telegraph list of quangos-for-abolition is already superseded by this longer list from BBC One's The Politics Show.

The BBC cover note states that this is draft, and was dated 26 August.

The interweb is a wonderful thing - sometimes - but this story on BBC News has changed rather radically in the past half-hour.

Originally, it reported Unison as having claimed they had won the right to a judicial review of the White Paper.

In its current iteration, it withdraws that claim.

Unison's legal challenge could thus be compared to the SAS - skilled in getting in and out with as few people as possible noticing.

Those of you with long memories may recall that we contradicted widespread rumours that Total Place was for the scrapheap back in early July.

Private Finance today suggests that the Comprehensive Spending Review will see Total Place back with a vengeance.

Autum's arrived with a bang.

With no less pyrotechnics, the latest instalment of The Maynard Doctrine finds the good Professor getting stuck into the issue of regulation of GP commissioning consortia. Enjoy it.

Today also sees a joint position statement from three major bodies: the Healthcare Financial Managers' Association, the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges and the NHS Confederation.