One of the more interesting possibilities that writing this blog offers is to try and bring together very different parts of the very different worlds that impact upon the NHS. At this moment all of the major medical organisations within the NHS are concentrating on the Bill and its passage through the House of Lords, which is an important issue for NHS policy since it now looks as if every organisation in the NHS is against it. Many expect the Bill to be defeated.

But the Government seems eerily confident of getting the Bill passed when it returns to the Lords for 6 days between February and March.