I remember, in the autumn of 2010, writing about an important paper produced by 10 major patient groups and suggesting that perhaps this would prove to be a more important document than anything else that was going on at the time with regard to the wrangling about the Health and Social Care Bill.

Over the last 18 months too many  of us have been consumed with the structural and political dance that became the Health and Social Care Act, but luckily these patient groups have kept their eye on the ball and concentrated on real patient-centred care. A few days ago they published the latest instalment of their work.