Andrew Lansley, the health secretary, has been accused of "bullying" NHS staff who speak out against his NHS shakeup after a senior doctor who signed a letter criticising the proposed changes was threatened with disciplinary action.

The doctor has been told to attend a disciplinary hearing later this week by the NHS primary care trust (PCT) that employs him. It claims he breached the NHS code of conduct by airing his concerns.

A GP claims he could face the prospect of legal action if he refuses to treat elderly care home residents who he says were “dumped” on him by another practice.

A total of 48 patients of the 61 elderly and vulnerable people living in Kingston Care Home are being de-registered by one of the largest GPs in Kingston and moved on to the lists of six smaller GPs.

Churchill Medical Practice, run by Charles Alessi, one of the GPs advising health secretary Andrew Lansley on NHS reforms, took the decision to pass on its patients based on resources, according to an NHS spokesman.

Cameron now blustering and equivocating desperately at PMQs.

Instead of trying to answer any questions that Milliband puts, Cameron simply criticises Milliband for choosing to ask the questions that he does.

Bercow should be kicking his arse for this, but he isn't.

At one point Cameron seemed really on the edge of loosing it, I wouldnt have been surprised if he had burst into tears, he sounded so much like a petulant teenager

Dear Mr Rose

Thank you for contacting me about the Department of Health's 'risk register.'

We are committed to transparency and are publishing more information than ever before to help patients make the right choices about their care.

That is why we have already published all risks connected to the Health and Social Care Bill in the Combined Impact Assessments. This was updated as recently as September 2011 and collectively makes up over 400 pages of detailed analysis.

Risk registers are specific policy tools used across Government that present risks in 'worst case scenario' terms. They are used for the management of policy development and implementation across the private and public sectors. The information contained in the risk registers is integral to government policy-making. To release these documents would damage the ability of Ministers to receive accurate advice, mislead the public debate and be detrimental to the public interest.

No Government of any persuasion has routinely made risk registers of this type public. The Department is therefore appealing the decision by the Information Commissioner to publish its risk register.

However, the Department does recognise the public interest in this and I am pleased that, for this reason, the Department has encouraged the Tribunal to schedule the hearing for as early a date as possible, while allowing of course for both sides to make the appropriate preparations. Following this the Tribunal has brought the hearing forward from a date in April to 5 and 6 March.

I hope this information is useful and thank you again for taking the time to contact me.

With best wishes.

Yours sincerely,

Oliver Letwin.

At a time when the NHS
has never been more popular and when there is increasing
evidence of its cost-effectiveness, we are sleep-walking into
its destruction.

The building blocks are being put in place by the
Health and Social Care Bill for a return to an insurance-
based system, starting with personal budgets and year-
of-care funding for long-term conditions and with the
specification that Foundation Trust Hospitals will be able to
raise 49% of funding from private patients. The pathway is
clear to recreating voluntary and Poor Law hospitals, this
time under the same roof. This assault on universalism
has been eloquently described by Martin McKee and
David Stuckler, who identify a key milestone as being the
vilification of poorer people and the creation of a mindset
among those in middling positions that those beneath
them are scroungers and undeserving. The Poor Law
concept of the deserving and undeserving poor is alive
and well, and living in 10 Downing Street and Richmond
House.

mass circulation newspapers feed hostile and
negative propaganda in defiance of the facts about public
services in general and the health services in particular,
softening both them and the public up for carpet-bagging
private organisations to move in to cream off profitable
short-term opportunities, leaving the costly areas of
obstetrics, accident and emergency, psychiatry, care of the
elderly—not to mention high-end, innovative surgery—
to residual state provision, with massive increases in
transaction costs en passant.

As we stand on the verge of
possibly irreversible damage to one of the hallmarks of
what it is to live in a civilised country, it is time to rise up
and defend an institution that was built by our parents
and our grandparents and which we owe to our children
and our grandchildren to maintain and to pass on to them
and to their guardianship.

Government won risk register vote.
Ayes 246, Noes 299. Government majority of 53.

Only hope now is they're told to reveal it at the appeal. However, they still have the recourse of saying "hah, no".