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“A glided cage is still a cage” (Lady Hale, in the Cheshire West case) Warning - this one's really long (there's a brief summary at the end though, so feel free to skip to that if you like). This is Part 2 of a double-header focusing on documents made publicly available concerning the NHS England “Transforming Care and Commissioning Steering Group”. Part 1 (available here http://chrishatton.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/a-gilded-cage-part-1.html ) focused on the terms of reference and minutes of the first meeting of the Steering Group. This post (imaginatively titled Part 2 will focus on the original ACEVO plan also made public on the same NHS England webpage as the ‘Scoping solution’ document (available here http://www.england.nhs.uk/2014/08/01/community-support/ ). As Sir Stephen Bubb’s initial blog is remarkably faithful to the longer plan, many of my initial observations from reading his blog (available here http://chrishatton.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/deja-vu-all-over-again.html ) s...

I really don’t know how to start this post. To their credit, NHS England have published online what is presumably the original plan submitted to NHS England by Sir Stephen Bubb on “Bubb’s Challenge”, which as revealed in his blog (available here http://bloggerbubb.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/the-winterbourne-view-concordat-and.html before any word from NHS England) caused so much consternation. The plan is available here http://www.england.nhs.uk/2014/08/01/community-support/ as the ‘Scoping solution’ document. Also available on the same page are the Terms of Reference for the “Transforming Care and Commissioning Steering Group” and the minutes of the first meeting of this group on 28 th July. As an aside, it’s revealing that this page of the NHS England website is completely separate to the NHS England pages about the Winterbourne View Joint Improvement Programme (available here http://www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/qual-clin-lead/wint-view-impr-prog/ ), with as far as I can tell no connectio...