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Please see below and follow link to Malcolm Payne's blog. Thanks, Malcolm. Paul Paul Bywaters Professor of Social Work, Coventry University ________________________________ From: Malcolm Payne [[log in to unmask]] Sent: 31 January 2013 11:43 To: Paul Bywaters Subject: Hospital mergers and competition decisions Paul I don't usually bother to notify the Network about my blog posts, but I thought this one might be of particular interest to England members. It's about the first competition decision since the Health and Social Care Act 2012 on a hospital merger, and the Office of Fair Trading referred it to the Competition Commission for review on grounds of lack of patient benefit. http://sweol.wordpress.com/2013/01/31/nhs-merger-proposal-that-includes-patient-benefit-in-anti-competition-decision/ best wishes Malcolm -- Malcolm Payne 23 Sandpiper Road, Sutton SM1 2ZU UK Tel: +44(0)20 8643 9646 Mobile: +44(0)79 7054 2213 On: Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/reithpayne> Google+<https://plus.google.com/103262880346296628578/posts> Linked In<http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/malcolm-payne/23/966/908> Twitter<https://twitter.com/MalcolmPayne> Blogs: Greyamble<http://greyamble.blogspot.co.uk/> End-of-life care<http://sweol.wordpress.com/> Self-positioning<http://self-positioning.tumblr.com/>