Yesterday we woke up to the main item on the 6 o’clock news on the Today programme being the fact that the Royal Colleges of Nursing and Midwives both  want the Government NHS reforms stopped completely. The newsworthiness of this announcement was that in the past the nursing colleges had had criticisms of the Bill – but now they were completely against it.

My immediate thought was – why is this news? It’s been pretty obvious that this was going to be their position for some time, so is it news when something you know is going to happen actually happens? But my second thought is that my first thought is probably an insider’s thought. Most of the people who heard that news item will not have not spent years of their lives steeped in the ways of various professions wanting to stop various reforms.