To sum up, Hutton's not a calculating character

Dining in intimidating company the other evening, I found myself seated next to a distinguished medical academic. A man of lifelong Labour persuasion, he was nonetheless fiercely sceptical of the evidence-based approach to NHS drugs policy as represented by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence.

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