I've made my merry way up to Birmingham to join hundreds of health service human resources professionals at the NHS Employers annual conference.
The line up over the next three days is pretty impressive, with workforce director-general Clare Chapman addressing the troops, along with NHS chief executive David Nicholson and the new-ish health secretary Alan Johnson.
Plenty for delegates to absorb in the coming days, especially in the current political climate and the government's Comprehensive Spending Review scheduled for today (Tuesday) that will set the health service's budget for the next few years.
However, the talk in the taxi queue at Birmingham New Street station was not one of budget squeezes, workforce planning or nurses' pay - just how good the lunches at the conference centre can be.
"They even give you hot food", one pleased-looking lady remarked.
I know times have been tough recently, but is a hot lunch really that extravagent for beleagured NHS workers?
More on the conference on the Editors' Blog as it happens.
