Rumblings over the health secretary's plans for the health service continued today as more than 100 doctors, including 20 professors, signed an open letter in the British Medical Journal, criticising the leadership of the British Medical Association, the doctors' union.
The letter, parts of which are quoted in The Guardian say the BMA should abandon its policy of "critical engagement" with ministers over plans that will "destroy" the NHS, and instead fight the reforms.
The signatories include three members of the BMA council, its 33-strong ruling body, and leading doctors in fields such as cancer, children's health and emergency medicine.
Among other stories, mental health charities have been reacting to news that a middle-aged woman who told her 1,048 Facebook "friends" that she had taken an overdose was found dead the next day after none came to her aid.
Charities said the case was a sad reflection on today's society where friends made online are not necessarily friends in real life.
The letter, parts of which are quoted in The Guardian say the BMA should abandon its policy of "critical engagement" with ministers over plans that will "destroy" the NHS, and instead fight the reforms.
The signatories include three members of the BMA council, its 33-strong ruling body, and leading doctors in fields such as cancer, children's health and emergency medicine.
Among other stories, mental health charities have been reacting to news that a middle-aged woman who told her 1,048 Facebook "friends" that she had taken an overdose was found dead the next day after none came to her aid.
Charities said the case was a sad reflection on today's society where friends made online are not necessarily friends in real life.
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