Lansley: Attacks on NHS bill are partisan
Andrew Lansley has blamed opposition to the controversial Health and Social Care Bill on "politicisation" amongst the professional royal colleges, and insisted that changes to the Bill had made it "much better".
The Health Secretary indicated to the Financial Times that the traditionally non-partisan royal colleges had been drawn into a "political operation" by the Labour Party.
But the Health Secretary faced renewed opposition to the reforms, with the Royal College of Radiologists voting this afternoon for the withdrawal of the legislation.