David Cameron was accused of "playing a dangerous game of divide and rule" by only inviting royal medical colleges and health practitioners that he believes will back his NHS reorganisation to a special summit at Downing Street on Monday.
Andy Burnham, shadow health secretary, criticised the decision to exclude health bodies believed to include the BMA and the Royal College of General Practitioners from the summit, even though the transfer of greater powers to doctors is a centrepiece of the changes.
Burnham said doctors had "strong and sincerely held views" on the government's plans for the NHS and didn't deserve to have the door to the summit "shut in their faces".
But Tory health minister Simon Burns insisted that it was not "odd at all" not to invite them because the meeting was part of "an ongoing dialogue".
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