Health department sexed up Keogh strike letter, saysIndependent

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The Department of Health for England strengthened a letter sent by the medical director of NHS England to the BMA that questioned whether striking doctors would respond in the event of a terrorist attack, the Independent newspaper has claimed. The newspaper said that it had seen leaked emails showing that a letter sent by Bruce Keogh went through various revisions “to ensure concerns about the possible impact of a major incident during the strike were made as ‘hard-edged’ as possible.”1 It also claimed that the letter’s specific reference to terrorist attacks in Paris “may have been …