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The King's Fund is an organisation well known to many readers. Its stated aim is to work with individuals and organisations to shape policy and transform services through research and analysis, develop clinical and managerial leaders, create and support networks to share experience and improve services by helping health professionals bring better health care to patients. It also hopes that its policy and research activity will have a growing and measurable impact on both policy makers and frontline services. It is an influential and respected opinion seeker and former.

In October last year, in conjunction with a well known medical web site, they published a 13 page document called ‘Impact of the health White Paper – what doctors think’.1 It reports the results of a survey of 500 general practitioners (GPs) and 500 hospital doctors about the government's white paper ‘Equity and excellence: liberating the NHS’. They targeted a representative spread of doctors across regions and seniority; their …