Mr Miliband was questioning the Prime Minister after the Royal College of General Practitioners, representing this country’s 42,000 family doctors, demanded major changes to the Health and Social Care Bill before it ruins the NHS.
The row erupted as it appeared Mr Cameron was seeking to let Health Secretary Andrew Lansley take the flak over the controversial and much-criticised plans. It is believed at Westminster that Mr Lansley will be replaced by Stephen Dorrell in an imminent Cabinet reshuffle.
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg was also under fire after it emerged that, despite trying to distance himself from his coalition partners after his party’s dismal performance in the local elections, his Orange Book contribution in 2004 could have come straight out of Mr Lansley’s Bill.
Meanwhile, Shadow Health Secretary John Healey was meeting top health professionals in London on Wednesday to analyse the successes and failures of Labour’s health policy in government – and to determine a new policy for caring for the elderly for the next manifesto.
