trying to pretend that a statement signed by 60 doctors is not a petition is just playing with words Alan. Personally, I think that if 60 doctors were that worried , then something MUST have been going on , despite the denials in Authority. These are top guys actually working in the hospital. They are bound to know what was in the air. If you paid attention to the local candidtates in the election, you must surely have heard the very coherent arguments by that independent Doctor who stood? He was there to protest on behalf of doctors nationally about a creeping dismantling of NHS buy this government. Basically , a lot of doctors no longer trust the government.