In a damning letter to The Lancet medical journal, members of Britain's Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health said there was "no prospect" of improving the Health and Social Care Bill, currently going through Parliament.

And they accused the government of "misrepresenting" the Bill as being something that was necessary for the NHS.

The signatories join several Royal Medical Colleges, including those for GPs, Radiologists, Midwives and Nurses in calling for the Bill to be scrapped.

And health unions are also calling for the changes to be stopped.

The move will pile more pressure on the government over the reforms.