Intended for healthcare professionals

Rapid response to:

Editorials

Dr Lansley’s Monster

BMJ 2011; 342 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.d408 (Published 21 January 2011) Cite this as: BMJ 2011;342:d408

Rapid Response:

Re:A Most Ungodly Epithet

We would like to apologise to Dr Peter H Lansley and any other Dr
Lansleys who have been mistaken for the architect of the government's
latest health reforms. We thought that the editorial entitled "Dr
Lansley's Monster," and a series of articles appearing in the print
journal and on the website, made it clear that we were referring to Mr
Andrew Lansley, England's Secretary of State for Health.

Competing interests: I am a co-author of the offending editorial

31 January 2011
Tony Delamothe
deputy editor
BMJ