Miliband: NHS Reforms Will Be PM's Poll Tax

David Cameron's NHS reforms will become "his poll tax", the Labour leader suggested during Prime Minister's Questions.

Ed Miliband urged him to drop his Health and Social Care Bill and accused him of excluding key groups from a Downing Street health summit.

On Monday, Health Secretary Andrew Lansley was heckled when he arrived for a meeting with some, but not all, of the organisations representing the NHS.

The Labour leader said those not invited included: "The GPs, the nurses, the midwives, the pathologists, the psychiatrists, the physiotherapists and, just for good measure, the radiologists."

He said far from bringing doctors and nurses with him in his reforms, the Prime Minister could no longer be in the same room as them.

But Mr Cameron said the health service was receiving greater investment and attacked the Labour leader for "complete opportunism".

"But let's be frank: money alone is not going to be enough," he said.

"We have got to meet the challenge of an ageing population, more expensive treatments, more people on long-term conditions and that is why we have got to reform the NHS.

"My summit was about those organisations, including clinical commissioning groups up and down the country - 8,200 GP practices - that want to put these reforms in place."

He pushed his Labour rival to ask him about the "risk register" - an assessment of the impact of the reforms and the subject of a debate instigated by the Opposition later.

The Prime Minister told MPs he had seen Labour's briefing on the issue, which revealed the reasons why such a document might legitimately not be released.

He also said Andy Burnham blocked the publication of a risk register when he was health secretary in 2009.