The white paper

The new coalition government’s white paper on health – encompassing the future of the NHS - was published this week. Chris Ham, chief executive of the health policy think-tank the King’s Fund and professor of health policy and management at the University of Birmingham, and Edward Davies, editor of BMJ Careers, discuss their immediate impressions with Ashley McKimm. Also this week a paper on www.bmj.com looks at suicide, and how the method of an attempted suicide relates to a later successful attempt. Professor Bo Runeson from the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden joins us on the phone to discuss his research.