Box 1.

List of responding specialty societies and committees

Association of British Clinical Diabetologists
Association of Cancer Physicians
British Association for Sexual Health and HIV
British Association of Audiovestibular Physicians
British Association of Dermatologists
British Association of Stroke Physicians
British Cardiovascular Society
British Infection Association
British Pharmacological Society
British Society for Rheumatology
British Society of Rehabilitation Medicine
Clinical Genetics Society
Royal College of Physicians Joint Specialty Committee on Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics
Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Society for Acute Medicine
Society for Endocrinology
The Renal Association
UK Palliative Medicine Association