At 80, its oldest member is Mr Singh himself, while the youngest member is junior minister, Sachin Pilot, 35.

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Sachin Pilot, a junior telecoms minister, predicts that between eight and ten unnamed firms will be asked for more money.

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Andrew Thompson, of the British Medical Association's junior doctors committee, said while the pilot hospitals had introduced the reforms in a positive way, many of the others that had followed suit were trying to get "health care on the cheap".

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