Experts 'excluded' from NHS summit Eight royal colleges said they have not received an invitation to the meeting, which is intended to shore up support for the Health and Social Care Bill. No 10 has refused to release the guest list for today's health summit on the Bill, which faces fierce opposition from professionals, patient groups, Labour and reportedly even Tory Cabinet ministers. But the Royal College of GPs and the Royal College of Radiologists, which have both called for the Bill to be scrapped, are among those who confirmed they have not been invited. The Faculty of Occupational Medicine has also not been invited and neither has the Royal College of Psychiatrists, which has has said it "cannot support the Bill as it currently stands" and has called the reforms "fundamentally flawed." Others from the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges confirming they have not been asked to the meeting include the College of Emergency Medicine and the Faculty of Public Health, which has called for the Bill to be withdrawn. The Royal College of Pathologists has also not been invited to today's meeting. It has not come out in direct opposition to the Bill, but has concerns over the legislation. The Royal College of Ophthalmologists has not been invited but a spokeswoman said it hopes there will be opportunity for a representative to meet the Prime Minister in the future. Those confirming attendance include the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, which will set out its position on the Bill in the next few days following a membership survey. The Royal College of Surgeons, which has agreed to "critical engagement with Government" over the Bill will also attend the meeting, as will the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, which has concerns but has agreed to continue talks with ministers. The Royal College of Anaesthetists will also go, as will the Royal College of Physicians, which has pledged to continue discussions with the Government. Health unions say they have been excluded from the meeting, including the Royal College of Midwives (RCM), the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), the British Medical Association (BMA), Unite and Unison, all of which have called for the Bill to be withdrawn. The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, which opposes the Bill, said it too has been excluded. Today's meeting will see David Cameron and Health Secretary Andrew Lansley hold a roundtable discussion with chairs of the emerging GP-led clinical commissioning groups (CCGs). Amid intense pressure to drop the Bill, Mr Cameron will claim patients are beginning to see the fruits of greater GP influence - a key plank of the reforms - in areas where CCGs have already been set up. The Prime Minister's official spokesman denied that Mr Cameron was dodging critics of his reforms. "We are not excluding anyone," the spokesman told reporters at a daily Westminster briefing. The purpose of today's meeting is to hear first-hand from people who are implementing the reforms about how the process is going. The spokesman added: "He is meeting a number of national healthcare organisations and clinical commissioning groups. There will be several royal colleges represented. He will also be talking to a number of GPs who will be setting out their experiences in implementing the reforms. This is about the Prime Minister listening to health service professionals about how we can implement the reforms that we have set out. We have had countless meetings with health service professionals over the past year and we will continue to do so. We said at the time of the listening exercise that we wanted to continue with that process as we implemented the reforms. Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham said: "The NHS means too much to too many people for the Government to play this dangerous game of divide and rule. It is never a good idea for any Prime Minister to surround himself with people who he thinks will tell him what he wants to hear. The RCN said it was "extraordinary" that it had not been invited to the meeting. Chief executive Peter Carter said: "Anyone who's opposed the Bill seems to have been excluded and we would say that's not a very sensible way to move forward." The BMA said it would be "odd" if organisations representing health professionals were not invited to the summit. At today's meeting, the Prime Minister will point to evidence that emergency hospital admissions have fallen year-on-year for the first time. He will stress that that has happened at the same time that GPs have taken a more central role in shaping care for patients and the NHS has moved away from Labour's "targets" culture to the coalition's emphasis on "outcomes." Department of Health figures show a 0.5% decline in emergency hospital admissions in 2011, compared with a 36% increase between 2001 and 2010. Mr Cameron was forced to reaffirm his support for the Bill last weekend after reports that three Tory Cabinet ministers were against the Bill and influential website Conservative Home urged him to drop it. He insisted he was "at one" with beleaguered Mr Lansley. More than 147,000 people have signed an e-petition calling for the Bill to be dropped. Health minister Simon Burns denied that key bodies were being excluded from talks on the Bill. "This (summit) is part of an ongoing dialogue," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme. We have had hundreds of meetings, there have been thousands of people involved in talking and looking into different ways of improving and engaging on the Health Bill. That includes the RCN. Mr Burns said on this occasion the Government was meeting organisations that were "constructively involved" in the process. The meeting the Prime Minister is having today is simply part of an ongoing dialogue with those who are constructively involved in improving the reforms. He warned that "in some ways this has become a political football." "The NHS is too important and too precious to be turned into a political football for party gain," he added.