Buy my book, Lucas tells peeved NHS media team

The National Health Service is very unhappy with the Economist's deputy international editor Ed Lucas after his article about NHS IT systems. Lucas talked to two NHS national clinical directors and the medical director of the "choose and book" service in preparing his critical piece but ignored their information in favour of another source - his sister, a local GP. Dr Stephen Miller, medical director of the NHS Choose and Book hospital appointment team, wrote in the Economist letters pages of his disappointment that Lucas was "unable to present a more balanced view" of the programme after interviewing. So imagine the surprise of the NHS media team to receive a round robin email from Lucas, inviting them to buy his new book on Russia, The New Cold War. As he puts it himself: "I have been plugging it relentlessly on radio and television." And virally as well, clearly.