Responding to concerns from doctors in many countries, the BMJ Group has now made available a forum on pandemic flu though doc2doc.bmj.com – a new international on-line community for doctors.

doc2doc provides answers to clinical questions, news about the latest research and forums for doctors to share information easily with each other. Already over 8,000 doctors have registered on doc2doc and visits to the forum on pandemic flu are increasing at the rate of 100 a day.

Dr Fiona Godlee, Editor of the BMJ, said: “The BMJ Group is committed to leading the debate on healthcare and encouraging improved decision making by doctors across the world. doc2doc is an international professional networking community for doctors and meets a real need for doctors across the world to be able to share information with each other.”