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Ignore GPs. Polyclinics are the future | David Aaronovitch - Times Online
comes Lord Darzi of Denham, G. Brown's Minister of Health, with a suggestion that could create an epistemological break - the polyclinic. This super-practice, which can combine under one roof the services of GPs, dentistsRichard Vautrey, of the GPs' committee of the British Medical Association, has been the chief voice raised at the weekend in opposition to Lord Darzi. He was principally worried about the loss of the role of medical generalist. The newhour? And since when was minimising discomfort regarded as being somehow un-NHS? How, also, should we break it to the benighted Sovietised Swedes and Australians, that -deprived of the personal touch - they are sufferingcan GPs be paid more than hospital doctors (the specialists) earn when all they do is work 9-5 and are closed all weekend and evenings. How can they justify earning so much when they are merely referring anything remotely difficult tobit tatty sometimes but who cares if the hospitals are clean and it is quick to see a doctor. Helen, Prague, Czech Republic Aaronovitch is probably right about the 'Dr Finlay' argument, and possibly correct to
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