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Family Doctor Services

There is one danger that my hon. Friend has omitted in talking about the push for polyclinics—the impact that they may have on the delivery of local services in, for example, cottage hospitals and smaller district general hospitals if the PCT commissions more services that can be delivered in polyclinics. As I am sure that my hon. Friend knows, my hon. Friend the Member for Macclesfield (Sir Nicholas Winterton) supported the first getting together of GPs on condition that that arrangement did not in any way challenge the services provided by Macclesfield district general hospital, which is also valuable to my constituency.