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Family Doctor Services

May I tell the Secretary of State about a new health centre in Wigan called Boston house, which has been open for three or four years? Taking some of the services and moving them there has transformed the lives of many patients living in the area that I represent. We are talking about a health centre outside a general hospital that provides renal services. People in Wigan have always had to go to Bolton, Salford and other places nearby for renal dialysis. Now we have that in Wigan, located in primary rather than secondary care. Is that not what health centres are all about—transforming the lives of people by taking things out of secondary care and into primary care?