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Family Doctor Services

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. I was privileged to serve with him on the Select Committee on Health, of which he is a distinguished member. Is his experience the same as mine? My city council's health and scrutiny committee has been given the health centre/polyclinic as a fait accompli, with the caveat that it will be placed in an area of social deprivation in my constituency. Effectively, the committee can do nothing about that decision except rubber stamp it.