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Family Doctor Services

I know that the right hon. Gentleman shares my concern about provision in rural areas. There is, as my hon. Friend the Member for Macclesfield (Sir Nicholas Winterton) observed, a fear about the imposition of polyclinics. The policy will go down particularly ill in rural areas where minor injuries units in community hospitals have been shut down or had their hours massively reduced. If Ministers suddenly espouse the need for provision 12 hours a day, seven days a week, people in those communities will not understand why that has been removed from community hospitals throughout the country, and they will not believe that the policy is likely to lead to the improvement in rural areas that the right hon. Gentleman implies will happen.