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Family Doctor Services

I am interested to hear the hon. Gentleman's examples and am sorry to hear about his cut leg and cracked ribs. If the hon. Gentleman's GP had decided that he needed an X-ray, or if his wife's GP had decided to order a liver ultrasound scan, it would have been far better to have that X-ray or ultrasound scan then and there in the same clinic, rather than waiting for two or three weeks for provision in one of the local hospitals, which might be 20 miles away. Surely it is better to have the ultrasound scanner and the X-ray machine on the same site to deal with such matters as one-stop events?