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Family Doctor Services

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his intervention, because it takes me to my final point. Everybody in my constituency wants a hospital in the Wellingborough and Rushden area. I have found no one who does not want this. We must travel miles to get to a hospital, and we are in an expansion area where 52,000 new homes are about to be built. We want a hospital. Listening to this debate, my fear is that somebody will say, ““They can have a polyclinic, because then we will not have to provide them with a hospital,”” which would be totally and utterly unacceptable. There are significant variations around the country, so I do not believe in one centrally imposed system. There may be great merit to those health centres, but they should not be centrally imposed everywhere.