Proceeding contribution from Lord Lansley (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 9 March 2010. It occurred during Opposition day on Health Care in London.

Health Care in London

My hon. Friend is absolutely right, and has a unique perspective in that he sees the problem from both sides of the River Thames. I defer to him because he is responsible for the care of my parents in Hornchurch. It is astonishing that nowhere in the NHS London document does it say anything about the cost of establishing those polyclinics. In constrained financial circumstances, how absurd is it to spend million pounds shutting down hospital services only to spend millions more opening new polyclinics, sometimes on the same premises, as at the King George in Ilford? What kind of an absurdity is that?

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Type: Proceeding contribution
Reference: 507 c169
Session: 2009-10
Chamber / Committee: House of Commons chamber
Subjects: Disadvantaged Cost effectiveness Closures Hospitals Health services Expenditure Greater London General practitioners NHS Management Standards Reorganisation Accident and emergency departments Per capita costs Health centres Treatment centres London Strategic Health Authority Olympic Games 2012
Link: View this Proceeding contribution on www.publications.parliament.uk

Health Care in London

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