BMJ  2008;336:529 (8 March), doi:10.1136/bmj.39511.557917.4E

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London GPs express fears over Darzi’s proposals for the capital

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GPs in London have rejected the idea put forward by the junior health minister Ara Darzi that polyclinics will solve the capital’s health problems. The clinics could in fact throw up a number of serious problems, they warn.

A consultation with all the 24 local medical committees in London, which represent GPs in the city, found that 17 out of 19 committees either strongly disagreed or tended to disagree with the proposal that almost all general practices in London should be part of a polyclinic.

The idea of polyclinics was put forward by Professor Darzi in Healthcare for London: A Framework for Action, which wascommissioned by NHS London, the capital’s strategic health authority, and published in July last year (BMJ 2007;335:61 doi: 10.1136/bmj.39273.467697.DB). In the report Professor Darzi recommends the development of 10 pilot polyclinics and envisages that London could have 150 such clinics in 10 years’ time.

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