BMJ 2008;336:635 (22 March), doi:10.1136/bmj.39521.479618.DB
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Doctors warn of premature move to polyclinics
Adrian O’Dowd
1 Margate
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Fears are growing among doctors that many primary care trusts (PCTs) are already preparing for polyclinics—large centres with GPs and specialists under one roof—even before the government gives the final go ahead later this year.
Doctors’ leaders believe that, despite promises from the government that local areas will be able to choose how they modernise primary care, implementation of the policy of polyclinics is inevitable.
PCTs are placing a growing number of advertisements in trade publications such as the Health Service Journal and GP magazine for GPs or companies to run such clinics, says the BMA. It is worried that polyclinics are unstoppable and may undermine the basis of general practice.
The BMA expects that polyclinics will feature large in junior health minister Ara Darzi’s final proposals, which are due by June with the publication of his second stage review.
Professor Darzi first mentioned polyclinics in the report Healthcare for
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