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Darzi warns GP workload to rise 77%
31-Oct-07
Health minister and surgeon Lord Ara Darzi warned MPs that there would be a 77 per cent increase in GP consultations in London over the next 10 years.
Giving evidence to the Health Select Committee last week, Lord Darzi said his polyclinic model was required to deal with London’s expected population growth.
He predicted a 77 per cent increase in GP consultations over the next 10 years, as a result of an extra 700,000 patients in London. If nothing was done, Lord Darzi said, ‘The whole system would be paralysed.’
He also admitted that his polyclinic vision did not consider the cost of land or how many centres are really required.
Lord Darzi recommends opening 150 new polyclinics in England in his Our NHS, Our Future review, including an unspecified number in London.
tom.ireland@haymarket.com
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Martin Gray
31/10/2007
Are these polyclinics on the same lines as the LIFT buildings we have in South Yorkshire? If so there are some disadvantages to them despite what we are led to believe..... cost in particular.
Girishchandra Keshavlal Patel
31/10/2007
GP are not doing enough work for the money paid to them
Richard Luke Westall Kippax
01/11/2007
ive yet to meet a surgeon who understands how general practice works; likewise we gps cannot possibly expect to know the intricacies of surgery; so why is a surgeon conducting a review of general practice; its there for all to see (who can see it) that by his recommendations he proves my point
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