Potty policies on polyclinics

Here's what Frank Dobson has to say in relation to setting up a super surgery at a London teaching hospital:

There may be a case for polyclinics being set up in under-doctored areas, but this area has some excellent GP practices. The whole idea of setting up polyclinics is to shift services away from hospitals into the community. But this proposal to set up the polyclinic at the hospital was potty

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Why can't we have a proper informed discussion on these things? Politicians vowing to 'quash resistance' is not the way forward. Pulse has the story.