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- noun Plural form of
polyclinic .
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Examples
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Yesterday it was the ridiculous suggestion from the Government's Health Minister to get rid of the single GP surgery and instead use "polyclinics" - an idea that has rightly been accused by the BMA as being very "London-centric".
Things that make you go ARGH Tracey Crouch 2008
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Calling for the system of 24/7 care outside hospital to be simplified, their report said: "In addition to NHS Direct the phone and web advice service, general practice, emergency departments and the ambulance service, a host of new facilities, including walk-in centres, urgent care centres, polyclinics, equitable access centres and GP-led health centres all offer a slightly different range of services available at varying times."
NHS patients in England face 'confusing mix' of urgent healthcare 2011
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Letters: The King's Fund is right to say the introduction of polyclinics could be a missed opportunity to properly integrate services
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Are they still going to close the polyclinics or has that policy been dropped?
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Every user of the drug (government run clinics, polyclinics and hospitals) is issued a passbook.
Just What the Doctor Prescribed Dinesh Narayanan 2010
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In addition the Blair / Brown policy of concentrating GP services into super polyclinics will have the effect of making GP services more likely to be sucked up into major international service providers.
David Cameron's NHS reforms may leave him feeling sick | Jackie Ashley 2010
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Some patients in deprived areas are being given new polyclinics, but as with existing GP surgeries, the location is where the Primary Care Trust (PCT) dictates.
Introducing GP charges won't solve the primary care dilemma 2009
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Lord Darzi has attempted to remedy the inequalities of access to healthcare with the introduction of polyclinics.
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Some patients in deprived areas are being given new polyclinics, but as with existing GP surgeries, the location is where the Primary Care Trust (PCT) dictates.
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Lord Darzi has attempted to remedy the inequalities of access to healthcare with the introduction of polyclinics.
Introducing GP charges won't solve the primary care dilemma 2009
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