Sentence examples for polyclinics from inspiring English sources
That plan envisaged GPs working in polyclinics offering a wider range of care than local surgeries, thus reducing patient trips to hospitals.If polyclinics did everything they are supposed to do—improving care while also achieving savings then they would be welcome.
Surprisingly, his insubstantial interim review in October made no mention of polyclinics.
The Royal College of GPs fears that polyclinics may rupture the personal link with a single family doctor that patients value.Lord Darzi's second rationale is also questionable.
But it is the nearest thing Britain has yet to German polyclinics, which operate on a far bigger scale and offer many hospital-like services, including day surgery.
"The moral high ground on which GPs have always stood is now wobbling a bit," says Mr Goodwin.Some doctors think that the government is picking a fight with family doctors in order to clear the way for a new alternative, polyclinics—huge multi-professional centres that are open all hours, perhaps run by private companies and employing salaried doctors.
His report, due within weeks, may recommend a reorganisation of the entire NHS, with much care shifted from hospitals and GPs' surgeries to "polyclinics", a kind of half-way house between the two.
All that plus the Next Stage Review of the NHS - and last month's review of its first year in action - was quite a challenge for a relative novice, one who had learned how tough politics can be during his earlier defusing (sort of) of the fuss over don't-call-them-polyclinics.
The hospital, the largest in Beijing, is a polyclinic facility combined with an institute of gynecology and pediatrics.
Some patients in sparsely populated rural areas may be seen first by feldshers (auxiliary health workers), nurses, or midwives who work under the supervision of a polyclinic or hospital physician.
In the U.S.S.R. the polyclinic (poliklinika) was created in order to combine the function of a hospital outpatient department with that of a general-practitioner health centre.
Small towns usually have one polyclinic to serve all purposes.
