Women’s clinics
Sir,—G Hunter (December 26) takes Nan Farrant to task for saying that well women do not visit doctors. Well women from the lower-income group do not visit, doctors unless they jolly well have to because it costs too much. Many women are dying because they are not. being screened for cancer, and it is imperative that all women, rich and poor, should be covered by screening. Local community centres, as envisaged by the Minister of Health, could fill this need admirably, need not have to be run from expensive premises, employing nurses carrying out all kinds of services within their scope. The steady flow of letters in the correspondence columns of newspapers denigrating this concept shows the concern of doctors that their incomes will be somewhat eroded. They have always opted for a private enterprise set-up in their medical businesses. I will be pleased to see them exposedd to some competition; perhaps we may even see their fees reduced.—Yours, etc.,
H. WALLER. January 7, 1987.
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