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It takes nine years before they qualify as general practitioners. Ninety per cent of contacts with the national health service begin and end in primary care.
The proposed group would be a mechanism for bringing that together into a single form, not to replace those bilateral contacts, but to complement the existing framework.
You mentioned that the NUS was the only organisation to say that it wished to give oral evidence to us, but I think that I am right in saying that we contacted a number of groups and organisations.
After I met them, I was immediately and directly contacted by Farooq Tariq, who is the general secretary of the Labour Party Pakistan, and others in the organisation.
The statement says:"Only half of those referred attend clinics".We need more people in the community to make non-judgmental contact with people who are infected by the disease.