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 GOVE NMENTISSUESTWOTJJRNHSDENIAL
 The Government has denied that a "two  
 tier" N tional Hjaluh Sju6icj has 
 created by thu introduction of         
 fundholdink OPs.                       
                                        
 Health ministdr Gdrald Malone, opening 
 a debate on fundholding and primar=    
 care, insisted the NHS was a "topmtiuu"
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 Hi argued that patients were treated   
 far quicker since the 1989 reforms.    
                                        
 Labour's David Hinchliffe argued that  
 the patients of fund-holding OPs were  
 treated as a priority.                 
                                        
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