COMBINING GROCERY SHOPPING WITH DOCTORS' APPOINTMENTS

Some Britons can add a visit to the doctor to their shopping lists. J Sainsbury, one of Britain's largest supermarket chains, is to become the first in the country to offer a visit to a family doctor in one of its stores. To start, they will work in the evenings and on Saturdays in a fully equipped consultation room in one store in Manchester.

Overall, the supermarket doctors are expected not only to help patients but also the government. British authorities have struggled to improve their taxpayer-financed national health service and to make doctors more readily available to patients.

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