Chris Hopson, Amanda Pritchard 1.0 and The Magic Kingdom

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12/14/21 • 44 min

So the boys are back in town with a brand new season of the Placemat.
What have they learned during the hiatus? Well, not an awful lot to be honest.
Is the new CEO of NHS England worth investing in or should you wait for the next update?
Find out who Ed Waller and Ian Dodge are and the safeguards NHSE has to stop the magic being ruined in Skipton House.
Find out how and if GPs would ever strike and how they might organise themselves, as long as they get backfill for it.
And finally listen to Chris Hopson talk candidly about the NHS, GPs and how he once chained himself to a railing.

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