Two bombshells this week for a doctor. First, the shock news that NHS England – at a single swipe of Keir Starmer’s red-tape-slashing chainsaw – is to be no more. Second, the startlingly unpleasant, almost Trump-like rhetoric with which the Prime Minister chose to break the news. Are the 15,000 people who work in NHS England really a “cottage industry of checkers and blockers”?

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