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Bob Kerslake was one of our best health officials – yet he’s been ousted on the health secretary’s whim

Defenestration is a regular public spectacle in the NHS. Some chairs, chief executives and finance directors are pushed, while others jump before health department assassins arrive to blame them for debts caused by government underfunding.

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