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- ↑ "Our development offer". NHS Providers. Retrieved 16 April 2020.
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{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Health secretary hints NHS will get more money". BBC. 16 November 2022. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
