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Amanda Pritchard, the archetypal pistillate main enforcement of the NHS successful England, is stepping down from the role.
Her departure comes little than a period aft 2 influential House of Commons committees discussed her suitability to pb the NHS done a play of what PM Keir Starmer has said volition beryllium the biggest overhaul of the service.
She took up the station successful 2021 and has overseen immoderate of the absorption of the Covid pandemic.
Before that, she was NHS England's main operating officer, caput of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Trust successful London and an advisor successful Tony Blair's government.
In a connection she said it had been a "hugely hard determination for maine to basal down".
"It has been an tremendous privilege to pb the NHS successful England done what has undoubtedly been the astir hard play successful its history."
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