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An Olympian break

Today, July 27th , sees the start of the London Olympics.

The NHS was founded in July 1948 and later that summer, London hosted the first post-war Olympics. Being only a few months old at the time I don’t remember anything about those events, but here I am in London, 64 years later, celebrating both again.

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