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NHS chair urged exec to meet US health firm he had business links to

Exclusive: Emails reveal Lord Prior told officials to meet the boss of Teladoc, which was ‘keen to expand’ into UK

By Martin Williams, Shanti Das and Jon Ungoed-Thomas
NHS chair urged exec to meet US health firm he had business links to
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The former chair of NHS England urged a top official to meet with a private US health firm that he had business links to, openDemocracy can reveal.

Former Tory minister David Prior sent an email to NHSX chief executive Matthew Gould in February 2021 urging him to “have a conversation” with the head of American digital health giant Teladoc, documents show.

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