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A big thank you to Charlie for providing us with an overview of the recently released Good Practice Guidelines 2018. We hope you all enjoyed the webinar as much as we did. To view the recording of the webinar, just click on the YouTube video below. If you have any feedback or requests for particular topics to be covered in future webinars, please comment using the comment box below.
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