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By Jason Evans & Zesha Saleem The practice manager of a GP surgery stole more than £320,000 from the business leaving staff and patients “devastated.” Clare Boland, 51, used her trusted role to pay herself thousands of pounds a month on top of her £53,000 salary, with the money disguised as regular payments to a locum doctor. According to Swansea Court, the fraud went on for more than four years and had a significant impact on the surgery. Now she has been jailed for three years. Prosecutor Peter Donnison said Boland began working at Fairfield surgery in Port Talbot back in 2009. At the time o…