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Dr Hamed Khan, a south London GP who also works in A&E departments explains how the increasing workload on GPs means their traditional role as “NHS gatekeepers” has been undermined.

The first private healthcare provider in the country to run an NHS hospital is planning to withdraw from the deal, blaming “unprecedented A&E attendances”.

At the heart of the debate over the state of the NHS is patients’ experiences. Florence Cunningham, 81, had a fall on Sunday night, and then waited more than 11 hours before being taken to hospital.

The shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham says people are being exposed to “unacceptable risk” but Tory MP David Tredinnick says the A&E crisis is only at certain hospitals.

Waiting times in England are the worst in a decade, as four hospitals declare “major incidents” and the health secretary says health bosses are “running just to keep still”.

Participants in the 100,000 Genomes Project will share genetic codes and medical records with drugs companies and researchers in the hope of finding effective treatments for cancer and rare diseases.

Children’s doctor Myles Bradbury is jailed for 22 years after admitting to the abuse of 18 boys in his care and taking thousands of pictures of gravely ill children on his spy pen.