NHS Digital published figures showing the ongoing increase in NHS activity, while there were further signs of strain in Wales and Scotland. Charities and councils tried again to draw attention to the worsening crisis in social care.
Trusts were criticised for signing a deal to give confidential medical data to DeepMind parent Google Health, and regulators were criticised for doing little to stop it. And there was some interesting news in the information space, as Orion Health announced that it had gone live with the first health information exchange in the Middle East.
