Wes Streeting said he recognised the pressures that organisations which provided care outside the public sector were facing.

The Health Secretary acknowledged there were issues around the associates being used as substitutes for doctors.

Conservation status for warm-water reef-building corals was analysed for the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Red List.

NHS England will carry out a ‘no holds barred’ review of NHS performance across England with the results made public in league tables.