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Some die on trolleys and chairs, nurses report to their Royal College of Emergency Medicine .

20 hospitals declared “critical incidents’, because they were unable to cope with demand for care.

For nurses, the crisis means changing frail, incontinent patients beside vending machines and treating people in storerooms, car parks and toilets.

Prof Ivan Browne mourns the loss of the cross-system collaborations he was renowned for setting up during the Covid pandemic.

He says GPs are too hard-pressed on their own, so everyone took their eye off the ball.

Meanwhile, Donald Trump has chosen as his health secretary Robert Kennedy Jr , who repeated the false claim that vaccines cause autism.