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Hospitals frequently have beds occupied by older people who do not have a clinical need for them, but there is nowhere else safe for them to go, says Age UK.

The BMA says latest performance figures show a health service that is buckling under unprecedented pressure.

The NHS can expect to see performance this summer as poor as that seen in recent winters, as so-called 'winter pressures' extend right through the year, according to new analysis from the British Medical Association.

School-aged children from the poorest areas are two and a half times more likely to be admitted to hospital in an emergency for asthma than their counterparts in the richest areas, and this gap has grown substantially in a decade, new research has revealed.