Integrated care systems (ICSs) have bid to become part of a national programme that will fund elective activity 20% above pre-Covid levels.
The NHS is now embarked on a grand planning exercise involving a series of returns to NHS England.
Tributes have been paid to NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens who is to stand down in July after seven years in the post.
One year on from the first national lockdown, Nice has published a single guideline for the management of Covid-19 in children and adults.