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Alarm sounds over the north’s ‘hidden risk to the NHS’ - but is the government listening?

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Don't miss a thing by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox ‘Data not dates’ has been the mantra for government in recent months, as it monitors the impact of Covid’s third UK wave - or in this part of the country, its fourth - on the health system.

Only ten days ago, health secretary Matt Hancock was extolling at select committee the virtues of improved data collection during the pandemic, claiming it had moved on since the fraught period a year ago when public health directors weren’t even being told who in their areas had Covid.

But concern is growing that ministers are still only looking closely at intelligence from one part of the NHS, for while hospital admissions get plenty of attention, the growing crisis in

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