A consortium of British companies have been knocked out of the hotly contested competition to win a £480m contract to provide the NHS with a new data platform. 

We discuss who is left in the running, including a number of American tech firms with little or no experience of working with the NHS. 

Also this week - an update on how the NHS has coped with the junior doctors’ strikes this week, and a quick look at the latest performance data, which for the first time has revealed the extent of the 12 hours waits in A&E.