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Closing summary

We’re closing this live blog down now. Thanks for reading and commenting. Here’s a summary of the day’s events:

• Rules governing contracts awarded by the NHS are to be relaxed and private sector involvement expanded, the health minister Maria Caulfield said. She told Sky News: “We are using the independent sector because they have got capacity. We’re spending about £19bn a year, which sounds like a huge amount, it’s actually only 8% of the NHS budget.”

• NHS waiting lists will rise further in the…