Simon Stevens has warned the NHS is back "in the eye of the storm" as coronavirus cases increase.

The chief executive of NHS England paid tribute to "fantastic" intensive care nurses and doctors; paramedics, therapists, porters and cleaners in what he described as the "toughest year".

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