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Ben Winters, director of AI and data privacy at the Consumer Federation of America, told NewsNation that AI companies running the services are "hungry for data."

His colleague Kevin Winters said his clients would now "refocus" on the stalled High Court civil action and "today's findings will really help recalibrate that case".

This, it says, made bottlenecks worse in A&E and for ambulances trying to hand over patients and that delays for those handovers were worse than in previous winters.

Hospital patients with the winter vomiting bug norovirus were also more numerous than in many winters.

But hospital admissions for the respiratory virus RSV were similar to previous winters, and Covid admissions remained relatively low.