The Daily Telegraph reveals secret Whitehall documents showing NHS plans to refuse elderly care home residents hospital care in the event of a pandemic. People in their 70s would have treatment withdrawn in favour of “end of life pathways”, according to the documents, which the paper says were created in 2017 and 2018 and sent to government advisers. Dr Moosa Qureshi – who obtained the documents – said it was “unprofessional” that medics were not told about the plans. The NHS said the strategy had not informed its pandemic response; while No 10 said the plans “never represented agreed government policy”.