for england highlights growing waits for planned care, delays to cancer diagnoses — and a surge in demand for mental health services. more details from our health correspondent, katharine da costa. some days she couldn't walk. getting angry, she was crying sometimes. the children caught up in delays and disruption caused by the covid pandemic. sometimes ijust see tears rolling down his face. gone from the child he was to pretty much a recluse. he's more interested in your fingers. eight—year—old thomas from leeds was diagnosed with leukaemia three years ago. his fortnightly hospital appointments moved to monthly video calls during the pandemic. his mother says without face—to—face checkups problems with his bladder and liver weren't spotted. it's like all the time in the back of my head, how long has this been going on? would it have been detected sooner had he have been seen? as a mother, i want to take