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Full Fact→ MP corrects Facebook post about the NHS waiting list
Full Fact→ Keir Starmer has abolished NHS England, not the NHS itself
The quango that makes decisions about the NHS in England has been abolished, but the NHS still exists.
Full Fact→ Keir Starmer has abolished NHS England, not the NHS itself
The quango that makes decisions about the NHS in England has been abolished, but the NHS still exists.
Full Fact→ Keir Starmer has abolished NHS England, not the NHS itself
The quango that makes decisions about the NHS in England has been abolished, but the NHS still exists.
Full Fact→ Wes Streeting overstated the number of people on the NHS waiting list under the Conservatives
There were actually 6.4 million people on the NHS England waiting list last July, not 7.6 million as the health secretary claimed last month. That was the number of cases.
Full Fact→ How severe is the pressure on the NHS this winter?
Full Fact looks at what the data says about how A&E departments and the ambulance service have performed this winter.
Full Fact→ Guardian article suggesting white people should be treated last by the NHS is fake
A screenshot implying a columnist has argued white people should be at the back of the queue for NHS treatment has been shared online, but it’s not real.
Full Fact→ The NHS doesn’t ‘gobble up’ 40% of total public expenditure
About 18% of total public expenditure goes to health, though health accounts for almost 40% of day-to-day departmental budgeted spending.
Full Fact→ NHS England report on waiting lists confuses patients and cases
An interactive report available on the NHS England website claims to show the number of patients awaiting treatment, but uses figures for the number of cases instead.
Full Fact→ NHS England corrects waiting list data error
The health service acted quickly after Full Fact brought its attention to a mistake in the calculation of the number of people on the waiting list.
Full Fact→ £1.7 billion isn’t really the right figure for the total cost of NHS strikes
It doesn’t include the junior doctors’ strikes in the summer of 2024, and the overall cost would include a range of other factors.
Full Fact→ Was Keir Starmer right to claim agency staff cost the NHS ‘£5,000 a shift’?
The government hasn’t said what data his claim was based on, but he may have been referring to figures from a Labour party FOI request in 2022.
Full Fact→ How does revenue from tobacco duties compare to the cost of smoking to the NHS?
Tobacco duties generate around four to five times as much money as smoking costs the NHS to treat.
Full Fact→ NHS diversity officers don’t all make £96,000
The starting salary for an NHS diversity officer in England seems to be around £25,000.
Full Fact→ Promotion for oximeter not endorsed by NHS hospital
A video promoting an oximeter that was supposedly developed by Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust is actually false.
Full Fact→ NHS performance: how do the four nations compare?
The NHS is run separately in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. For a few measures, we can look at their data side-by-side to see some differences between them.
Full Fact→ What would two million more appointments a year mean for the NHS?
Labour has promised to add two million more hospital appointments on evenings and weekends if it wins the general election. But how much difference would that make?
Full Fact→ NHS staffing: explained
Full Fact covers the basic things you need to know about the people who work for the NHS.
Full Fact→ There are about 6.3 million people on the NHS England waiting list
Several Facebook posts have repeated the familiar claim that there are “seven and a half million people on NHS waiting lists”.
Full Fact→ We can’t say what proportion of Scots are on NHS waiting lists
Scottish Labour, the Scottish Conservatives and the Scottish Liberal Democrats have claimed about a seventh of all Scots are waiting for treatment or tests.
Full Fact→ Child poverty, NHS waiting lists and government spending: BBC Scottish leaders’ debate fact checked
The leaders of five parties in Scotland faced audience questions during an hour-long episode of BBC Debate Night.
Health Feedback→ NHS data doesn’t support Epoch Times’ claim that myocarditis only occurs after COVID-19 vaccines
REVIEW Initial clinical trials demonstrated that COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective against severe disease[1,2], leading to their authorization and approval by health authorities in many countries. Post-marketing surveillance confirmed that th
Full Fact→ Labour campaign video doesn’t accurately reflect NHS waiting list data
There are about 7.5 million cases on the main NHS England waiting list—but only about 6.3 million people waiting. Some people are waiting for more than one thing.
Full Fact→ Out-of-date warning on NHS data circulates again
Warnings urging patients to opt out of an NHS data sharing plan are out of-date.
Full Fact→ Full Fact secures measles correction from NHS England
A statement about 3.4 million “unprotected” children now explains what the number really means.
Full Fact→ NHS England measles figure causes confusion over encephalitis risk
A charity’s claim that 10,000 children could develop encephalitis as a result of catching measles is based on an incorrect NHS estimate for the number of “unprotected” children.
Full Fact→ NHS waiting lists: what you need to know in 2024
A guide to how waiting lists and waiting times are measured, how they’ve changed in recent months and what we know about the impact of strikes and the pandemic.
Full Fact→ BBC Breakfast gets the increase in people waiting for NHS treatment wrong
Figures quoted by presenter Naga Munchetty last week refer to the number of cases, not people.
Full Fact→ Do we know which nation is happiest with the NHS?
Claims on NHS satisfaction from both the Conservatives and Labour weren’t quite as simple as they seemed.
Full Fact→ Company owned by Sunak’s in-laws hasn’t been given a multi-billion pound NHS contract
The largest NHS IT contract ever awarded was £330 million and was not awarded to Infosys.
Full Fact→ The NHS England waiting list was effectively stable in February
Although the number of cases awaiting non-emergency treatment in England technically fell by about 36,000, about 36,000 cases were also excluded from the data. If measured consistently, it would have
Full Fact→ The NHS Test and Trace app was not the third most expensive project in history
An inaccurate claim regarding the cost of the NHS Covid-19 app has been recirculating on social media.
Full Fact→ NHS England was wrong to claim its data showed 3.4 million children are ‘unprotected’ against measles
It seems the health service actually calculated that 3.4 million children might have missed at least one vaccine dose.
Full Fact→ More confusion over how many people are waiting for NHS treatment
Claims that 7.6 million people are waiting for treatment have resurfaced, but that's the number of courses of treatment people in England are waiting for, with some people waiting for more than one.
Full Fact→ The NHS Covid-19 app didn’t cost £37 billion
An old myth that the NHS Covid app cost £37 billion has resurfaced. In fact, that’s the budget for the first two years of the entire Test and Trace programme.
Full Fact→ Bim Afolami overstates NHS in England as a share of ‘everything the government spends’
It seems that the Treasury minister made a common mistake by expressing NHS England as a percentage of all budgeted spending, not public spending as a whole.
Full Fact→ NHS waiting list was not falling before the pandemic
Oliver Dowden said that the numbers waiting for elective care in England were falling ‘on many measures’ before the pandemic. We’re not sure which measures he means. On the main measure, they were not
Full Fact→ Widespread confusion over number of ‘people’ on NHS waiting lists
The latest figures show there are 7.8 million cases waiting for planned treatment in England—but only 6.5 million people, because some are waiting for more than one thing.
Full Fact→ Are patients in Wales twice as likely to be on an NHS waiting list as those in England?
The health secretary has not explained what his claim was based on, but the best comparable data we can find suggests those in Wales are around 60% more likely to be on a waiting list.