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Full Fact→ Are one in six Scots waiting for NHS care?
Scottish Labour claims one in six Scots are waiting for NHS care, but official figures estimate it’s actually around one in nine, or over 11%.
Full Fact→ No, you don’t need to buy a ‘£100 access card’ to use NHS services
Posts falsely claim the government is introducing a card costing £100 a year to access NHS services. No such card exists. The NHS is still free at the point of use for UK residents.
Full Fact→ Is the government on track to make the NHS App a ‘full front door to the NHS’ by 2028?
Full Fact looks at whether the government is meeting its pledge to transform the NHS App.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘Your Body During Pregnancy’ Graphic Did NOT Appear In Official King’s College Hospital NHS Poster
Did a graphic including a short-haired person, labeled "Your body during pregnancy" appear in an official King's College Hospital NHS poster in the UK, as social media posts claim? No, that's not true: A spokesperson for the King's Colleg
Full Fact→ The NHS 10 Year Health Plan will change how we recruit doctors—but how many medical students are working class?
Full Fact→ NHS England chair mixes up people and cases on the waiting list
Full Fact→ New data reveals rise in NHS appointments hailed by government is smaller than last year’s increase
Figures obtained by Full Fact show how the recent increase in hospital appointments, and Labour’s pledge to carry out “an extra two million”, compare to previous years.
Full Fact→ NHS England corrects working days error in hospital appointments calculation
Full Fact→ The government hasn’t published data to support its claim about the NHS App stopping 1.5 million appointments being missed
Full Fact→ Is Labour right to claim Reform UK would ‘scrap the NHS’?
In the run-up to the local elections, Labour is warning Reform UK would make people pay to use the health service—a claim the party’s strongly denied. Full Fact looks at the evidence.
Full Fact→ Health secretary again overstates size of NHS waiting list
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.