Fact checks related to the infrastructure of health care and potential impacts of privatisation
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FOI information obtained by Labour contained errors, which made it appear that a patient had waited continuously in A&E when in fact they left the hospital and returned the following month. Read
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It may cost nearly half a million to train a surgeon, but not any doctor, as the former health minister also said. It also does not look likely that almost half of UK doctors later move to Australia o Read
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The health minister Maria Caulfield said that NHS England waiting times were falling “drastically”. The latest data does not support this. Read
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The Pharmacy First service will mean people in England can get NHS prescription medicines for some conditions from a community pharmacy without seeing a GP. But some pharmacists can prescribe already. Read
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Earlier this month the Royal College of Emergency Medicine estimated delays are causing 300-500 deaths a week - but NHS leaders say they “don’t recognise these numbers”. Read
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Funding the NHS for years would cost far more than the total amount spent—let alone “wasted”—on PPE and Test and Trace during the pandemic. Read
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A headline suggesting otherwise is not accurate. There is a reported shortage of appointments for new NHS patients, however. Read
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The majority of people in hospital with Covid are vaccinated—but early reports suggest that the majority in intensive care are unvaccinated. Read
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There are some important caveats to figures showing GP appointments drop off later in the week. Read
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Labour claims that the Budget took £30bn out of day to day health spending, this is true if you include the withdrawal of last year’s Covid money. Read
