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There’s been widespread confusion in the media about the demands made by striking senior doctors. Their union has confirmed that they are campaigning for an above inflation uplift, but not necessarily Read
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New claims about junior doctor pay in England, including from a Labour MP, are potentially misleading. Read
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Research covered by the Sun was exploratory and established no definite associations between people’s jobs and their risk of ovarian cancer. 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 MP said that Amanda Pritchard earns £86,000. But her annual earnings in 2021/22 were actually more like £255,000. Read
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A video on social media makes several false claims about the Covid-19 vaccines, citing a video from Canada. Read
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Diagnostic and treatment waiting lists have both grown, but the government says they’d be even longer without the additional checks and scans delivered by CDCs. Read
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A print article claimed that poor NHS standards were the reason for almost 100,000 excess cardiovascular deaths since 2020, but it didn’t mention that Covid itself might have caused most of them. Read
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The website said that a third of homeworkers don’t have their own workspace. But this was based on research looking at office workers in general. Read
