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Health
Rishi Sunak says the government’s “cutting waiting lists”. That’s true in the case of some specific NHS waiting lists, but not for the main list overall. Read
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A widespread meme on social media is clearly wrong when it suggests there is no evidence that the Covid vaccines saved any lives at all. Read
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A document released by the Health Ministry in 2021 said that it did not have its own culture of the virus. This was misinterpreted in a blog and on social media. 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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Sir Keir Starmer claimed the suicide rate is “going up”, based on a rise since 2007. But data for the last few years gives a mixed picture. Read
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A viral claim on social media that 652 people died in the UK’s worst week of the pandemic is far too low. The true figure is almost 10,000. Read
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The launch of the government’s new primary care plan prompted a raft of apparently contradictory claims about GP numbers. Read
Most junior doctors are paid more than the equivalent of ten tins per hour, even if you only consider basic pay. Read
The photograph of a girl who’s supposedly just been found in a number of locations is at least seven years old. Read
Data in a response to a Freedom of Information request contained a calculating error, which has since been corrected. Read
