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Daily Mail journalist Melanie Phillips says any argument in support of drug legalisation is either "full of holes or demonstrably bogus." Full Fact looks at the highs and lows of the drug debate. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
Has the Coalition kept its pledge to ring-fence the NHS budget? Full Fact first covered this dispute in March 2011 when the head of the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), … Read
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Andrew Dilnot, Chair of the body charged with upholding the quality of the UK's Official Statistics - the UK Statistics Authority - has today written to the Health Secretary Jeremy … Read
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If the number of nurses has declined by 2%, but the nurse-to-bed ratio has increased, doesn't that just mean the number of beds has also declined? Read
Economy, Business & Finance
Winter can be fatal for some, but estimating its impact is more difficult than it may initially seem. Read
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After the Health Secretary announces a new NHS Mandate, Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats claim that mental health patients are now set to gain the same rights to timely treatment as other patients. Are they right? Read
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Several newspapers have reported that each year the deaths of up to 24,000 diabetes patients could be prevented by better treatment. But when exactly is a death "avoidable"? Read
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Labour Leader Ed Miliband chose mental health as the topic of his first major speech since his address to the Labour Party conference last month. But are mental health problems as widespread as he claims? Read
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Social media website Twitter this week threw up an interesting claim on the state of food inequality worldwide. However is it really true that 2012 represents the first point in human history in which obesity has killed more than malnutrition? Read
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In an article about the welfare bill of "problem families", the Daily Telegraph reported that 1.5 million children are growing up with a parent who's addicted to drugs or alcohol. Where's this statistic from and does it stand up to scrutiny? Read
