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Health tourism: what's the cost?
The government has previously estimated that "health tourism" costs the NHS around 0.3% of NHS spending allocated to specific services. Read
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All I want …is a donation to Full Fact
Jill's Full Fact fundraising party raised over £2000. Here's her story. Read
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Intercepted evidence can’t be used in court
Concern that a new surveillance law permits prosecutors to lie in court about evidence from intercepted communications is misplaced. Read
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Facebook announces plan to fight fake news: with factcheckers
Facebook has launched a pilot to warn users stories are disputed. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
Best laid plans... for reducing the deficit
The deficit did fall while the Coalition was in power, but not by as much as originally planned. Read
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Health
Delayed transfers of care: does geography matter?
There seems to be a 20 fold difference in delayed discharges from hospital between the best and worst performing councils. We’ve asked the Department of Health for more information. Read
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Prime Minister's Questions, factchecked
We've factchecked social care funding, UK development aid spending and mobile phone coverage. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
Mobile phone coverage
Is the UK really worse than Romania for mobile phone signal? A recently published report says yes. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
UK development aid spending
The aid budget is going up by a lot, but it isn’t set to have "more than doubled" from 2010-2020. Read
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Health
A £2.5 billion shortfall in social care funding?
The Local Government Association, and several other expert groups, predict a significant gap in funding for adult social care by 2020. Read
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