Fact checks covering mental health service provisioning, self harm, suicide, anxiety and depression
Health
The review on youth gender medicine did consider all the relevant studies, although almost all were assessed to provide only low- or moderate-quality evidence. Read
Health
Comments about children’s mental health services from the health secretary Victoria Atkins have been changed in Hansard to make them clearer—but also clearly not correct. Read
Health
A Telegraph article reported comments made during the Covid Inquiry, which inaccurately described the content of Age UK’s witness statement. Read
Health
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
Health
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
Health
We do not yet know whether suicides in young people rose in 2021. Suicide registrations did rise, but this may have been caused by delays earlier in the pandemic. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
About 3% of parents taking part in a survey said their children had begun to self-harm in response to the cost of living crisis. Read
Education
The data comes from members of the NASUWT teaching union who chose to complete its survey, so it can’t reliably tell us about the wellbeing of teachers as a whole. Read
Health
Most of the suicides registered in the first half of 2020 occurred in previous years. Read
Health
A post on Facebook shares out-of-date information about contacting the charity. Read
