Wes Streeting

Health

How many more GPs has the government recruited?

By Leo Benedictus • 4 mins

The government claims it has put 3,000 GPs into general practice, but that figure is a headcount of the GPs recruited through a specific scheme. The overall net increase in full-time equivalent GPs is less. Read

Health

Official child obesity figures include tens of thousands of children who aren’t clinically obese

By Leo Benedictus • 9 mins

Ministers and the NHS have repeatedly said one in five children leave primary school obese—but data obtained by Full Fact casts doubt on that claim. Read

Immigration

Immigration returns aren’t at ‘record levels’ under Labour

By Hannah Smith • 3 mins

Health secretary Wes Streeting claimed Labour has carried out “record levels” of returns and deportations, but that’s not what government data shows. Read

Health

Keir Starmer has abolished NHS England, not the NHS itself

By Jess Hacker • 2 mins

The quango that makes decisions about the NHS in England has been abolished, but the NHS still exists. Read

Health

Wes Streeting overstated the number of people on the NHS waiting list under the Conservatives

By Leo Benedictus • 4 mins

There were actually 6.4 million people on the NHS England waiting list last July, not 7.6 million as the health secretary claimed last month. That was the number of cases. Read

MPs listed in viral image didn't 'vote' against deportation of foreign rapists

By Evie Townend • 4 mins

Those named on the list signed a letter asking the government to halt the deportation of foreign criminals, some of whom were rapists, until a report into the Windrush scandal had been published. Read