Jess Hacker

Health Policy Journalist

Jess joined Full Fact in 2024 as a health policy journalist. Before this she covered health and primary care for GP magazine Pulse and its sister titles. In 2023, she received the PPA Next Gen Award and was named in its 30 Under 30.

27 March 2024

The Gates Foundation did not paralyse 300,000 children in India

There is no evidence to support this at all.

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26 March 2024

Iceland has not banned Covid-19 vaccines

Covid-19 vaccines are still available in Iceland

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22 March 2024

Most junior doctors have not had a 10% pay rise

Although the basic pay of first-year doctors in England did rise by that much last year, most junior doctors had a pay uplift of less than 10%.

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21 March 2024

Israel doesn’t have highest skin cancer rate outside Australasia

Many other countries have higher rates than Israel, according to WHO figures.

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6 March 2024

More confusion over how many people are waiting for NHS treatment

Claims that 7.6 million people are waiting for treatment have resurfaced, but that's the number of courses of treatment people in England are waiting for, with some people waiting for more than one.

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