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Health
The health minister Maria Caulfield said that NHS England waiting times were falling “drastically”. The latest data does not support this. Read
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The MP said that Amanda Pritchard earns £86,000. But her annual earnings in 2021/22 were actually more like £255,000. Read
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A video on social media makes several false claims about the Covid-19 vaccines, citing a video from Canada. Read
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Diagnostic and treatment waiting lists have both grown, but the government says they’d be even longer without the additional checks and scans delivered by CDCs. Read
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A print article claimed that poor NHS standards were the reason for almost 100,000 excess cardiovascular deaths since 2020, but it didn’t mention that Covid itself might have caused most of them. Read
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The website said that a third of homeworkers don’t have their own workspace. But this was based on research looking at office workers in general. Read
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Rishi Sunak says the government’s “cutting waiting lists”. That’s true in the case of some specific NHS waiting lists, but not for the main list overall. Read
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A widespread meme on social media is clearly wrong when it suggests there is no evidence that the Covid vaccines saved any lives at all. Read
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A document released by the Health Ministry in 2021 said that it did not have its own culture of the virus. This was misinterpreted in a blog and on social media. Read
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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
