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13 June 2025

How many hospitals are in Kemi Badenoch’s constituency? It depends on who you ask

At this week’s Prime Minister’s Questions, Sir Keir Starmer mentioned new scanners being installed in “two hospitals in the constituency of the Leader of the Opposition”. Kemi Badenoch replied: “Perhaps …

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Kemi Badenoch official portrait
12 June 2025

NHS England chair mixes up people and cases on the waiting list

The chair of NHS England, Dr Penny Dash, said at the NHS ConfedExpo Conference yesterday (22:45): “There are seven and a half million people on the waiting list.” This was …

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4 June 2025

Telegraph overstates resident doctors’ pay demands

The union representing resident doctors is not asking for an extra 29% on top of this year’s 5.4% pay rise, as the paper reported. The demand is for a 29% rise on last year’s pay.

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An organiser arranges BMA-branded placards calling for better pay outside a hospital in central London in 2023.
29 May 2025

Can vitamin A ‘prevent and treat’ measles?

We look at a misleading claim in an Instagram video about vitamin A and measles.

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23 May 2025

New data reveals rise in NHS appointments hailed by government is smaller than last year’s increase

Figures obtained by Full Fact show how the recent increase in hospital appointments, and Labour’s pledge to carry out “an extra two million”, compare to previous years.

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Keir Starmer in Downing St on day of election
22 May 2025

Yes, biopsies are necessary for diagnosing cancer

A misleading video downplays the importance of biopsies and claims they spread cancer.

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21 May 2025

Does the UK really have the 12th largest ‘female health gap’ in the world?

Unreliable research from a male wellness company, which claimed that women are less healthy than men in the UK, has been widely shared by MPs, the media and institutions around the country.

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15 May 2025

NHS England corrects working days error in hospital appointments calculation

NHS England has corrected a mistake in its calculation of the number of extra hospital appointments delivered so far by the Labour government, after Full Fact challenged the error.NHS England …

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15 May 2025

No, the US Supreme Court has not ruled that Covid vaccines are ‘not vaccines’

Familiar misinformation about Covid vaccines being gene therapy is circulating again.

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Vials of Covid vaccine
8 May 2025

The government hasn’t published data to support its claim about the NHS App stopping 1.5 million appointments being missed

Last week the Government announced that “reform” of the NHS App has prevented 1.5 million hospital appointments from being missed. It also made a number of other claims about the …

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