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31 July 2024

Study does not show that the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine causes cancer

An online post claims that a study has shown that the Pfizer vaccine causes cancer. That’s not the case.

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26 July 2024

Doctor makes misleading Covid vaccine claims on Diary of a CEO podcast

On Steven Bartlett’s popular podcast, Dr Aseem Malhotra claimed there would have been fewer deaths without Covid-19 vaccines.

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25 July 2024

Promotion for oximeter not endorsed by NHS hospital

A video promoting an oximeter that was supposedly developed by Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust is actually false.

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16 July 2024

GP patient list has not increased by 6.4 million since 2019

NHS data shows the number of patients registered in England has increased by about half this figure in the last five years.

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15 July 2024

NHS performance: how do the four nations compare?

The NHS is run separately in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. For a few measures, we can look at their data side-by-side to see some differences between them.

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9 July 2024

Fake video touts 10-day cure for diabetes

There is currently no known cure for diabetes.

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2 July 2024

What would two million more appointments a year mean for the NHS?

Labour has promised to add two million more hospital appointments on evenings and weekends if it wins the general election. But how much difference would that make?

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25 June 2024

NHS staffing: explained

Full Fact covers the basic things you need to know about the people who work for the NHS.

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25 June 2024

Viral US breast cancer stats misinterpreted

The statistics are estimates and in some cases show several age groups, not just women under 45.

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18 June 2024

We can’t say what proportion of Scots are on NHS waiting lists

Scottish Labour, the Scottish Conservatives and the Scottish Liberal Democrats have claimed about a seventh of all Scots are waiting for treatment or tests.

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