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At least 3.7 million patient referrals in England were waiting to receive non-emergency treatment as of November 2016. It may be as high as 3.9 million. Read
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In September 2016 there were the equivalent of 9,000 more doctors working full-time for NHS hospitals and community health services in England than there were in September 2010. Read
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Government plans will see £5 billion rise in overall health spending in England by 2020, once you adjust for inflation. Read
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The government has misquoted a statement from Simon Stevens in 2015. Read
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There are fewer nurses and doctors specialising in mental health now than in 2010. Read
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Changes to the way these figures are gathered means we don’t know for sure how the number of people accessing mental health services has changed between 2010/11 and 2014/15. Read
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More patients are being seen within four hours at A&E departments, but the percentage of visits processed within that time has been falling. Read
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Roughly one patient every three or four days died as a direct result of malnutrition or dehydration in NHS and non-NHS hospitals in England and Wales across 2015. Read
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Data from 2017 doesn’t necessarily tell us much about public perceptions of the NHS this winter, still less its actual performance. Read
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The government has previously estimated that "health tourism" costs the NHS around 0.3% of NHS spending allocated to specific services. Read
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