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Health misinformation can ruin lives and damage health services. Our health team fact checks claims about health including funding and delivery, and dangerous medical claims, and makes recommendations to improve the quality of public information about health. We are grateful to the Health Foundation and the European Media and Information Fund for their support of this work.
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Latest health fact checks
A ministerial mistake is on the Parliamentary record—but was it due to an editing mix-up?
Comments about children’s mental health services from the health secretary Victoria Atkins have been changed in Hansard to make them clearer—but also clearly not correct.
NHS waiting lists: what you need to know in 2024
A guide to how waiting lists and waiting times are measured, how they’ve changed in recent months and what we know about the impact of strikes and the pandemic.
BBC Breakfast gets the increase in people waiting for NHS treatment wrong
Figures quoted by presenter Naga Munchetty last week refer to the number of cases, not people.