Fact checks about increases and decreases in funding of the NHS, including the number of hospitals being built and record levels of funding
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About 18% of total public expenditure goes to health, though health accounts for almost 40% of day-to-day departmental budgeted spending. Read
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The five-year tirzepatide trial is being funded in full by a pharmaceutical company called Lilly, not the taxpayer. Read
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There is some confusion online regarding the Nightingale hospitals and how many people they treated during the pandemic. Read
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The government hasn’t said what data his claim was based on, but he may have been referring to figures from a Labour party FOI request in 2022. Read
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Tobacco duties generate around four to five times as much money as smoking costs the NHS to treat. Read
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The starting salary for an NHS diversity officer in England seems to be around £25,000. Read
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The largest NHS IT contract ever awarded was £330 million and was not awarded to Infosys. Read
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It seems that the Treasury minister made a common mistake by expressing NHS England as a percentage of all budgeted spending, not public spending as a whole. Read
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First-year junior doctors earn about £15.53 an hour in basic pay only—but the average junior doctor earned at least about £44,500 in the year to September 2023. Read
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The BMA accused the chancellor of being ‘misleading’ over claims doctors had received an above inflation pay rise. Read
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