Facts on NHS performance and satisfaction

Jeremy Hunt muddled the numbers on botched surgeries

The former health secretary said the NHS operates on the wrong part of someone’s body four times a day. It’s actually four times a week.

Up to 260 UK patients per year experience vision loss because of healthcare delays

Glaucoma is the most common main diagnosis for such patients.

Are NHS waiting lists the longest they have ever been now?

This article is part of our Ask Full Fact series on the 2019 general election, answering your questions about the election, from claims the main parties are making to what happens on polling day.

We can’t say patients are waiting over two weeks to see a GP on average

Reports that the average wait to see GPs has passed the two-week mark aren’t based on reliable evidence.

Is the NHS introducing price lists for treatments?

A “price list” for a select range of treatments attracted a lot of headlines. But these are only if the patient doesn’t qualify to have the treatment on the NHS and have existed since at least 2013.

Are three million more patients using good or outstanding hospitals?

This is how many more admissions there were in 2017/18 to hospital trusts which improved their rating to good or outstanding between 2013 and 2019, than admissions to trusts with falling ratings.

It’s unclear exactly how NHS England plans to save 500,000 lives

NHS England hasn’t published much detail on how it calculated the figure.

Winter 2017/18: the worst ever for the NHS?

In collaboration with the Nuffield Trust we looked at whether or not this winter was the worst ever for the NHS in England.

NHS viral image factcheck

This viral graphic on the NHS since 2010 has been shared over 11,000 times on social media, but how many of its claims are correct?

Has the NHS been judged the best healthcare system in the world?

It depends who you ask, and what they’re judging to be important for a healthcare system.