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Fact check: NHS appointments rise hailed by government is smaller than last year

Wes Streeting is the Government’s Health Secretary (Lucy North/PA) - (PA Wire)

This roundup of claims has been compiled by Full Fact, the UK’s largest fact checking charity, working to find, expose and counter the harms of bad information.

New data obtained by Full Fact reveals that a 3.6 million rise in the number of hospital appointments – celebrated by the government as a “massive increase” – is actually smaller than the increase achieved the year before.

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