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Fact check: Number 10 North and football tickets on the NHS?

Round-up of fact checks from the last few days compiled by Full Fact.

Evening Standard · Aug 3

The best way to protect NHS patients’ data

Letter: A genuinely competitive market would prevent any single company’s decisions from putting the system at risk, says Prof Erika Denton

The Guardian - UK · Aug 3

NHS mental health trust plans £25m in cuts to jobs and services

Body providing care in east London and Bedfordshire accused of ‘unfathomable and unacceptable’ move

The Guardian - UK · Aug 3

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Alex Cooper hits back at troll's pregnancy comment

Alex Cooper and her husband, Matt Kaplan, are expecting their first child together.

BANG Premier · Aug 2

EU citizens in UK get letters telling them post-Brexit residency rights were given ‘in error’

After years of building lives in UK, potentially thousands of EU citizens could be told they have no right to remain

The Guardian - UK · Aug 2

Voices: ‘We are keeping people alive longer, not living longer’: Readers on the true cost of caring for a loved one

YOUR VIEWS: As Andy Burnham vows to overhaul social care, our readers shared the raw reality of caring for a loved one, from the exhausting grind of professional care work to a devastating account of watching a wife decline, day after day, in a care home

The Independent UK · Aug 1

‘I felt sick that he was near my mum’: a top amputation surgeon had his own legs removed due to a fetish. Were his patients safe?

Neil Hopper was celebrated for continuing to do his job despite the loss of his lower limbs. But what the people he was treating didn’t know was that his injuries were self-inflicted. Now they and their families are asking questions

The Guardian - UK · Aug 1

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High court clears way for clinical trial giving puberty blockers to children

Legal challenge to King’s College London research study claimed it could harm participants but was rejected

The Guardian - UK · Jul 31

Britain’s quarter century: wealth and widening inequality

In this second part in our series on how the UK has changed in the past 25 years, we look at the finances of both the nation and individuals, before turning to housing and business.

The Conversation · Jul 31

A Long COVID Trial Found Fatigue Improved with Specialist Care While Routine Full Body Scans Added Nothing

In the largest long COVID care trial, fatigue improved across all groups over 12 weeks. Adding routine multi-organ MRI scans produced no benefit.

Medical Daily · Jul 31

Medical colleges condemn scrapping of NHS placements for overseas doctors

Scheme brought in up to 500 foreign-trained doctors a year and was seen as example of British ‘soft power’

The Guardian - UK · Jul 31

Why Andy Burnham is right to want for-profit firms out of social care

Prime minister Andy Burnham announced on Wednesday his commitment to improving England’s social care system.

The Conversation · Jul 30

England on track for record heat-related deaths this summer, official data shows

UKHSA estimates 2,877 fatalities during heatwaves in May and June, almost twice that recorded in 2025 season

The Guardian - UK · Jul 30

First-time mum diagnosed with leukaemia after dismissing ‘common pregnancy symptoms’

Rebecca Robinson was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) just 10 days after giving birth

The Independent UK · Jul 30

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The Independent UK · Jul 29

Elderly patients twice as likely to endure A&E waiting times of more than 12 hours

Patients aged 81 and above frequently endure significant A&E delays and often experience so-called ‘corridor care’

The Independent UK · Jul 29

PM has grasped the social care nettle, but the sting remains in how to pay for it

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: If the prime minister’s vow to overhaul the ‘broken system’ comes to nothing, he could do worse than revisit the 2011 Dilnot Report, whose central recommendations were never implemented but remain strikingly pertinent

The Guardian - UK · Jul 29

Brave New World or Groundhog Day? Burnham revisits old ground in speech on social care

Rightwing media hostility helped sink his reform plans in 2010, but the new PM’s passionate speech suggests there is now clear political will for change

The Guardian - UK · Jul 29

Battles loom over social care, but this fight must be won. At last, we have a PM who believes that

Burnham seems ready to use his power and influence. He understands the depth of this crisis: the task is persuading all those still in denial, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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The Guardian - UK · Jul 29

‘You have to sit quietly until you die’: The families failed by England’s social care system

Carers tell of their struggles to get loved ones the support they need, and the emotional and financial toll caring takes on their own lives

The Conversation · Jul 29

Can social care ever really be fixed? Experts react to the latest in a long line of promises

The Big Conversation on Care is the latest attempt to fix England’s broken social care system. Getting a handle on this issue has been attempted no fewer than 22 times since the 1990s – but Prime Minister Andy Burnham has vowed that this time they’ll find the right answers. But…

The National (Scotland) · Jul 29

Andy Burnham 'blocking Scotland from talks on new UK-wide tax', SNP say

ANDY Burnham has “barred Scotland from talks about a substantial change to the UK tax regime”, the SNP have alleged ...

The Guardian - UK · Jul 29

We must fix social care before allowing assisted dying, says Burnham

Introducing the legislation would be ‘very challenging’ until care system improved, PM says

Cycling Weekly · Jul 29

'Heavy duty' sachets could see cyclists close to maximum recommended intake without having consumed a meal – are electrolyte drinks worth their salt?

With heatwaves becoming ever more common, the importance of hydration creeps up the priorities list. But does this mean we need to add electrolytes, asks India Paine

The Independent UK · Jul 29

Burnham makes emotional pledge to end care crisis that has ‘gone on too long’

The Prime Minister, whose father has Alzheimer’s, said he would end decades of failure to address issues with social care funding.

The Independent UK · Jul 29

Adult social care explained – how it works and what would reform cost?

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