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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
Blair Institute report did not recommend closing most GP surgeries
The report recommended that NHS England develop a new contract which would help GP practices serve a patient population of around 250,000.
Scientists have not discovered that ‘autism can be reversed’
A US study published in June was limited in scope, and experts say autism cannot be reversed, or cured.
Mpox isn’t misdiagnosed shingles
A video has been widely shared on social media, in which a German doctor claims that shingles cases are being wrongly diagnosed as mpox.
