Fact check: NHS waiting lists have fallen for six months in a row - A graph shared by Labour is not fully labelled and seems to stitch together two different datasets.

The NHS was founded in 1948, and we simply don’t have waiting times data going back that far. And some of the later data was collected in different ways, which means it often isn’t possible to compare ...

The data used in Labour’s graph from January 2024 to July 2024 – the blue part of the line – appears to match those from the dataset measuring the number of patients on the waiting list.

The NHS was founded in 1948, and we simply don’t have waiting times data going back that far. And some of the later data was collected in different ways, which means it often isn’t possible to compare ...

The graph is labelled as “size of NHS waiting list” with a smaller text saying “number of cases waiting to start treatment. Source: NHS England.” It is unclear why Labour elected to ...

The graph does not make it clear that this is what has been done. The graph is labelled as “size of NHS waiting list” with a smaller text saying “number of cases waiting to start treatment. Source: ...

The data used in Labour’s graph from January 2024 to July 2024 – the blue part of the line – appears to match those from the dataset measuring the number of patients on the waiting list.

The data used in Labour’s graph from January 2024 to July 2024 – the blue part of the line – appears to match those from the dataset measuring the number of patients on the waiting list.