The former health secretary wrongly claimed that the NHS in England operates on the wrong part of a patient's body four times a day.
24 January 2020 | Facts and news from Full Fact
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** Jeremy Hunt intends to correct muddled numbers on botched surgeries
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Last week, former health secretary Jeremy Hunt claimed that the NHS in England operates on the wrong part of a patient's body four times a day.
It’s incorrect. In the English NHS, surgeons actually operate on the wrong part of someone’s body four times a week, according to figures for April to November 2019.
We are grateful to Mr Hunt’s office, who confirmed to us that he misspoke, and told us that he intends to correct the record. We’ll be keeping an eye out to ensure that this happens.
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** It’s very unlikely that fewer knife offenders are facing jail ([link removed])
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New figures on sentencing for certain types of knife crime were released last week. This prompted the shadow home secretary Diane Abbott to criticise the government, saying that the number of offenders is rising while fewer offenders are going to jail.
The number of these offences that are dealt with in the criminal justice system is rising, but it’s probably not correct that fewer offenders are facing jail. In fact it’s highly likely that more are, and a greater proportion of offenders are.
Ms Abbott used figures that don’t show the full extent of prison sentences that offenders will face.
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** Limited evidence that lie detectors will be effective on terror offenders ([link removed])
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This week the government announced that it wants to introduce lie detector tests into the probation system for convicted terrorists, sparking debate over their effectiveness.
Lie detection—or polygraph—tests are already used in England and Wales for certain sex offenders on parole, and are being trialled for other offences. They record people’s physiological reactions to questions, such as their blood pressure, heart rate and skin respiration. Some of these can be indicators of deception, but there’s no guarantee of that.
“A specific ‘lie response’ has never been demonstrated, and is unlikely to exist”, according to researchers at Newcastle University.
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