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Growth in NHS appointments continues to slow under Labour despite Starmer's claims of success
Sir Keir Starmer and his health secretary, Wes Streeting, often trumpet the number of extra NHS appointments since they took office as an example of their success, but the figures tell a different story.
The prime minister today highlighted that four million additional appointments have been made in their first nine months in office - overachieving on their target of two million in a year. But Sky News and fact-checkers at Full Fact have previously shown that the number of extra appointments is slowing under Labour, and our analysis of the latest figures shows that this trend has continued.
The four million extra appointments that Starmer describes is equivalent to an 8.0% rise since Labour took office. This is a smaller increase compared with the 10.6% rise under his predecessor Rishi Sunak during the same period last year, when five million additional appointments were made.
The rate of increase has also slowed since Labour took office. As we reported earlier in the year, the government's original target of two million new appointments was never ambitious - and exceeding it is hardly the boast the government claims.
Full Fact says the pledge "appears very modest.
Amir Nisi
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