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Calculations posted on social media have led to claims that the government is spending twice as much on private healthcare as on GP services. But this depends on exactly how you count the spending, and in some cases the claims aren’t quite right.

Dr Steve Taylor posted on X (formerly Twitter) and Facebook that NHS spending on GP services per patient was approximately £160, making the spend per patient per day 45p. He also wrote that NHS spending on “private healthcare providing NHS care” was about £320 per person and so 90p per person per day.

These figures were shared and reported by a number of others.

Dr Dan Goyal shared the figures on X, claiming: “The U.K. govt are currently spending twice as much on Private Healthcare as they do on the entire Primary…

Another day, another online debate about splitting the bill.

A number of posts claiming the money spent on the Covid-19 Test and Trace programme could fund a 15% pay rise for every NHS worker for 35 years have been shared on social media again.

Posts shared on Facebook a number of times in early July said: “The money the Tories wasted on the failed Test & Trace would have paid for a 15% pay rise for every NHS worker from now until 2058.”

And an image posted to Facebook in May contains the claim: “The money the Tories spaffed on Test & Trace would have paid for a 15% pay rise for every NHS worker from now until 2058.” This wording is identical to a viral claim we looked at in January.

These claims are not true. As we’ve written many times before, the total budget over two years for NHS Test and Trace was £37 billion,…

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