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Department of Health and Social Care
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Fact check: SNP leadership debates
Ferret Fact Service looked at claims made by the SNP leadership candidates in the recent TV debates.
Claim governments admitted Covid-19 virus was not real is False
Ferret Fact Service looks at a claim that governments have admitted the Covid-19 virus does not exist.
More than one million patients unable to opt out of NHS plan to share personal data
A £63m plan to allow access to NHS medical records has been criticised for failing to offer patients a choice over whether data is shared with researchers.
“My mother didn’t want me to be cut”: female genital mutilation in the UK
Official data reveals that over 22,000 women and girls in the UK have undergone female genital mutilation - but the tide is turning against this abusive practice.