Claim: A third of people hospitalised with malnutrition in the year to April 2023 were children.
Fact-check: A very small share of malnutrition cases in hospital are in children - Full Fact
Verdict: this is not correct. it comes from foi data reported by the times, which shows that about 3% of malnutrition admissions in england were children in the year to april 2023.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Leo Benedictus
Date published: 2023-08-03T00:00:00