Claim: Understaffing in hospitals at weekends is responsible for 11,000 deaths according to research.
Fact-check: No evidence 11,000 NHS weekend deaths are caused by understaffing - Full Fact
Verdict: the research doesn't say this. it did find 11,000 excess deaths but says to assume these are avoidable "would be rash and misleading".
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Laura O'Brien
Date published: 2015-10-20T00:00:00