Claim: 620,000 more people were waiting for NHS elective care in January compared to when Rishi Sunak became Prime Minister in late 2022.
Fact-check: BBC Breakfast gets the increase in people waiting for NHS treatment wrong - Full Fact
Verdict: this isn't right. the 620,000 figure refers to the number of cases, not people, and doesn't account for some missing data. as of january 2024, there were around 300,000 more individual people in england waiting and 360,000 more cases than in october 2022.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Jess Hacker
Date published: 2024-04-15T00:00:00