Claim: One in 10 pagers currently being used across the world are owned by the NHS.
Fact-check: Labour fails to back up claim that the NHS owns 10% of the world's pagers - Full Fact
Verdict: labour has not provided evidence which backs up this claim. the figure was used by the department of health and social care four years ago, and may stem from coverage of a clinical messaging company's 2017 report, which is no longer in circulation. other more recent figures from us pager companies suggest the nhs may account for far fewer than 10% of the world's pagers.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Joe Gammie
Date published: 2023-06-22T00:00:00