Claim: Last winter, tens of thousands of sick patients waited on A&E; trolleys.
Fact-check: NHS video, factchecked - Full Fact
Verdict: there were 196,000 waits of over four hours in accident and emergencies in england in the winter months of 2016/17. these figures are the closest we have to a count of people on trolleys, which isn't specifically recorded.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Unknown
Date published: 2017-05-30T00:00:00