Claim: A report this week found 120,000 unnecessary deaths are happening every year because of austerity.
Fact-check: Is austerity linked to 120,000 unnecessary deaths? - Full Fact
Verdict: an academic paper has estimated there were around 120,000 more deaths in total between 2010 and 2017 than there would have been had the mortality rate between 2001 and 2010 continued. restrictions on health and social care spending is one of a number of possible explanations for this, and the findings need to be treated with a bit of caution.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Amy Sippitt
Date published: 2017-11-17T00:00:00