Claim: Four million people are on the waiting list for NHS treatment.
Fact-check: Four million on hospital waiting lists - Full Fact
Verdict: this is correct, although the figure refers to each referral rather than individual patients. around 3.7 million referrals in england were waiting to receive non-emergency treatment as of november 2016. including those hospital trusts that didn't submit information, the nhs thinks that there may be 3.9 million on the waiting list.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Conor James Mckinney
Date published: 2017-01-13T00:00:00