Claim: People who have a stroke at the weekend are 20% more likely to die than if it happened on a weekday.
Fact-check: Ask Full Fact: stroke patients and weekend deaths - Full Fact
Verdict: academic research backs that up, although it's difficult to say why. it's possible that people treated at the weekend are more seriously ill on average.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Laura O'Brien
Date published: 2016-01-14T00:00:00