Claim: There were 2.7 million more patients every year using good and outstanding hospitals at the end of Jeremy Hunt's tenure as Health Secretary than at the beginning.
Fact-check: Are three million more patients using good or outstanding hospitals? - Full Fact
Verdict: this is how many more admissions there were in 2017/18 to hospital trusts that had improved their rating to good or outstanding  than admissions to trusts that had dropped their rating to requires improvement or inadequate.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Claire Milne
Date published: 2019-07-09T00:00:00