Claim: Five million patients in England were denied a GP appointment when they tried to make one in October.
Fact-check: Labour's analysis on five million 'denied' GP appointments fact checked - Full Fact
Verdict: this figure is an estimate which is not reliable. it's based on survey data from earlier this year, includes some patients who were offered an appointment they did not take and assumes every appointment request came from a different patient. we've not seen a way to reliably estimate this figure with recent available data.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Leo Benedictus
Date published: 2022-12-14T00:00:00