The Sun reported that a third of hospital admissions with malnutrition involved children. In fact the share, as originally reported by the Times, was about 3%.
, following contact from Full Fact. The other has not been corrected at the time of publication.
Media outlets must be accurate when reporting on the prevalence of health conditions, so that people see a fair picture of the problems in society. And when mistakes happen, they must be corrected quickly.Honesty in public debate mattersThe provisional data described in the Sun articles wasproject, the Times reported that 10,896 NHS patients in England were hospitalised with malnutrition between April 2022 and April 2023.Malnutrition is rarer in children than it is in adults.
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