{"id":135470,"date":"2023-12-18T09:48:59","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T09:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allmybiznews.com\/?p=135470"},"modified":"2023-12-18T09:48:59","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T09:48:59","slug":"snp-slammed-for-nhs-funding-lie-with-tweet-receiving-humiliating-fact-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allmybiznews.com\/politics\/snp-slammed-for-nhs-funding-lie-with-tweet-receiving-humiliating-fact-check\/","title":{"rendered":"SNP slammed for NHS funding \u2018lie\u2019 with tweet receiving humiliating fact check"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The SNP has been called out as liars after a claim about NHS funding north of the border had to be fact-checked by X.<\/p>\n

Yesterday the official Scottish Government account claimed that below-inflation spending increases in England are causing a real-terms cut to funding for the Scottish NHS.<\/p>\n

The account claimed: \u201cIn the UK Government’s Autumn Statement, only \u00a310.8million of extra funding was provided for NHS Scotland for the next year, a real-terms cut.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis would fund just 5 hours of NHS Scotland activity in a year.\u201d<\/p>\n

The post has now received a humiliating fact check, with X users adding a community note to the post describing the claim as \u201cmisleading\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Users pointed out that UK Government budgets do not provide funding for specific policy areas in devolved nations like the NHS, meaning any real-term cuts are the decision of the SNP administration.<\/p>\n

The fact check added: \u201cThe Scottish Government is free to spend the money it receives from UK Government as a result of the autumn statement however it likes.\u201d<\/p>\n

The claim was so inaccurate that prominent journalists, including one from the BBC, called out the lie.<\/p>\n

Philip Sim, a political journalist at the broadcaster, said the claim was \u201cdeserving\u201d of its community note.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cBarnett consequentials are not ring-fenced, that’s the point of devolution.<\/p>\n

\u201cMinisters were previously quite careful to say funding *from* health spending, but that nuance seems to have been lost since they came up with this \u20185 hours\u2019 line.\u201d<\/p>\n

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