Data

Analysis

Nine million requests a month: are GP online consultations actually getting people seen?

A year after every practice in England was told to keep its online form open all day, requests have nearly trebled, patients say contact is easier, and GPs are in open dispute with the government. We went through the data to answer the question that matters: after you press submit, do you get seen?

Analysis

Whose inflation is it anyway? How the number is made, and why it never feels like yours

Official inflation is 3.1%. The public thinks it is 4.9%, and most people say their costs rose again last month. Both can be right. A deep dive into how the ONS builds the figure, who it does and doesn't describe, and what the evidence says about the gap between the statistic and the shopping trip.