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Inaccurate data is so not the story here. A journalist who clearly had no understanding of NHS data had a bright idea, asked a question, got the answer, drew an unwarranted conclusion and published a completely inaccurate scare story. If they'd bothered to check their logic with anyone who did understand NHS data that unwarranted conclusion would have been nipped in the bud... But I guess that wouldn't have sold many papers.

Perhaps you could shine some of that editorial spotlight on journalist practices, their understanding of data and analysis or even the nominal cost to the NHS of the pointless activity generated from all those knees which jerked in the wake of this story.