This report is a flexible summary, with the aim of sharing and highlighting a wide range of data and policy information relating to London general practice published in a given week. Where we view information to be of significant interest it is reproduced directly below the links to make the key points quicker to digest.
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Official bodies
NHS Digital
- Guidance: National infection prevention and control [2/7].
- Guidance: General practice enhanced service specification: Seasonal influenza vaccination programme 2024/25 [2/7].
- Press release: Antenatal maternity services annual standards return 2023 to 24 [3/7].
UK Health Security Agency
- Guidance: Flu vaccination: letter template for at risk patients and carers [1/7].
- Guidance: Complete routine immunisation schedule [1/7].
- Guidance: Routine childhood immunisation schedule [4/7].
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
- News:Man who illegally imported unlicensed medicines from India, the Middle East and the Far East sentenced [1/7].
- Guidance:Notify MHRA about a clinical investigation for a medical device [2/7].
BMA
- Press release: GMC’s refusal to recognise doctors’ concerns about its regulation of PAs ‘deeply disappointing’, says BMA [2/7].
- Press release: 13,000 doctors write to party leaders to express “grave concern” over use of physician associates [2/7].
Policy, think tanks, charities and representative bodies
The Health Foundation
Ipsos
- During the run up to the election, Ipsos looked at common perceptions and misperceptions that might be affecting voters’ views about the NHS.
- A substantial majority, 89% are concerned about the pressure that the NHS is currently under.
- To ease this pressure, 46% support the health service using private companies to provide NHS services to help the NHS treat more patients
- New polling has found that 70% of the British public believe immigrants to the UK put additional pressure on the NHS.
- 32% believe that migrants use the NHS more than those born in the UK.
- However, the public do recognise the contribution to the NHS from immigrants: 75% believe that the NHS relies on migrant workers.
Nuffield Trust
- The NHS and social care are issues of burning importance for the public, who are dismayed by the current state of both.
- We tracked the manifesto pledges of five of the leading political parties in England against a set of criteria we have developed to assess policy on – NHS workforce, social care, general practice and dentistry, and waiting times.
- Published during the short campaign itself, we set out six specific tests for any new government to tackle the crisis in general practice: restoring the ability of patients to access their own doctor; tackling patients’ poor experience of accessing general practice; improved use of digital technology; addressing the problem of declining GP numbers; ensuring new roles are deployed safely, fairly and efficiently; and avoiding a structural reorganisation of general practice.
London Trusts
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- A clinical trial using a new device to perform deep brain stimulation (DBS) on children with epilepsy has begun.