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
- All recent data releases can be seen here.
- Guidance: Measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccination invitation [11/6].
- Guidance: NHS England fit and proper person test framework for board members [11/6].
- Guidance:Patient Safety Incident Response Framework and supporting guidance [11/6].
- Guidance: Industrial action in the NHS [13/6].
Department of Health and Social Care
- Guidance: National flu immunisation programme plan 2024 to 2025 [13/6].
UK Health Security Agency
- Guidance: Flu vaccines for children and young people for 2024 to 2025 [10/6].
- Guidance: Information for individuals who have whooping cough [14/6].
- Guidance: Influenza vaccines marketed in the UK [12/6].
- Press release: E. coli advice issued amid rise in cases [14/6].
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
- Guidance: Software and artificial intelligence (AI) as a medical device [13/6].
BMA
- Article:BMA responds to Conservative Party General Election manifesto[11/6].
- Article:BMA responds to Green Party General Election manifesto [12/6].
- Article: BMA responds to Labour Party manifesto [13/6].
Policy, think tanks, charities and representative bodies
The Health Foundation
- The waiting list for routine hospital care remains at near record levels at 7.57 million.
- While there has been some progress in recent months, there is still a huge mountain to climb with over 300,000 waits of over one year – compared to less than 2,000 before the pandemic.
- More than one in 10 patients now spends over 12 hours in A&E.
- Health Foundation response to the Labour election manifesto [13/6].
- Health Foundation responds to ONS update on economic inactivity due to long-term sickness [11/6].
- Health Foundation response to the Conservative election manifesto [10/6].
- Health Foundation response to the Liberal Democrat election manifesto [10/6].
The King’s Fund
- Are integrated care systems making progress on tackling health inequalities? [13/6].
- Inequalities in men’s health: why are they not being addressed? [12/6].
- Almost half of England’s population is male, yet inequalities in men’s health seldom get specific attention.
- Reducing inequalities in men’s health offers significant potential for health improvements and increased economic productivity resulting from a healthier workforce.
Nuffield Trust
- Is French-style health care the answer? Why we should stop idealising other health systems [12/6].
- With debates ahead of the general election, arguments around health care funding models, particularly the idea of adopting a French-style social health insurance system becomes a main topic.
Institue For Government
London Trusts
Barts Health NHS Trust
- Article: A Barts Health team that performs thousands of vital heart scans every year has been recognised for the quality of their medical images [13/6].
- Article: Barts Health staff have been recognised in the 2024 King’s Birthday Honours list [15/6].
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
- Article: Guy’s and St Thomas’ has welcomed Louise Dark as the new Chief Executive of its Integrated and Specialist Medicine Clinical Group [13/6].
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Article:King’s Birthday Honours for Trust’s director of nursing and critical care consultant [14/6].
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Article: Custom-built robot could help people living with eye disease [12/6].
- Experts at King’s College Hospital and King’s College London are using robot radiotherapy to improve patients’ experience while also reducing cost.