Health landscape report: 11 – 15 March 2024

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.  

Please feel free to share any useful stats/links you think we could include in future reports.  

Official bodies    

NHS Digital 

• All recent data releases can be seen here. 
• Policy: Corporate records management policy [12/3]. 

• The NHS England corporate records management policy sets out the organisational records management requirements for the joint organisation and provides advice and guidance to all NHS England staff on the creation, management, storing and disposal of records. 

• Letter:Ensuring safe and effective integration of Physician Associates [12/3]. 
• Guidance:Urgent and emergency care winter incentive – operational measurement guidance [12/3]. 

Department for Health and Social Care 

• Press release: New action to tackle ethnic and other biases in medical devices [11/3]. 
• Press release: Urgent call to smokers to make a quit attempt for No Smoking Day [13/3]. 
• Press release: Community diagnostic centres deliver more than 7 million checks [14/3]. 

• Patients benefit from tests and scans at 155 centres now open in England, with AI scanners on the way to further bolster diagnostic offer. 

• Press release: £20 million boost for adult social care and unpaid carers [15/3]. 

UK Health Security Agency 

• Press release: New research to develop vaccines against deadly henipaviruses [13/3]. 

Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency 

• Press release: Quizartinib approved to treat adult patients with a type of blood cancer [11/3]. 
• Press release: Disgraced company director convicted of falsifying medicine quality data [15/3]. 

• A company director and his pharmaceutical manufacturing company were sentenced in court after pleading guilty to two charges of falsifying data that supported the shelf life of a medicine, adversely affecting its quality in order to obtain a licence to sell the medicine in the UK. 

Policy, think tanks, charities and representative bodies    

NHS Confederation 

• Press release: Invest in equality, diversity and inclusion, urge health leaders [13/3]. 

• NHS leaders responded to an NHS Confederation survey asking for their views on the current state of equality and diversity across the health service. 

• Press release: Expanded role for ambulance services could benefit patients and staff [15/3]. 

• NHS ambulance leaders are calling for a fresh approach to designing and delivering urgent and emergency care. 

King’s Fund 

• Blog:Beneath the surface: what does the 2023 NHS Staff Survey really tell us? [14/3]. 

NHS Providers 

• News:Freedom for staff to ‘speak up’ essential for patient safety [14/3]. 

Nuffield Trust 

• Report:Review of North Central London’s Start Well maternity and neonatal care reconfiguration proposals against the Mayor’s first four tests[15/3]. 

London Trusts    

Central and North West London London NHS Foundation Trust 

• Article: CNWL secures Stop Smoking services in Hillingdon [11/3]. 

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust 

• Article: E-cargo bikes could help staff get to patients faster [12/3]. 

• Guy’s and St Thomas’ trialled an e-cargo bike to test whether it will help staff beat London traffic to get to patients faster – while reducing carbon emissions from travel. 

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust 

• Article:North West London Pathology joins Paddington Life Sciences Partners [15/3]. 

• One of the largest NHS pathology providers in the UK is the latest member to join the partnership group. 

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust    

• Article: UCLH and Whittington Health make case for closer collaboration [15/3].