Health landscape report: 14 October – 18 October

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. 
• Guidance: Planning and implementing real-world artificial intelligence (AI) evaluations: lessons from the AI in Health and Care Award [16/10]. 

Department of Health and Social Care 

• Press release: Landmark collaboration with largest pharmaceutical company [14/10]. 
• Guidance:NHS injury costs recovery scheme [15/10]. 
• Guidance: Review of patient safety across the health and care landscape: terms of reference [15/10]. 
• Press release:Major crackdown on NHS waste [16/10]. 
• Press release: Government pledges further action to strengthen patient safety [15/10]. 
• Correspondence:Assisted dying bill debate: advice to doctors [16/10]. 
• Press release:Virtual reality and wearable technology pilot to cut drug deaths [18/10]. 
• Guidance: Primary Dental Services Statement of Financial Entitlements (Amendment) Directions 2024 [18/10]. 

UK Health Security Agency 

• Guidance: Mpox: guidance on when to suspect a case of mpox [14/10]. 

Policy, think tanks, charities and representative bodies  

Ipsos 

• Two thirds of the UK public continue to think assisted dying should be legal, provided certain conditions are met [14/10].  
• The majority of the UK public continue to believe it should be legal for a doctor to assist a patient aged 18 or older in ending their life by prescribing life-ending medication that the patient could take themselves (66%), provided certain conditions are met. 

 YouGov 

• Tracker: How the government is handling the issue of health in the UK. 

 The King’s Fund 

• The climate crisis: a critical threat to mental health [14/10].  
  • The UK Health Security Agency warns that climate change poses a major threat to health and wellbeing in the UK, particularly for those with pre-existing conditions, older people and underprivileged communities. 
  • There’s growing evidence that the climate crisis significantly impacts mental, as well as physical, health. Anxiety, depression and other mental health challenges are exacerbated due to climate emergencies. 
  • To facilitate this, The King’s Fund recently hosted a roundtable event in collaboration with the Climate Cares Centre, bringing together government policymakers and experts in both climate and mental health to explore potential integrated policy responses. 

 London Trusts    

Barts Health NHS Trust 

• Article: Nurses and Allied Health Professionals are supercharging the role of clinical research at Newham hospital in a bid to transform health and care delivery for patients and staff [18/10]. 

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust 

• Article:Evelina London Children’s Hospital has launched Europe’s first multidisciplinary clinic for children with a rare condition [16/10]. 

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust 

• Article:Clinical staff at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust have been promoted by Imperial College London in the latest round of academic promotions for 2024[15/10].