Health landscape report: 15 – 19 April 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.
• Guidance: General practice vaccination and immunisation services: standards and core contractual requirements [15/4].
• Guidance: Shared workforce model for employing pharmacy professionals via the Additional Role Reimbursement Scheme: optional guidance for employers [17/4].
• Guidance: NHS providers of highly specialised services and the UK-wide commissioning arrangements [18/4].

Department for Health and Social Care 

• Guidance: Attributing the costs of health and social care research [15/4].
  • A mechanism for the department to meet some of the costs of charity-funded research in the NHS.
• News: MPs to vote on landmark bill to create smokefree generation [16/4].
  • MPs to vote on legislation to create first smokefree generation, protecting young people turning 15 this year or younger from harms of smoking.

UK Health Security Agency 

• Guidance: Contacts: UKHSA health protection teams [16/4].
• News: Latest measles statistics published [18/4].

BMA

• News: GPs in England go into dispute with NHS England over contract [17/4].

Policy, think tanks, charities and representative bodies    

The Health Foundation  

• 700,000 more workers are projected to be living with major illness by 2040 [17/4].
  • Nearly 25% more working-age adults will have diagnosed major illness by 2040 – up from 3 million to 3.7 million.
  • 80% of this increase will be in more deprived areas, with significant implications for labour markets and entrenching stark health inequalities.
  • Health Foundation warns of major health and economic consequences without action across government, public services and employers.

Kings Fund

• The latest proposals on health devolution: solution or provocation? [18/4].
• How influential is public health within local health systems? [17/4].

London Trusts    

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 

• Article: New Chair appointed for King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust [17/4].
  • Sir David Behan has been appointed as the new Chair of King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust

• Article: Ealing Hospital has teamed up with the charity Supporting Children with Diabetes (SCD) to provide financially challenged families with free mobile phones to help manage their children’s condition [16/4].

St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

• Article: An “amazing” team of surgeons, doctors, nurses and therapists saved the voice of sports commentator Martin Tyler – and a career that has spanned more than 50 years to date [16/4].

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

• Article: UCLH trial of world-first treatment for Alzheimer’s disease progresses into larger trial [17/4].