Health landscape report: 15-19 January 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. 
• Report: The expectations of line managers in relation to people management [16/1]. 
• Guidance:Guidance for risk assessment and infection prevention and control measures for measles in healthcare settings [18/1]. 

Department for Health and Social Care 

• Press release: Health Secretary announces new women’s health priorities for 2024 [17/1]. 

• Problem periods, women’s health research and support for domestic and sexual abuse victims are among the government’s priorities. 

UK Health Security Agency  

• Guidance: Malaria prevention guidelines for travellers from the UK [16/1]. 
• Guidance: Mpox (monkeypox): diagnostic testing [16/1]. 

• Information on taking, submitting and processing samples which potentially contain monkeypox virus. 
• Press release:Measles outbreak could spread warns UKHSA Chief Executive[19/1]. 

Policy, think tanks, charities and representative bodies    

NHS Confederation 

• Case study: Innovation through robotic-assisted operations to address health inequities [18/1]. 

NHS Providers 

• Article: Welcome fall in ambulance handover delays but winter pressures on NHS persist [18/1]. 

Nuffield Trust 

• Blog: Why our conversations about productivity in the NHS are not very productive [17/1]. 

London Trusts    

Barts Health NHS Trust 

• Article: Supporting patients during rail strikes [15/1]. 

• Have highlighted that their hospitals will remain open during the period of planned rail strikes. 

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 

• Article: Hot Topics in Global Health conference: Exploring challenges and priorities in low resource settings [16/1]. 

• The Hot Topics in Global Health conference is set to take place on 13 and 14 May 2024 at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. 

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust 

• Article: New £3 million funding to expand rapid genetic testing to more patients [18/1]. 

Whittingham Health NHS Trust 

• Article: Hospital beds freed up by better monitoring [16/1].