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: Framework for managing the response to pandemic diseases [15/7].
- Guidance:Down’s syndrome screening quality assurance support service [16/7].
- Guidance:Primary medical care policy and guidance manual: protocol in respect of locum cover or GP performer payments for parental and sickness leave – annexes [16/7].
- Policy or strategy: 10-year strategic plan for the drug and alcohol treatment and recovery workforce (2024–2034) [18/7].
- Guidance: Annual assessment of integrated care boards 2023-24: supporting guidance [19/7].
- Guidance: NHS England fit and proper person test framework for board members [19/7].
Department of Health and Social Care
- Press release: National RSV vaccination programme announced [17/7].
- A national respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine programme protecting infants and elderly people will save lives in the UK.
- Press release: Health and Social Care Secretary visits Berkshire hospital [19/7].
- Secretary of State Wes Streeting spoke to staff and patients before meeting regional health leaders.
UK Health Security Agency
- Guidance:Immunisations for teenagers and young people [15/7].
Office for Health Improvement and Disparities
Ofsted
Policy, think tanks, charities and representative bodies
The Health Foundation
- The Health Foundation responds to the publication of Baroness Hallett’s first Covid Inquiry report [18/7].
- The Health Foundation’s response to the 2024 King’s Speech: No wealth without good health [17/7].
Ipsos
- 36% of Britons say Keir Starmer is doing a good job as Prime Minister – almost twice as many as said the same about Rishi Sunak in May.
- Highest number to think Prime Minister is doing a good job since Boris Johnson in early 2021 (37%) – during the COVID-19 vaccine rollout.
The King’s Fund
- When it comes to poverty, the NHS tends to be seen as part of the solution, and not as a contributor to poverty stigma.
- Health care staff, services and structures are not immune to the framing of people living in poverty as having made bad lifestyle choices – and of there being people that are either deserving or underserving of support.
- ‘Labour will tackle the social determinants of health, halving the gap in healthy life expectancy between the richest and poorest regions in England.’
London Trusts
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
- Article:Opening of Aspen Ward in Park Royal Mental Health Centre [19/7].
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
- Patients are now having their condition assessed whilst in the queue to the emergency department (A&E), following an innovative trial which showed this dramatically improves waiting times.
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Article: Charing Cross Hospital attains prestigious Pathway to Excellence designation for nursing excellence [18/7].
St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust