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.
- Data: GP Contract Services – England, 2023-24 [19/10].
- Blog: Latest figures show drop in obesity rates among primary school children [19/10].
- Data: Cancer Registrations Statistics, England 2021 [19/10].
- There were 329,665 new cancer diagnoses in 2021: 2,491 more than 2019 and 40,912 more than 2020.
- Bowel cancer is now the third most common cancer.
- Data: Primary Care Dementia Data [19/10].
- 475,573 patients had a recorded diagnosis of dementia on 30 September 2023, an increase of 2,487 patients since 31 August 2023.
CQC
- Article: Planning for winter pressures [19/10].
- Article: Combination of cost-of-living crisis and workforce pressures risks ‘unfair care’ – longer waits, reduced access and poorer outcomes for some [20/10].
Policy, think tanks, charities and representative bodies
King’s Fund
- Event: The King’s Fund annual conference 2023: A health and care service fit for now and for the future [for 1-2/11].
- Blog: Patient experience: who is listening? [19/10].
- Blog: Political parties reveal their health plans as campaigning for the next election gets under way [18/10].
Health Foundation
- Report: Addressing the leading risk factors for ill health – a framework for local government action [15/10].
BMA
- Press release: CQC report shows what happens when staff are unsupported and undervalued, says BMA [20/10].
NHS Providers
- Article: Have your say on ONS population statistics – and help shape the future of health data [20/10].
- Article: How systemic bias harms healthcare [19/10].
Nuffield Trust
- Long read: Chain reaction? Understanding the causes of backlogs through urgent and emergency care [19/10].
Institute for Fiscal Studies
- Report: Policy risks to the fiscal outlook [17/10].
- “The OBR projects that spending on state pensions and health and social care will increase by 5% of national income – equivalent to £137 billion a year in today’s terms – up to 2050 and then continue rising. Accommodating these spending pressures would require deep cuts to spending elsewhere or a big further increase in tax.”
Institute for Government
- Report: Retention in public services [9/10].
London Trusts
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Article: Patients Know Best is live [16/10].
- Patients can now access their health record online through a portal called Patients Know Best.
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
- Article: Help shape community eye services in North Central London [20/10].
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Article: Surgery-free brain stimulation could provide new treatment for dementia [20/10].
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- Article: Blood testing results delays [18/10].
- NHS organisations in SE London are currently experiencing issues receiving blood test results.