Health landscape report: 16 September – 20 September

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:Principles for providing safe and good quality care in temporary escalation spaces [16/9]. 
• Guidance: Managing conflicts of interest in the NHS: guidance for staff and organisations [17/9]. 
• Regulatory: NHS provider directory and registers of licensed healthcare providers [19/9]. 

Department of Health and Social Care 

• Press release:Junior doctors accept government pay deal [16/9]. 
• Speech:Secretary of State for Health and Social Care’s address to IPPR [18/9]. 
  • Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Wes Streeting, spoke at the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR)’s State of Health and Care Conference 2024. 
• Guidance:Healthcare for UK nationals living in Germany[19/9]. 
• Guidance:New Hospital Programme review: terms of reference [20/9]. 

UK Health Security Agency 

• Guidance: Smallpox and mpox: the green book, chapter 29 [16/9]. 
• Guidance: Meningococcal disease: guidance on public health management [17/9]. 
• Press release: UK secures more vaccines to help boost resilience against mpox [16/9]. 

Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency 

• Press release:MHRA launches new Strategy for Improving Safety Communications on World Patient Safety Day: Improving information to patients and healthcare professionals[17/9]. 

BMA 

• Press release: “Junior” doctors change name to “resident” doctors [18/9]. 

Policy, think tanks, charities and representative bodies  

YouGov 

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

Smart Thinking – Think tank: IPPR 

• Our greatest asset: the final report of the IPPR Commission on Health and Prosperity [17/9].  
• This report contends that better health is Britain’s greatest untapped route to prosperity and that the nation’s health challenges have reached historic proportions, and change is needed. 

Care Quality Commission 

• New resource aimed at encouraging improvement in NHS maternity services [19/9]. 
• The CQC have published a series of online resource materialsaimed at sharing good practice and encouraging improvement in NHS hospital maternity services.   
  • Based on evidence from their national inspection programme and engagement with providers, maternity staff and stakeholder organisations, the resources are based around 4 themes:  leadership and culture, safety incidents, triage processes and procedures and healthcare equity.  
• Action needed now to prevent harm in maternity services becoming ‘normalised’ [19/9]. 
• A programme of inspections by the CQC has found continued concerns about the quality of NHS hospital maternity services with common issues impacting on safety at services across the country. 

The King’s Fund 

• Embracing hope, navigating challenges and inspiring change [18/9]. 
• Author Charlotte Wickens reflects on the two-day King’s Fund’s annual conference featuring special guest, Sir Keir Starmer who joined on the second day to deliver his first health and care speech since taking office following the publication of the Darzi review.   
• Malnutrition – the ‘Pandora’s box’ of health care we try not to open [17/9].  
  • Around 1 in 20 adults in the UK are estimated to be malnourished or at risk of malnutrition, and its impact can be profound.   
  • The cost of treating someone who is malnourished is around three times the cost of treating someone who isn’t.   
  • Yet malnutrition is not such a high priority for health care staff, particularly those who do not provide frontline care. Nor is it one of the key health trends mapped by the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities. 

London Trusts    

Barts Health NHS Trust 

• Article: The Royal London Hospital has become the first in Europe to use an innovative balloon guide catheter (BGC) called EMBOGUARD in clinical practice [18/9]. 

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust 

• Article:Urgent blood samples will be transported by electric drones in a medical delivery service which aims to improve patient care by speeding up turnaround times [16/9]. 

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 

• Article: Prime Minister Keir Starmer described King’s as “fantastic” and a “good example of collaboration” after meeting a nine-year-old boy from Dublin who was treated for a rare illness at King’s College Hospital [16/9].