Health landscape report: 17 – 21 June 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. 
• Policy:Clinical commissioning policy: Ustekinumab for refractory Crohn’s disease in pre-pubescent children[17/6]. 
  • Ustekinumab is not recommended to be available as a routinely commissioned treatment option for refractory Crohn’s disease in pre-pubescent children aged < 6 years old. 

• Meeting:Federated Data Platform Check and Challenge Group – minutes and action notes [18/6]. 
• Guidance:NHS Talking Therapies for anxiety and depression manual[19/6]. 
• Data:NHS England service codes by year 2024/25[19/6]. 
• Guidance: Summary of legal mechanisms for administering Covid-19 and influenza vaccines [20/6]. 
• Form:2023-25 NHS Payment Scheme (amended) [21/6]. 

Department of Health and Social Care  

• Guidance: National flu immunisation programme plan 2024 to 2025 [18/6].

UK Health Security Agency 

• Guidance:Organisation testing registration: record of users[17/6]. 
• Guidance:Pre-release access lists: National flu and COVID-19 surveillance reports[20/6].
  • Lists of those receiving pre-release access to UK Health Security Agency National flu and COVID-19 surveillance reports. 

• Press release: E. coli advice issued amid rise in cases [20/6]. 
  • UKHSA is working with partners to investigate a Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) outbreak. 

• Guidance: Weather-Health Alerting System [21/6].

BMA 

• Article: Over 80% of locum GPs struggle to find work, finds BMA survey [21/6]. 

Policy, think tanks, charities and representative bodies    

The Health Foundation 

• £38bn extra per year needed to revive the NHS [20/6]. 
• An analysis published by the Health Foundation’s REAL Centre projects a potential £38bn shortfall in the funding needed to improve the NHS by the end of the next parliament. 
  • The analysis shows that health care funding in England would need to rise by 3.8% per year in real terms – broadly in line with the historic average – over the next ten years to meet rising care needs and deliver significant improvements in the NHS. 

Ipsos 

• Concern about NHS rises to equal highest since 2020, concern about immigration rises to equal highest since 2017 [17/6]. 
• The NHS continues to be seen as the biggest issue facing the country, according to the monthly Ipsos Issues index. 
  • Concern has risen by six percentage points since May, with 41% seeing the health system as one of the biggest concerns for Britain. 
  • This matches the 42% in January 2023, and previous to that is the highest since February 2020 (44%). 

The King’s Fund 

• NHS funding in the general election 2024 manifestos: what was said and what does it mean? [21/6]. 

YouGov 

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

London Trusts    

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust 

• Article: Two staff members from Guy’s and St Thomas’ have been recognised in the King’s Birthday Honours list [19/6]. 

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust 

• Article: Junior doctors’ strike: 27 June – 2 July [21/6]. 
• Article:Blood group matching for patients with inherited blood disorders [19/6]. 

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 

• Article: Synnovis and data security – information for patients [21/6].