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:NHS population screening: how to order printed leaflets [17/2].
- Template:Experience of care improvement framework[18/2].
- Guidance: Guidance on neighbourhood multidisciplinary teams for children and young people [19/2].
- Guidance: Better Care Fund 2025 to 2026: minimum NHS contributions from integrated care boards [20/2].
- Letter:Arrangements for NHS urgent primary dental care during 2025/26 and confirmation of the closure of the New Patient Premium scheme [21/2].
Department of Health and Social Care
- Press release: 10-year study to shed light on youth vaping [19/2].
- Landmark study to investigate long-term health effects of vaping on young people’s health and wellbeing, alongside wider influences on adolescent health.
- Press release:Dental patients to benefit from 700,000 extra urgent appointments [21/2].
UK Health Security Agency
- Guidance: National flu immunisation programme plan 2025 to 2026 [19/2].
- The annual flu letter describes the national flu immunisation programme and outlines which groups are eligible for flu vaccination.
- News: Flu and COVID-19 surveillance reports bulletin 2025 [20/2].
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
- Guidance: Regulating medical devices in the UK [17/2].
- Guidance:Register medical devices to place on the market[17/2].
- Guidance: Clinical investigations guidance [20/2]
BMA
- Press release:BMA says doctors are ‘devastated’ by the ‘appalling’ exam mistakes made by the Federation of Royal Colleges of Physicians of the UK [20/2].
Policy, think tanks, charities and representative bodies
Ipsos
- Patients struggling with NHS admin [17/2].
- New Ipsos polling for the King’s Fund, National Voices and Healthwatch England has explored people’s experiences of NHS admin, and the impact of that on their views of the NHS.
- Around half (52%) think the NHS is good at communicating with patients about things like appointments and test results.
- Just 43% think the NHS is good at ensuring there is someone for patients to contact about their ongoing care and 28% think it is poor at this.
- While 42% think the NHS is good at keeping people informed about what is happening with their care and treatment, 32% think it is poor at this.
Nuffield Trust
- What does the NHS staff survey tell us about the changing behaviours and motivation of health care staff? [20/2].
- Over the past decade younger NHS staff have reported lower job satisfaction, higher stress levels, and greater dissatisfaction with pay than their older colleagues, according to this new analysis of over a million NHS staff survey responses. Do these trends reflect changing generational attitudes to work, or are they in fact shaped by wider workforce and societal pressures? This read explores the relationship between age and staff experience and what it means for workforce retention and policy.
The King’s Fund
- Neighbourhood health: the idea isn’t radical but implementing it would be [21/2].
- To accompany the long-awaited NHS planning guidance for 2025/26, NHS England published its Neighbourhood health guidelines, setting out how it expects NHS bodies to put these ideas into practice.
- Using population health management tools; improving access and continuity in general practice; strengthening core community services; establishing integrated multidisciplinary teams to support people with complex needs; offering intermediate care (encompassing short-term rehabilitation, reablement and recovery services); delivering urgent community-based services for people with escalating or acute health needs (including urgent community response and hospital at home/virtual ward services) – these are the six core components of neighbourhood health that NHSE’s guidance asks systems to focus on delivering consistently and at scale over the next year for people with complex health and social care needs
- Bytes and bandages: the role of tech in elective care recovery [19/2].
- The latest NHS elective recovery plan was published, an initiative designed to address the ongoing challenges and long waits for routine care. The government’s flagship aim is to meet the national standard of 92% of people being seen for planned treatment within 18 weeks of referral by March 2029, with an interim target of 65% by March 2026. The plan outlines actions and commitments active until March 2029, and aims to deliver transformative reforms by focusing on four key areas: empowering patients by giving them more choice, reforming care delivery, providing care in the right settings, and adjusting incentives around finance, performance and delivery standards.
London Trusts
Barts Health NHS Trust
- Article:Each of their hospitals continues to be incredibly busy during this winter period yet they are also helping each other out in unprecedented ways [19/2].
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Article: Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust are limiting routine self-referrals to their maternity units at St Mary’s Hospital and Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea Hospital temporarily from today, Tuesday 18 February 2025 [18/2].
- Article:Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust has extended its roll out of the 24/7 service that helps patients, relatives and carers get direct access to senior clinicians if they are concerned that ward staff aren’t recognising that a patient’s condition may be getting worse [21/2].