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: General practice: seasonal influenza vaccination programme enhanced service 2024/25 – additional guidance on recording of influenza vaccination events, payments and collaboration [20/8].
- Guidance: Diabetic eye screening: retinal image grading criteria [20/8].
UK Health Security Agency
- Guidance: Mpox: background information [19/8].
- The epidemiology, symptoms, diagnosis and management of monkeypox virus infections.
- Guidance:Influenza vaccines marketed in the UK [20/8].
- Press release: Students urged to protect themselves from deadly meningitis [21/8].
- Guidance: Vaccine update: issue 348, August 2024, back-to-school special [22/8].
BMA
- Press release: Referendum on pay offer for junior doctors in England begins [19/8].
- Press release: UK health systems languishing behind neighbours despite heroic efforts of staff, says BMA in response to Commonwealth Fund report [22/8].
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
- Press release:Lecanemab licensed for adult patients in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease [22/8].
- The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has today, 22 August 2024, approved a product licence for the medicine lecanemab (Leqembi) for use in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease, following a thorough review of the benefits and risks.
Crown Commerical Service
- Press release:Crown Commercial Service to boost NHS commercial skills and efficiency [22/8].
Policy, think tanks, charities and representative bodies
The Health Foundation
- UK among worst performing high-income countries on waits for hospital care [22/8].
- On general practice, the UK is one of the better performing countries for people reporting same or next day appointments (42%), however the report highlights several areas where the UK performs less well.
Ipsos
- 4 in 10 Britons support hiring more Physician Associates to support GPs – but six in ten don’t know what they do [19/8].
- Ipsos polling in collaboration with the Press Association highlights the lack of knowledge among the British public regarding PAs.
Care Quality Commission
- More people report poor discharge experiences and deterioration in health while waiting for treatment but interactions with staff are largely positive [21/8].
- The 2023 adult inpatient survey captures the views and experience of more than 63,500 people who stayed in one of 131 acute and specialist NHS trusts in England for at least one night during November last year. The survey asked people to give their opinions on the care they received, including quality of information and communication with staff, whether they were given enough privacy, the amount of support given to help them eat and drink, and on their discharge arrangements.
London Trusts
Barts Health NHS Trust
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust