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: Oral healthcare provision for cancer pathways [2/12].
- Guidance:Integrated operational pressures escalation levels (OPEL) framework 2024 to 2026 [3/12].
- Guidance: Public health practitioner’s education and training directory [3/12].
- Report: Violence prevention and reduction standard [3/12].
- Guidance: Principles for assessing and managing risks across integrated care systems [4/12].
- Letter: Flu and COVID-19 vaccinations for eligible frontline health and social care staff [5/12].
- Guidance:Enabling staff movement: A toolkit for sharing staff safely and efficiently [5/12].
Department of Health and Social Care
- Guidance:Social work bursary information packs [4/12].
- Guidance: Medical certificate of cause of death (MCCD): guidance for medical practitioners [4/12].
- Guidance: Excess treatment costs (ETCs) in non-commercial research [5/12].
UK Health Security Agency
- Guidance: Mpox: reducing risk of transmission at vaccination clinics [2/12].
- Guidance: Malaria prevention guidelines for travellers from the UK [3/12].
- News: UK secures H5 influenza vaccine to boost pandemic preparedness [3/12].
- The purchase will boost the UK’s access to vaccines for a wider range of pathogens of pandemic potential.
- News:Latest data shows rise in lead exposure cases in children [3/12].
- Guidance: Pre-release access lists: National flu and COVID-19 surveillance reports [5/12].
- News: Flu vaccine deadline looms as hospital admissions double [5/12].
- Guidance: Referring influenza samples to UKHSA respiratory virus unit [6/12].
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
- Guidance: Good laboratory practice (GLP) for safety tests on chemicals [3/12].
- Guidance:Clinical investigations guidance [4/12].
- Press release: MHRA trials five innovative AI technologies as part of pilot scheme to change regulatory approach [4/12].
BMA
- Press release: BMA responds to GMC’s “cavalier” refusal to set standards for PAs and AAs [6/12].
Policy, think tanks, charities and representative bodies
The Health Foundation
- The Health Foundation responds to Prime Minister’s ‘Plan For Change’ [6/12].
- Most people open to sharing some of their health data to develop AI in the NHS [3/12].
- According to a survey commissioned by the Health Foundation of more than 7,000 members of the public (aged 16 years and older), three-quarters (75%) of the public support sharing some of their personal health data for the development of artificial intelligence systems in the NHS.
- AI is currently being used in health care to support staff with tasks such as clinical decision making, analysing scans and test results, and scheduling appointments.
Ipsos
- Active Lives Children and Young People Survey 2023-24 [6/12].
- Ipsos conducted the seventh year of this ongoing survey on behalf of Sport England during the 2023-24 academic year. Sport England commissioned Ipsos to design and carry out the survey to inform their own strategy and the strategies of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), the Department for Education (DfE) and the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC).
- The report covers the overall amount of sport and physical activity young people are engaged in, different activities prevalent in different year groups, and the attitudes of children and young people towards sport and physical activity.
Smart Thinking
Think Tank: Pro Bono Economics
- Pregnant then blue? [5/12].
- This report highlights the potential of targeted, evidence-based interventions to address maternal mental health effectively.
Think Tank: Centre for Social Justice
- Still ambitious for recovery [2/12].
- This report looks at how to address illegal drug addiction and strengthen law enforcement’s role.
- The UK is facing a drug addiction crisis of unprecedented proportions, with drug poisoning deaths reaching a record 5,448 in 2023, marking an 84 per cent increase over the past decade.
- Alarmingly, over 13,800 babies have been born with neonatal withdrawal symptoms since 2012/13, underscoring the intergenerational impacts of addiction.
Nuffield Trust
- Bringing care closer to home: three questions that need answering [3/12].
- Shifting care from hospitals into community services is central to the government’s plan for fixing the NHS. Previous administrations made similar pledges, yet a real shift from hospital to home has never fully materialised. Sarah Reed and Thea Stein set out three unresolved questions that the government needs to answer to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past.
- What does shifting care into the community actually mean?
- What is moving care out of hospital likely to improve, and what is it unlikely to improve?
- Why have previous efforts failed, and what needs to be different this time?
The King’s Fund
- Why have previous efforts failed, and what needs to be different this time? [4/12].
- This blog highlights the need to rethink health and care by focusing on community involvement and social qualities like trust, compassion, and creativity. It introduces ShiftWorks, an initiative aimed at fostering these qualities within the health and care workforce. The authors argue that leadership is crucial in unlocking the potential of these resources and call for a reimagining of leadership roles to better support the health and care system.
General Medical Council
London Trusts
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust