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.
- Policy: Adult Critical Care Transfer services [21/10].
- Guidance: Assurance engagement of the Mental Health Investment Standard (MHIS) – briefing for integrated care boards [22/10].
Department of Health and Social Care
- Press release:
- Guidance: Change NHS: help build a health service fit for the future [21/10].
- Guidance: Ambulance Service Long Service and Good Conduct Medal [22/10].
- Eligibility criteria and qualifying service changes to the Royal Warrant for the Ambulance Service (Emergency Duties) Long Service and Good Conduct Medal.
- Correspondence: UKHSA priorities in 2024 to 2025 [24/10].
- Letter from Health Minister Andrew Gwynne MP confirming the UK Health Security Agency’s role and priorities for the financial year 2024 to 2025.
UK Health Security Agency
- Guidance: COVID-19 vaccination: autumn programme resources [23/10].
- News: Flu and COVID-19 surveillance report published [25/10].
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
- Guidance:Statutory Instrument laid in Parliament provides first regulatory framework of its kind that will transform the manufacture of innovative medicines at the point of patient care [21/10].
- Standard: Implementation of medical devices future regime [22/10].
Cabinet Office
- Press release: Government opens applications for £100,000 interim payment to the estates of victims of Infected Blood Scandal [24/10].
Policy, think tanks, charities and representative bodies
The Health Foundation
- Health Foundation responds to Care Quality Commission State of Care report 2023/24 [24/10].
- Health Foundation responds to ONS life expectancy data in England and Wales [23/10].
Ipsos
Care Quality Commission
- Risk of “failing the future” if children and young people don’t get the care they need, CQC warns [25/10].
- The Care Quality Commission’s annual assessment of the state of health and social care in England looked at the quality of care over the past year.
- Many children and young people are not currently getting the support they need.
- Children who do not receive the care they need today are at increased risk of becoming adults with long-term mental or physical illnesses, which could affect their quality of life and their ability to contribute to society tomorrow.
- Parents said they felt pressured to go private and found it difficult to get appointments, even in emergencies, and that children were left in pain while waiting for an emergency appointment.
Nuffield Trust
- How much more money does the NHS need? [25/10].
- With plenty of speculation already about what next week’s Budget will mean for the NHS, Sally Gainsbury describes the numbers and context that need to be considered before any figures that emerge next week can be fully judged.
- There is set to be a £4.8 billion unfunded shortfall in the NHS England revenue budget for 2024/25, raising the prospect that without further funding, service cuts may be inevitable.
The King’s Fund
- Supporting people back to work: the intersection of health and economic policy [23/10].
- There has been a flurry of ministerial suggestions for how the NHS could help ‘get sick Brits back to health and back to work’. This includes Wes Streeting suggesting unemployed people could get weight loss jabs to help them back into work, Liz Kendall suggesting mental health patients could have job coaches onwards and follows an announcement at the Labour Party Conference that teams looking at how to improve elective wait times through increasing surgeries would be targeted at areas of economic inactivity.
- Five things the ‘biggest ever conversation about the future of the NHS’ needs to succeed [21/10].
- The government has just launched Change NHS, ‘the biggest ever conversation about the future of the NHS’. Open to the public, staff and wider health and care organisations, it is focused both on hearing from people on what could be improved and on hearing views on the three key shifts that the government wants to make to how the NHS operates (from treatment to prevention, from analogue to digital and moving care closer to home).
- This exercise can be the start of how the NHS can work differently with the people it serves. So, what would a successful process look like?
- It does not limit itself to what the system wants to hear;
- There is equality of voice;
- It achieves the right balance between local and national;
- It is clear how decisions are made based on what has been learnt;
- It drives a cultural change.
London Trusts
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Article:King’s College Hospital patient, Jude Allen, 14, has been announced as a winner at the prestigious WellChild Awards [22/10].
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust