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.
- News: NHS launches catch up campaign for missed MMR vaccines [22/1].
- Guidance: NHS screening programmes: information for GPs and practice staff [25/1].
- Report: NHS England annual report and accounts 2022 to 2023 [25/1].
Department for Health and Social Care
- Press release: 500,000 women benefit from cheaper hormone replacement therapy [24/1].
UK Health Security Agency
- Guidance:COVID-19: testing for hospices [24/1].
- Guidance: Post exposure prophylaxis for chickenpox and shingles [24/1].
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
- Press release: MHRA introduces new restrictions for fluoroquinolone antibiotics [22/1].
Policy, think tanks, charities and representative bodies
NHS Confederation
- Article: Health and care sector latest developments [26/1].
NHS Providers
- Article: Social care must be reformed and adequately funded [23/1].
- Article: Record-high A&E waiting times symptom of wider pressures [25/1].
Nuffield Trust
- Press release: Troubling misalignment on NHS funding fuels short-termism and distrust [25/1].
BMA
- Press release: Junior doctors in England announce reballot of members for six months’ more strike action [24/1].
London Trusts
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Article: Impressive new theatres close to completion [24/1].
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
- Article: Measles cases on the rise in London – find out how to get vaccinated [25/1].
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
- A teenage boy is one of the first patients in the world to undergo deep brain stimulation with a rechargeable device at Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Article: Research breakthrough for brain cancer patients [26/1].