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: Industrial action in the NHS [22/7].
- Letter: Planning for potential ‘collective action’ by general practice from 1 August 2024 [22/7].
- Guidance: NHS IMPACT Improvement Guide for programmes [23/7].
- Guidance: Patient safety incident response framework and supporting guidance [25/7].
Department of Health and Social Care
- Guidance:Pressure ulcers: how to safeguard adults [23/7].
- Press release: Government acts after report highlights failings at regulator [26/7].
UK Health Security Agency
- Guidance:National measles guidelines [25/7].
Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency
- Guidance: Good clinical practice for clinical trials [22/7].
BMA
- Press release:National Training Survey shows ‘warning signs’ for workforce expansion, says BMA[24/7].
Policy, think tanks, charities and representative bodies
Ipsos
- Public prioritise fixing the NHS most of Keir Starmer’s 5 key missions for government [24/7].
- New polling explores the public’s response to the recent King’s Speech and how confident the public are that Keir Starmer’s government can deliver on the 5 key missions.
- When asked which of the 5 missions are most important to them, 69% say ‘building an NHS fit for the future’ and 35% say ‘making Britain’s streets safe’.
- Improving the NHS is even more important to those voting Labour in 2024 (77%).
- Britons are net positive that Labour will do a good rather than bad job on each of the 5 missions – especially ‘building an NHS fit for the future’ (+22).
- The public were asked whether they supported or opposed a range of policies included in the King’s Speech.Most policies were strongly or somewhat supported in principle by a majority of the public with 8 in 10 or more supporting policies to:
- Delivering an extra 40,000 NHS appointments every week, during evening and weekends (86%).
- Voters split on future leader of the Conservative Party and reasons for election defeat [24/7].
- Poor delivery on the NHS and scandals involving the Party are the top reasons why Conservatives lost the 2024 election according to new Ipsos polling.
- For those voting Labour, a range of issues were mentioned by half or more, but the number one issue cited was poor delivery on the NHS (63%).
- For Lib Dem voters, poor delivery on the NHS (59%).
- Public concern about the NHS rises to its highest level post-pandemic [23/7].
- The July 2024 Issues Index, conducted immediately after the July 2024 General Election, reveals a jump in the proportion of Britons who see the NHS as the biggest issue facing the country.
- Almost half (47%) identify healthcare as a concern, an increase of seven percentage points since June and the highest score since December 2019.
- This is the highest level of worry about the health service in the post COVID-19 pandemic era: the previous high was recorded at the time of the 2019 General Election in December (55%).
Nuffield Trust
- A turning tide: is the fall in nursing vacancies cause for applause or anxiety? [26/7].
- Nursing vacancies in England fell by a third in the 18 months to March this year. Such a headline would usually be applauded but we should remain cautious about NHS nurse numbers.
- Over the last parliament, up until March this year, the number of nurses working in the NHS in England increased by nearly 61,000 to around 366,000.
- However, it has been reported recently that newly qualified nurses are struggling to find registered nursing jobs.
- Productivity in the NHS: what’s getting in the way? [23/7].
- The NHS has a productivity challenge – quite simply, more money and more staff are not translating into enough care.
General Medical Council
- Prioritise trainers if plan to increase doctors is to succeed [25/7].
- Plans to boost the UK’s workforce by increasing medical school places will fail if the needs of trainers are not also prioritised.
London Trusts
Barts Health NHS Trust
- Article: Clinicians at Barts Health NHS Trust are helping to reduce the time patients spend in hospital after heart surgery [25/7].
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
- Article: Evelina London Children’s Hospital has launched the UK’s first paediatric bladder neuromodulation service [22/7].
St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust