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:Seasonal vaccination invitation [24/9].
- Directions:National Patient Safety Alert – risk of oxytocin overdose during labour and childbirth [24/9].
- Guidance: Paediatric Hearing Services Improvement Programme – letter and guidance [24/9].
- Regulatory: NHS provider directory and registers of licensed healthcare providers [25/9].
- Letter:NHS IMPACT Clinical and Operational Excellence Programme: Learning and improvement networks and improvement analytics and working guides[26/9].
UK Health Security Agency
- Guidance: Management of incidents and outbreaks of communicable disease in secure settings [23/9].
- Guidance:Easy read guide to the shingles vaccine[23/9].
- Guidance:UKHSA’s Vaccine Development and Evaluation Centre (VDEC)[23/9].
- Guidance:Pre-release access lists: Tuberculosis (TB) notifications reported to enhanced TB surveillance systems, UK, 2000 to 2023 [27/9].
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
- News: MHRA opens applications from AI developers to join the AI Airlock regulatory sandbox [23/9].
- Correspondence:Access Consortium: joint pipeline meetings[24/9].
- Guidance: Clinical investigations guidance [26/9].
Policy, think tanks, charities and representative bodies
The Health Foundation
Ipsos
- Mental health seen as the biggest health issue, while Brits continue to worry about overstretched NHS [23/9].
- Mental health overtakes cancer as biggest health concern globally in the wake of COVID-19 according to the 2024 Ipsos Global Healthcare Monitor study.
- Key findings in the UK include:
- Over 8 in 10 Britons believe the NHS is overstretched.
- Declining satisfaction with healthcare quality,
- Growing concern about waiting times.
- Access to treatment a major challenge.
- Increased optimism about future improvements.
YouGov
- What counts as junk food? [26/9].
- The government has laid out a list of foods that it considers junk food – but does the public agree?
- New rules due to come into effect next year aimed at tackling childhood obesity will see adverts for junk food banned online and on TV before 9pm.
Care Quality Commission
- Developing an engagement and health inequalities improvement framework for integrated care systems: progress update [25/9].
- The project aims to develop an improvement framework for integrated care systems to understand how well their engagement with people and communities is helping to reduce health inequalities.
- Through focusing on local communities, understanding what people need, and what is working, ICS can improve services and reduce health inequalities for the people they serve.
Nuffield Trust
- Health care prioritisation: no easy answers but plenty of difficult questions [26/9].
- Following a speech by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Sally Gainsbury reflects on how there are no easy answers to questions about prioritising scarce health care resources.
The King’s Fund
- Climate change and heat-related mortality: will ‘summer crises’ become part of the NHS’s future? [27/9].
- Ambulances are bringing care closer to home [26/9].
- How can providers whose primary purpose is to deliver life-or-death care help the health and care system deliver more preventive and holistic care nearer to people’s homes?
- In 2023, 31% of incidents resulted in a ‘see-and-treat’ response, which is when an ambulance crew responds to a call face to face but the patient is not conveyed to A&E.
- An additional 12% of incidents resulted in a ‘hear-and-treat’ response, where patients are given support or referred to other services over the phone.
Reform
- Prescription for prevention: a digitally enabled model of primary care [11/9].
- Better technology can open up more capacity for clinicians, enable earlier intervention in the progression of illnesses, and monitor patients more effectively to avoid preventable decline. But in order to achieve this ambition, there are less ‘cutting edge’ but equally critical interventions to be made.
London Trusts
Barts Health NHS Trust
- Article: Last week marked the official opening of a state-of-the-art intensive care unit and respiratory ward at Newham Hospital [24/9].
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust