Londonwide LMCs

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.
Data: Network Contract DES (MI) – June 2023 [27/7].
Blog:Start small and build big – how a health creation approach can help tackle inequalities [28/7].
Data: General Practice Workforce [27/7].
- 35,999 FTE GPs – 1.6% more than June 2022
- 27,153 FTE Fully qualified GPs (excludes GPs in Training Grade) – 1.5% fewer than June 2022
Data: Appointments in General Practice [27/7].
- 29.7 million appointments were estimated to have been delivered by Practices and Primary Care Networks in June 2023.
- 29.7 million appointments were estimated to have been delivered by Practices and Primary Care Networks in June 2023.
- 69.0% of all appointments in June 2023 were carried out face to face.
Data: Primary Care Network Workforce [27/7].

Office for National Statistics

Data: Rising ill-health and economic inactivity because of long-term sickness [26/7].

- The number of people economically inactive because of long-term sickness has risen to over 2.5 million people, an increase of over 400,000 since the start of the pandemic.

Health Education England

Data: Strong take-up of GP training as almost 100% of posts UK-wide filled early, covered by GPonline [25/7].
- In England, 3,427 out of a total 3,433 GP training places that begin in February have been filled.

Policy, think tanks, charities and representative bodies

Queen Mary University

Report: Building Equitable Primary Care – a practical toolkit [24/7].

- See social media section below for more information.

King’s Fund

Article: Who is supporting locally employed, specialty and specialist doctors? The NHS cannot afford to lose them [26/7].
Report: The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan explained [27/7].

Health Foundation

Report: Health in 2040: projected patterns of illness in England [24/6].

- 9.1 million people in England are projected to be living with major illness by 2040. This is an increase from 1 in 6 to nearly 1 in 5 of the adult population.

NHS Providers