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:Virtual wards operational framework [27/8].
- This framework supports consistency across the NHS and the relevant goals in line with the Year 2 urgent and emergency care (UEC) recovery plan and the 2024/25 priorities and operational planning guidance: maintaining virtual ward capacity and optimising occupancy so it is consistently above 80%.
- Guidance: Single point of access (SPoA) – Guidance to support winter resilience 2024/25 [28/8].
- Guidance: Patient safety learning response toolkit [28/8].
Department of Health and Social Care
- Press release:UK secures £400 million investment to boost clinical trials[28/8].
- World-first public-private collaboration launched to kickstart economic growth and build an NHS fit for the future.
- Press release: Over 130,000 people to benefit from life-saving health checks [30/8].
UK Health Security Agency
- Guidance: Shingles vaccination: guidance for healthcare practitioners [23/8].
- Guidance: Vaccination of individuals with uncertain or incomplete immunisation [30/8].
- Press release: UKHSA warns of back to school measles surge [29/8].
- The measles vaccination is part of the NHS Routine Childhood Immunisation Programme – with 1 dose offered at 1 year and a second dose at 3 years 4 months.
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
- Guidance:Notify MHRA about a clinical investigation for a medical device [27/8].
- Guidance: Clinical trials for medicines: apply for authorisation in the UK [27/8].
Policy, think tanks, charities and representative bodies
Ipsos
- Almost half the public support GPs taking collective action short of strikes [29/8].
- More than half the public (54%) say the NHS is heading in the wrong direction according to an Ipsos poll.
- However, support for individual actions varies, and most think it is unacceptable for GPs to limit their daily patients to just 25.
- One in three say the Labour government is doing a good job negotiating with trade unions generally.
- Overall perceptions of the NHS in England have improved since March, but half still critical over availability of non-urgent GP appointments.
YouGov
London Trusts
Barts Health NHS Trust
- Article: From September, all patients who are pregnant will be given the choice to access a Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) vaccine [30/8].
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust