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.
- Letter: 76% four hour standard regional letters [27/2].
- Letters asking integrated care boards and trusts to review their internal systems and processes to support their emergency department (ED) teams, ensuring as a priority that the five priority ED improvement initiatives are in place.
- Letter: NHS England update on medical school training places, 28 February letter to Royal College of Physicians [28/2].
- Letter: Arrangements for the GP contract in 2024/25 [28/2].
- Contract: NHS Standard Contract 2023/24 and final NHS Standard Contract 2024/25: Comparison documents [29/2].
- These documents show the changes made from the NHS Standard Contract 2023/24 (published in March 2023) to the full-length NHS Standard Contract 2024/25 (published in February 2024).
Department for Health and Social Care
- Press release: Extra funding for early support hubs [27/2].
- Press release: New payments for dentists to make more appointments available [1/3].
- New patient premium starts to offer dentists cash incentives to take on new NHS patients.
UK Health Security Agency
- News story: Latest measles statistics published [29/2].
- Press release: Marketing campaign launches to drive up childhood vaccinations [29/2].
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
- Press release: MHRA Chief Executive Dame June Raine to step down later this year [26/2].
- News story: MHRA publishes new guidance to help applicants and shorten timeframes for assessment of established medicines [28/2].
Policy, think tanks, charities and representative bodies
NHS Confederation
- Article: NHS still under pressure despite performance improvements [29/2].
- Despite data suggesting that the winter peak may be over the NHS is still under immense pressure.
NHS Providers
- Article: Patients paying the price as more than 93,000 appointments delayed by latest junior doctor strike [1/3].
King’s Fund
- Blog: Thoughts on the NHS’s productivity decline [28/2].
BBC Bitesize
- Survey: New number one in top 10 jobs teens want [29/2].
- Doctor has topped the list of jobs teenagers want the most when they’re older, up two places since last year according to the annual BBC Bitesize Careers survey.
Pulse
- Article: Pulse have issued an article summing up the main changes to the GP contract announced by NHS England yesterday. [28/2].
- An overall increase in investment of £259m taking overall contract investment to £1,186m – a 2.23% increase. This incorporates a 2% pay increase for GPs and staff, which may change based on the DDRB’s recommendations.
London Trusts
Barts Health NHS Trust
- Article:Call for views on separate pay spine for nurses[27/2].
- A new consultation has opened to seek views on whether nursing staff should be paid on a separate pay spine.
Central and West London London NHS Foundation Trust
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has offered local students the opportunity to gain valuable life skills while they learn more about roles in areas including paediatric surgery, pharmacy and nursing, through work experience placements.
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Article: Imperial College Healthcare accredited as Veteran Aware [27/2].
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust has been formally accredited as ‘Veteran Aware’ by the Veterans Covenant Healthcare Alliance (VCHA), a group of healthcare providers in England committed to providing the best standards of care for the Armed Forces community, based on the principles of the Armed Forces Covenant.