Health landscape report: 27- 31 May 2024

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. 
• Guidance: Newborn hearing screening programme (NHSP) operational guidance [29/5]. 
• Letter: Preparations for an Autumn/Winter 2024/25 flu and COVID-19 seasonal campaign [30/5]. 
• Letter: Change of vaccine for the pertussis (whooping cough) vaccination in pregnancy programme from 1 July 2024 [31/5]. 
• Guidance: Summary of existing guidance on the deployment of medical associate professions in NHS healthcare settings [31/5]. 

UK Health Security Agency 

• Correspondence: Prenatal pertussis vaccine change from July 2024 letter [28/5]. 
• Guidance:Measles: posters for the general public [31/5]. 

BMA

• Article: BMA responds to Labour plans to cut NHS backlog [29/5].  

Policy, think tanks, charities and representative bodies    

The Health Foundation 

• The Health Foundation responds to Labour party’s plans to bring down NHS waiting lists [29/5]. 

Ipsos

• British public more likely to think Labour has the best policies on the issues that matter most to them [29/5].
• The first Ipsos Campaign Tracker of the 2024 General Election asks the public which issues will be most important in deciding their vote.
• The top three issues by age are:
  • 18-34s: cost of living (58%), NHS (56%) and housing (38%).
  • 35-54s: NHS (61%), cost of living (54%) and managing the economy (40%).
  • 55+: NHS (72%), cost of living (54%) and immigration (53%).

YouGov

• Survey: Junior doctors in England are to stage a five‑day strike a week before the general election. Which of the following comes closest to your view? [30/5] 
  • I support junior doctors striking in general, and I support them striking just before an election – 37%. 
  • I oppose junior doctors striking in general, and I oppose them striking just before an election – 31%. 
  • Don’t know – 15%.                                                                                                         
  • I support junior doctors striking in general, but I oppose them striking just before an election – 12%. 
  • I oppose junior doctors striking in general, but I support them striking just before an election – 5%. 

London Trusts    

Barts Health NHS Trust 

• Article: A Barts Health team helping to detect abnormal heart rhythms has been named Outstanding Healthcare Science Service for 2024 [29/5]. 

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust 

• Article: Feeding children peanuts regularly from infancy to age 5 reduced the rate of peanut allergy in adolescence by 71%, even after many years when the children ate or avoided peanut as desired [29/5].