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: Primary care service development funding and general practice IT funding guidance [3/6].
- Guidance:Culture of care standards for mental health inpatient services[3/6].
- Letter:Key principles for ensuring continuous health records of adopted children [4/6].
- Guidance: Measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccination invitation [4/6].
- Template: NHS Education Funding Agreement – April 2024 – March 2027 [5/6].
- Guidance: Industrial action in the NHS [6/6].
Department of Health and Social Care
- How the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) puts together the data in its monthly reports.
UK Health Security Agency
- Guidance: Vaccine update: issue 345, May 2024 [3/6].
- Guidance: Investigating and managing outbreaks of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) [4/6].
- Guidance: Seasonal influenza vaccine uptake reports: pre-release access list [5/6].
- Guidance:Health protection in children and young people settings, including education [6/6].
- Press release: E. coli advice issued amid rise in cases [6/6].
- Guidance:Template letter to clinicians caring for immunosuppressed patients on measles[7/6].
Policy, think tanks, charities and representative bodies
The Health Foundation
- Labour’s commitment to new hospital programme is welcome but sustained investment still needed [4/10].
- Health Foundation responds to Liberal Democrats announcement on long-term sickness [4/10].
Ipsos
- Around two thirds say they are not confident that they would be able to get a GP appointment quickly at a time that suits them [4/10].
- New polling from Ipsos for ITV News, explores attitudes towards NHS services and whether the public feel confident that they could access different services quickly.
- Almost two thirds (65%) said they were not confident that if they needed a GP appointment, they would be able to get one quickly at a time that suits them (34% confident).
- Three in five said they were not confident that if they needed an ambulance, one would arrive quickly (-4 from Sep 2022). 38% said they were confident that an ambulance would arrive quickly if they needed one (+6 from Sep 2022).
- Two thirds (67%) said that they were not confident that if they needed emergency care in A&E they would be seen quickly (+1 from Sep 2022). Around a third (32%) said they were confident that they would be seen quickly in A&E if they needed emergency care (+1 from Sep 2022).
The King’s Fund
London Trusts
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
- Article:Synnovis ransomware cyber attack [4/6].
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Article: King’s College Hospital honorary consultant surgeon awarded Order of the Star of Italy Knighthood [7/6].
- Professor Francesco Rubino has been recognised for his work to improve patients’ lives.