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.

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Official bodies

NHS Digital

All recent data releases can be seen here.

Care Quality Commission

Report: Improvement cultures in health and adult social care settings [26/7].
Article: Our transformation plan and new approach – summer update [31/7].

Department of Health and Social Care

Press release: Government boosts use of independent sector capacity to cut NHS waits [4/8].
Thirteen new community diagnostic centres are opening across the country to deliver more than 742,000 additional scans, tests and checks a year.

NHS National Cancer Patient Experience Survey

Data: Latest national results [28/7].

Office for Health Improvement and Disparities

Guidance: Migrant health guide [3/8].

Policy, think tanks, charities and representative bodies

Reform

Report: Health security from the ground up: 5 lessons for the future of the UKHSA [3/8].

Health Foundation

Report: Public open to virtual care, but lack of understanding a barrier to progress [29/7].

Disabled people, people with a carer, and carers themselves were significantly more likely to support virtual wards compared to the population as a whole.
Older people are more open to using virtual wards – under the right conditions. Just 21% of those aged 65 and over say they would not want to be treated through a virtual ward, compared to 36% of 16–24-year-olds.

HSJ

Article: Around a quarter of acute trusts paid consultants premium rates to provide strike cover during the first two junior doctors’ walkouts, broadly matching the pay levels demanded by the British Medical Association’s ‘rate card’, HSJ research has found [31/7].

The April strike rates were: weekday 7am-7pm £161/hr; 7pm-11pm £215/hr; weekend 7am-11pm £215/hr; overnight 11pm-7am £269/hr
The March rates were: weekday 7am-7pm £158/hr; 7pm-11pm £210/hr; weekend 7am-11pm £210/hr; overnight 11pm-7am £262/hr
The HSJ also notes that London trusts resisted paying BMA rate card rates for consultant cover over the first two JD strikes, before relenting ahead of the third strike.
Most initially paid around £200/hr, which is below the £215/hr weekend and £269/hr overnight BMA rates.

Nuffield Trust