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: Ear checks for children and young people in residential special schools and colleges in England [4/11].
- Letter: Mid-year financial information updates and actions for integrated care boards (ICBs) following DDRB pay uplifts and other 2024/25 GP contract updates [5/11].
- Guidance: Avoidance of doubt: Clinical policy for self-funded dental treatment requiring NHS intervention [6/11].
- Guidance: Pre-school vaccinations: guide to vaccinations from 2 to 5 years [6/11].
Department of Health and Social Care
- Guidance: DHSC public appointments: 2024 to 2025 [5/11].
- Non-executive appointments to the Department of Health and Social Care’s public bodies and committees from October 2024 to March 2025.
- Guidance: Commercial procurement pipeline for DHSC [4/11].
- Press release: UK to create world-first ‘early warning system’ for pandemics [5/11].
- Press release: Smoking ban introduced to protect children and most vulnerable [5/11].
- Press release: Better care for mental health patients under major reforms [6/11].
- Guidance: Adult social care in England statistics: background quality and methodology [7/11].
UK Health Security Agency
- Press release: RSV vaccine could reduce antibiotic prescribing [5/11].
- Guidance: Shingles vaccination guide [6/11].
- News: Flu and COVID-19 surveillance report published [7/11].
- Guidance:Confirmed cases of mpox clade Ib in United Kingdom [8/11].
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
- Press release:The importance of giving patients a voice in the approval of new sickle cell treatment [6/11].
Office for Health Improvements and Disparities
- Guidance: Oral health survey of adults in care homes 2024 to 2025: toolkit [6/11].
Policy, think tanks, charities and representative bodies
Ipsos
- “Broken NHS”: Driving Patients Away? [6/11].
- Ipsos poll reveals how public concerns about the health service are changing the way people seek care.
- The poll also revealed a concerning trend of people avoiding NHS services, which chimes with the concerns expressed by health leaders.
- Driven by anxieties about the system:
- 38% of Britons have avoided routine GP appointments,
- 33% have avoided A&E visits,
- 27% have avoided urgent GP appointments.
YouGov
The King’s Fund
- Perspectives from a ‘broken’ system: why language matters [4/11].
- The Prime Minister and Health Secretary have sparked debate by repeatedly stating that the NHS is broken. One poll by YouGov found that nearly two thirds of the public agree with this description, but what do NHS staff think?
- For those staff who agreed that the NHS is broken, this rhetoric validated their negative experiences of pressures and resource shortages.
- Though opinions may vary, some report that working in an environment consistently described as broken can take a mental toll, especially in the context of already strained working conditions.
London Trusts
Barts Health NHS Trust
- Article: Patients with autoimmune diseases will have better access to treatment thanks to the opening of a new infusion centre at Mile End Hospital [5/11].
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust