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: NHS oversight framework segmentation [6/8].
- Data: Provisional Never Events 2024/25 data: 1 April 2024 – 30 June 2024 [8/8].
UK Health Security Agency
- Guidance: Vaccination against pertussis (whooping cough) for pregnant women [5/8].
- Guidance: Flu vaccination programme 2024 to 2025: healthcare practitioners [5/8].
- Guidance: Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV): maternal vaccination [6/8].
- Information on respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and the benefits of vaccination for pregnant women and their babies and a poster and stickers to promote the vaccination to pregnant women.
- Guidance: Pre-release access lists: mandatory HCAI statistical releases [7/8].
- Press release: Whooping cough cases rise to over 10,000 [8/8].
- UKHSA urges pregnant women to get vaccinated to protect their newborn babies as whooping cough cases rise to over 10,000
BMA
- Press release: BMA welcomes the repeal of the “draconian” Strikes Act [6/8].
- Press release: GMC report shows burnt out doctors ‘forced to take matters into their own hands’ to protect themselves and patients, says BMA [8/8].
- Press release: Survey of NHS perceptions shows “public share priorities of doctors”, says BMA [9/8].
Policy, think tanks, charities and representative bodies
The Health Foundation
- Public satisfaction with the NHS hit record low before the General Election, new polling shows [9/8].
- No quick fixes for NHS as waiting list goes up again [8/8].
Ipsos
- Satisfaction with NHS services has declined further, with fewer people agreeing the NHS is providing a good service nationally and locally [9/8].
- The public think most aspects of the NHS have got worse over the past year, with pressures on NHS staff, waiting times for routine services and the wellbeing of NHS staff remaining the top three aspects of the NHS that the public think have got worse.
The King’s Fund
- Fixing the broken wheels on the CoW: how can NHS organisations improve staff experience? [8/8]
- There are still plenty of problems that blight the daily lives of NHS staff that can be fixed without national action, without waiting for the collective view of a provider collaborative, and without the approval of a regional team or integrated care board.
- National bodies and the government have some role to play in all this, including providing dedicated funding and guidance for improving staff health and wellbeing, and creating an environment where staff feel like they can ‘get rid of stupid stuff’.
General Medical Council
- Struggling doctors are cutting hours to safeguard their wellbeing, GMC warns [8/8]
- The regulator’s latest annual report into the workplace experiences of doctors in the UK shows that doctors are increasingly taking steps themselves to address workload and capacity pressures.
- The report found that higher proportions of doctors are reducing their hours (19% in 2023 and 18% in 2022, compared with 8% in 2021) and declining to take on additional work (41% in 2023 and 42% in 2022, compared with 23% in 2021).
- One in three doctors (33%) were found to be ‘struggling’, meaning they are regularly working beyond their rostered hours and feeling unable to cope with their workload.
- Concerning patterns are seen across all groups, however some far worse than others. Nearly half (48%) of GPs are struggling and consistently have worse experiences than others since the report began in 2019.
London Trusts
Barts Health NHS Trust
- Article: The Royal London Hospital will once again feature in Channel 4’s series Emergency which looks at the work of the London’s Major Trauma Network [9/8].
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
- Article: The first UK cases of workers who cut and finish artificial stone worktops developing an incurable lung disease have been reported [7/8].
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Article: Team King’s recognised at the Black Healthcare Awards [6/8].
- Several members of Team King’s have been recognised at the Black Healthcare Awards.