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.
- Data: Better Care Fund: 2023 to 2025 planning data [7/5].
Department of Health and Social Care
- Press release: New 5-year plan to combat antimicrobial resistance [8/5].
- Guidance: International recruitment fund for the adult social care sector 2024 to 2025 [9/5].
- Information on the £16 million support fund for regional partnerships to prevent and respond to exploitative employment practices of internationally recruited care staff.
UK Health Security Agency
- Press release: Whooping cough cases continue to rise [9/5].
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
- Press release: MHRA launches AI Airlock to address challenges for regulating medical devices that use Artificial Intelligence [9/5].
Office for Health Improvement and Disparities
- Guidance: Addressing health inequalities across allied health professional (AHP) services: a guide for AHP system leaders [9/5].
Ofsted
- Press release:Start for Life services helping babies achieve better outcomes, but more to do to support delivery [7/5].
- Ofsted and the CQC have published a joint thematic review of Start for Life services, which provide support for parents from pregnancy until their baby is 2 years old.
Policy, think tanks, charities and representative bodies
The Health Foundation
Nuffield Trust
Smart Thinking – (Centre for Social Justice)
- Lonely nation [7/5].
- During 2023 a quarter of the population felt regularly lonely, a figure that has increased since the COVID-19 pandemic leading to mental health issues.
- Seven in ten 18–24-year-olds say they feel lonely.
- 29% say they feel a fundamental separateness from other people and the wider world.
YouGov
- Tracker: Who Brits talk to about their mental health
London Trusts
Barts Health NHS Trust
- Article: State of the art intensive care unit opens at Newham Hospital [10/5].
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
- Article: Exceptional nurses and midwives from Guy’s and St Thomas’ have been celebrated with a unique professional award inspired by Florence Nightingale [9/5].
St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Article:Chief nurse left in freezing accommodation on arrival to UK launches app to help overseas health workers [10/5].
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust