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 [7/10].
- Guidance: Bowel cancer screening programme: standards [8/10].
- Letter:Update for commissioners to enable preparation for the implementation of sensory checks in special educational settings[9/10].
- Guidance: Patient confidentiality in NHS population screening programmes [10/10].
Department of Health and Social Care
- Press release: New NHS programme to reduce brain injury in childbirth trialled [7/10].
- Programme to help avoid brain injury in childbirth piloted from today to boost maternity safety.
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
- Notice: Register of brokers authorised to deal in human medicines [7/10].
- Notice: Medicines: terminated and cancelled manufacturing and wholesale dealer licences [7/10].
- Press release:MHRA launches 2024/25 business plan with focus on enabling access to groundbreaking new technology while optimising delivery for all who need our services [7/10].
- Press release: Elafibranor approved as first medicine to treat adults with a rare liver disease known as primary biliary cholangitis [8/10].
- Guidance:Opportunities for patients and the public to be involved in the work of the MHRA [9/10].
BMA
- Press release: BMA and Anaesthetists United join parents of Emily Chesterton in legal challenge to GMC over Physician Associates [8/10].
- Press release: BMA calls on Government to help end GP dispute by increasing funding for patients in England [9/10].
- Press release: BMA urges Treasury to extend January tax deadline for doctors due to McCloud pension statement delays [10/10].
Policy, think tanks, charities and representative bodies
The Health Foundation
- New figures underline the need for investment and reform to restore the NHS [10/10].
- “Today’s statistics reaffirm the need for reform and investment to get the NHS back on its feet,” Assistant Director of Policy at the Health Foundation said after the publication of the NHS monthly performance statistics.
Ipsos
- One in two young people have missed work in the last year because of stress – a new global survey by Ipsos [10/10].
- Six in ten (60%) Britons say they often think about their mental health.
- Over half (59%) of Britons say that they have felt stressed to the point where it had an impact on their daily life.
- 54% say that physical health is treated as more important than mental health by the healthcare system in the UK. This is 13pp higher than the global average.
- Nearly eight in ten (79%) Britons believe that mental and physical health are equally important.
- 36% of Britons say that they felt stressed once or several times to the point where they could not go to work for a period of time. Great Britain ranks 8th out of the 31 countries surveyed for this.
- Over half (56%) of Gen Z women have needed to take time off work due to stress, versus 29% of Gen Z men.
- The NHS has been the biggest issue for Britain over the past 50 years [8/10].
- Across 50 years of data collection, the NHS has been most likely to be identified as a big issue for Britain, followed by unemployment.
- Immigration is the biggest issue this month, although inflation remains the biggest issue facing Britons personally.
- The public see immigration and climate change as the likely biggest issues for Britain over the next 50 years.
YouGov
- EuroTrack: mental health attitudes in 2024 [9/10].
- This study shows that most people in seven European countries surveyed – Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Sweden – personally believe that mental health problems and physical health problems are equally serious, with Britons the most likely of all to say so, at 76%.
Smart Thinking
Think tank: CEPEO
- Young people’s subjective wellbeing in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from a representative cohort study in England [9/10].
- In this paper data from the COVID Social Mobility & Opportunities was used to highlight ongoing inequalities in young people’s subjective wellbeing and mental health in the wake of the pandemic.
Think tank: Green Alliance
- Climate and health: rising to the mental health challenge of climate change [7/10].
- The toll climate change and extreme weather take on our mental health is under reported and significant. The mental health impacts of climate change are likely to increase in severity and frequency as global temperatures continue to rise and the UK is not well prepared to deal with them.
Think tank: Green Alliance
- Climate and health: protecting people in the UK from extreme heat [7/10].
- The UK’s weather is becoming more extreme as the climate changes. Following the record number of heat-related deaths in the summer of 2022, this should now be a major public health concern. Action by government now to limit and adapt to rising temperatures will save lives, reduce NHS costs, avoid building retrofits in future and improve the overall health and wellbeing of society.
The King’s Fund
- From red tape to green: admin that works for everyone [10/10].
- NHS England and the government have launched a new ‘red tape challenge’. Their ambition is to make form-filling by GPs more efficient so they can free up time to see patients.
General Medical Council
London Trusts
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust