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: Managing conflicts of interest in the NHS: guidance for staff and organisations [10/9].
- Guidance: Rapid cancer diagnostic and assessment pathways [11/9].
- Regulatory: NHS provider directory and registers of licensed healthcare providers [11/9].
- Data: Provisional Never Events 2024/25 data: 1 April 2024 – 31 July 2024 [12/9].
Department of Health and Social Care
- Guidance: Medical certificate of cause of death (MCCD): guidance for medical practitioners [9/9].
- Press release: DHSC Second Permanent Secretary appointed [10/9].
- Tom Riordan, former Leeds City Council Chief Executive, appointed as Department of Health and Social Care Second Permanent Secretary.
- Press release: PM: ‘Major surgery, not sticking plaster solutions’ needed to rebuild NHS [11/9].
- The PM will pledge the ‘biggest reimagining of our NHS since its birth’ in a speech this morning [12 September 2024], following the publication today of a full and independent investigation into the state of the NHS.
- Speech: PM speech on the NHS: 12 September 2024 [12/9].
UK Health Security Agency
- Guidance: Flu vaccination: who should have it this winter and why [9/9].
- This explains the importance of the influenza (flu) vaccination this winter: 2024 to 2025.
- Guidance: Radiation emergencies: information for the public [10/9].
- Guidance: Mpox: guidance on when to suspect a case of mpox [12/9].
- Guidance: Health protection in children and young people settings, including education [12/9].
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
- Guidance: Early Access to Medicines Scheme – Information for Applicants [10/9].
- Guidance for Applicants wishing to apply for a Promising Innovative Medicines designation, pre-submission meeting or an EAMS Scientific Opinion.
Policy, think tanks, charities and representative bodies
The Health Foundation
- New figures lay bare the consequences of years of underinvestment in the NHS [12/9].
- Assistant Director of Policy at the Health Foundation, Tim Gardner commented on the publication of the NHS monthly performance statistics.
- NHS is weakened, not broken [11/9].
- Dr Jennifer Dixon, Chief Executive of the Health Foundation responded to the publication of the Independent Investigation into the National Health Service in England by Lord Ara Darzi.
- Amongst her response, she said, “The question now is what the government does in response. Darzi’s diagnosis points to some obvious priorities for NHS reform, including shifting the balance of resources towards primary care and community-based services, modernising NHS buildings and equipment, and harnessing the benefits of new technology to improve care for patients. The NHS is weakened but not broken – and staff can recover services if they are given the resources to make it happen.”
Smart Thinking
- Think tank: Pro Bono Economics
- Charting a happier course for England’s children [12/9].
- A large coalition of children’s charities, teachers, and parents are calling for the UK government to urgently address the deepening children’s wellbeing crisis by introducing universal wellbeing measurement across England.
- Think tank: Reform
- Prescription for prevention [11/9].
- 90% of daily NHS activity happens in general practice and the community. If the primary care model is no longer fit for purpose, it weakens the foundations of the entire system and undermines the longstanding ambition to move care into the community.
- Prescription for Prevention sets out a new vision for primary care. Rather than simply calling for workforce growth or bigger GP appointment targets, it sets out a variety of interventions on estates, workforce composition, technology, regulation, and funding models.
Nuffield Trust
- Why is the Darzi report so important? [13/9].
- Reflections from the inside: how to improve decision-making on health and care [11/9].
- Robert Ede served as a Special Adviser to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care from November 2022 until July 2024 and shares his reflections on trying to get things done inside government, with a particular focus on decision-making in the NHS.
The King’s Fund
- “We don’t need an independent review to know that NHS performance is bad and that the government has received a troubled inheritance. What we need is a mandate for change. Wes Streeting, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, has already said the NHS is broken. With a diagnosis this serious, the treatment surely needs to be radical.”
- On 14 June 2017, 72 lives were lost at Grenfell in what was a preventable tragedy. The community, and many of those who have been working with them, want to ensure that lessons are learnt both from the tragedy itself and how public services reacted in the aftermath.
London Trusts
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust