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.
- Report: Assessment of general practice compliance – 1 October 2025 contractual changes [3/12].
Department of Health and Social Care
- Press release: Trailblazing scheme to reconnect thousands with HIV treatment [1/12].
- Press release: Landmark UK-US pharmaceuticals deal to safeguard medicines access and drive vital investment for UK patients and businesses [1/12].
- Guidance: Medicines eligible for Northern Ireland MHRA Authorised Route [2/12].
- Press release: New adviser to reform NHS response to violence vs women and girls [2/12].
- Press release: Almost every GP now offers online access for patients [3/12].
- GP online access has been rolled out at nearly all GP practices, benefitting patients across England.
UK Health Security Agency
- Guidance: Routine childhood immunisation schedule [1/12].
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
- Guidance: Access Generic Medicines Work Sharing Initiative [1/12].
- News: Patient and family experiences inform antidepressant safety information review [1/12].
- Press release: MHRA approves tisotumab vedotin for the treatment of cervical cancer [2/12].
BMA
Policy, think tanks, charities, and representative bodies
The Health Foundation
- The shift to prevention is possible [5/12].
- This blog argues that the UK must urgently shift from a crisis-driven health and social care model to one focused on prevention. Despite long-standing rhetoric, resources continue to flow into emergency responses rather than upstream interventions. The author highlights evidence-based approaches—such as community health initiatives, smoking cessation, falls prevention, and reablement in social care—that improve outcomes and reduce long-term demand. While challenges like funding flows and political cycles hinder progress, the piece insists prevention is both possible and essential for sustainable public services, healthier communities, and restoring confidence in the NHS.
- Launch of a framework to improve how the NHS in England makes large-scale change [4/12].
- The Health Foundation has launched a new framework to help the NHS in England deliver large-scale changes more effectively. It focuses on learning from past reforms and tackling today’s tougher environment by promoting evidence-based planning, inclusive leadership, and early stakeholder engagement. With priorities like shifting care into communities, embracing digital systems, and focusing on prevention, the framework aims to guide the NHS in achieving sustainable transformation despite funding and workforce challenges.
The King’s Fund
- Treatment to prevention: how HIV is leading the way on early diagnosis [1/12].
- This guest blog by Richard Angell, CEO of the Terrence Higgins Trust, highlights the success of opt‑out HIV testing in A&E departments across England. Over three years, the program has delivered millions of tests for HIV, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C, diagnosing thousands of people—many of whom had never been tested before. By removing stigma and bias, routine testing has reached groups often diagnosed late, such as older people, women, and ethnic minorities. The blog argues that this approach not only saves lives and prevents transmission but also shows how early detection can transform wider public health, with potential to expand into other conditions like diabetes and syphilis.
Institute of Health Equity
- Absolute calamity – Warning as expert says children in Newcastle don’t have life chances of those in London News Title [4/12].
- This blog highlights stark regional inequalities in child health and life chances across England. Professor Sir Michael Marmot warns of an “absolute calamity,” pointing out that children growing up in Newcastle face significantly worse prospects than those in London due to entrenched social and economic disparities. The piece stresses that these inequalities are not inevitable but the result of policy choices, urging urgent action to address poverty, housing, education, and community investment so that all children, regardless of where they live, can thrive.
General Medical Council
London Trusts
Barking, Havering, and Redbridge University Hosp Trust
- New service speeds up lung cancer diagnosis [4/10]
- A new thoracoscopy service at Queen’s Hospital speeds up lung cancer diagnosis by allowing fluid drainage and biopsies under local anesthetic. Around 60 patients have already benefited, making care faster, less invasive, and reducing the need to travel elsewhere.