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: Patients registered at a GP practice, December 2023 [14/12]
- Data: Primary care dementia data, November 2023 [14/12]
Department for Health and Social Care
- Press release: Greater scrutiny of causes of death to help protect the public [14/12].
- Press release: Patient safety boost as medical associates to be regulated [11/12].
- Data: Health Inequalities Dashboard: December 2023 data update [14/12]
- Data: Alcohol and drug misuse and treatment statistics [14/12]
- Data: Substance misuse treatment for adults: statistics 2022 to 2023 [14/12]
- Data: Substance misuse treatment in secure settings: statistics 2022 to 2023 [11/12]
UK Health Security Agency
- Press release: Eligible people urged to get vaccinated as flu cases rise [15/12].
Policy, think tanks, charities and representative bodies
NHS Confederation
- Letter: Cavendish Coalition letter to the Prime Minister: changes to the health and care visa [9/12].
NHS Providers
- Article: Strikes will bring extra chill to stretched NHS this winter [5/12].
- Article: Rise in sickness bugs and delayed discharges piling the pressure on the NHS [7/12].
- Article: Patients and NHS paying the price as strike costs hit £2bn [7/12].
Ipsos
- Press release: NHS Staff top Santa’s ‘nice list’ for fourth year in a row [17/12]
- Data: Public think UK government did a bad job over a good job handling Covid pandemic by a two to one margin [11/12]
The Health Foundation
- Report: Doing more for less? A mixed-methods analysis of the experience of primary care networks in socioeconomically deprived areas [11/12]
- Report: Health care funding: Three key questions about funding in England [10/12]
Under current plans, the average real-terms growth in health funding in England will fall to 2.6% per year between 2019/20 and 2024/25 – significantly below the long-term average of 3.8% (1979/80–2019/20).
Explore #REALCentre's funding analysis ⬇️https://t.co/hhRSHfrpdwpic.twitter.com/CNJUhrLGOC
— The Health Foundation (@HealthFdn) December 19, 2023
London Trusts
Barts Health NHS Trust
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
- Article: Drones to shuttle medical supplies between Guy’s and St Thomas’ [14/12].
St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Press release: St George’s publishes full response to the future of children’s cancer services consultation [18/12].
- Article: Doctors and parents fight to keep children’s cancer ward at same hospital [15/12]
Royal Free and Whittington
- Article: Fewer births may force London maternity services to close [13/15]