Health landscape report: 13 January -17 January

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.  

Please feel free to share any useful stats/links you think we could include in future reports.  

Official bodies    

NHS Digital 

• All recent data releases can be seen here. 
• Guidance:Antimicrobial stewardship: self-assessment toolkit for integrated care boards [13/1]. 
• Letter: Enabling equitable access to clinical imaging referrals [16/1]. 
• Regulatory: NHS provider directory and registers of licensed healthcare providers [17/1]. 

Department of Health and Social Care 

• Guidance: UK reciprocal healthcare agreements with non-EU countries [15/1]. 
• Press release:UK invests £5.5 million to tackle mpox in sub-Saharan Africa [15/1]. 
• Press release:Winter 2025: Health and Social Care Secretary’s statement[15/1]. 
• Press release:Largest ever national pandemic response exercise to strengthen against future threats [16/1]. 

UK Health Security Agency 

• Guidance: Clade I mpox contact tracing guidance [13/1]. 
• Guidance: BBVs in healthcare workers: health clearance and management [15/1]. 
• Guidance: High consequence infectious disease: country specific risk [16/1]. 

Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency 

• Guidance:Regulating medical devices in the UK[15/1]. 
• Guidance:Guidance on applying human factors to medical devices[15/1]. 
  • Guidance on the importance of applying human factors to medical devices, so they are designed and optimised to minimise patient and user safety risks. 
• News: Aprocitentan approved to treat adults with hypertension whose blood pressure cannot be controlled by other medications [17/1]. 

BMA 

• Press release:RCN corridor care report shows healthcare staff “beyond despair”, says BMA [16/1]. 

Policy, think tanks, charities and representative bodies  

YouGov 

• Tracker: How the government is handling the issue of health in the UK. 

Care Quality Commission  

• CQC publishes report on London Borough of Ealing’s care act responsibilities [17/1].  

London Trusts    

Barts Health NHS Trust 

• Article: Three of their top doctors are leading an exciting new project to ensure more patients get swifter access to routine surgery across their group of hospitals [14/1]. 

• Article: Stroke patients will benefit from quicker and more accurate treatment thanks to a state-of-the-art scanner at The Royal London Hospital [16/1]. 

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust 

• Article: The anaesthesia departments at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust have achieved Anaesthesia Clinical Services Accreditation (ACSA) from the Royal College of Anaesthetists (RCoA) [14/1].