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.
Department of Health and Social Care
- Press release: Government commits to updating NHS constitution to ensure privacy and dignity for women receiving care [3/10].
- News:Government to invest £30 million in innovative technology for NHS[3/10].
10 Downing Street
- News: Prime Minister to create ‘smokefree generation’ by ending cigarette sales to those born on or after 1 January 2009 [4/10].
Policy, think tanks, charities and representative bodies
King’s Fund
- Article: Unsustainable workload, part-time working and portfolio careers: results of the GP trainee survey [6/10].
- Article: Enabling the workforce plan ambitions by focusing on recovery [5/10].
Nuffield Trust
Health Foundation
- Press release: Response to the Prime Minister’s announcement of smoke-free measures [4/10].
Polling
YouGov
- Article: Smoking v Calories: Has Rishi got it Wrong? [6/10].
- Data: 44% of Britons think weight loss drugs should be available on the NHS [3/10].
London Trusts
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
- Article: Children’s cancer public consultation [6/10].
Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Article: New electronic patient record goes live [5/10].
- Joint go-live of the new system across King’s and Guy’s and St Thomas’ is the biggest ever single go-live of Epic’s electronic patient record anywhere in the world.
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust