Health landscape report: 22 – 26 April 2024

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. 
• Regulatory: NHS provider directory and registers of licensed healthcare providers [22/4]. 
• Policy: NHS Long Term Workforce Plan [22/4]. 

• • The first comprehensive workforce plan for the NHS, putting staffing on a sustainable footing and improving patient care. It focuses on retaining existing talent and making the best use of new technology alongside the biggest recruitment drive in health service history. 

• Guidance: Professional nurse educator toolkit for mental health services [22/4]. 
• Guidance: Culture of care standards for mental health inpatient services [23/4]. 
• Guidance: Meeting the initial health needs of vulnerable migrants – translated health guidance and patient questionnaire for newly arrived migrants in the UK [24/4]. 
• Letter:Improving the working lives of doctors in training [25/4]. 

Department for Health and Social Care 

• Statutory guidance: The Health Claims (Revocation) Regulations 2024 [22/4]. 
• News: i.AI and NHS England sign Collaboration Charter to support the use of AI in the NHS [25/4]. 

• • The Incubator for Artificial Intelligence (i.AI) and NHS England (NHSE) have signed a Collaboration Charter to support the use of AI in the NHS. 

UK Health Security Agency 

• Guidance: BBVs in healthcare workers: health clearance and management [24/4]. 
• Press release: New data show a rise in travel-acquired malaria cases [24/4]. 
• News: Latest measles statistics published [25/4]. 

Policy, think tanks, charities and representative bodies    

Smart Thinking – (Pro Bono Economics) 

• How workplace volunteering can make us happier, healthier and more productive [25/4].

Care Quality Commission  

• Assessing services we do not rate [24/4]. 

Kings Fund 

• Siloed, unsupported and hindered – the reality of innovation in the NHS and social care [25/4]. 

Impediments to change cited include: 

• • Having “no headroom and that an ‘everyone in the trenches’ mentality perpetuates a culture in which there is no space to do things differently”. 
  • The demand that any improvement delivers a perfect solution to a problem, rather than just improving on something that is not working well. 
  • Fragmentation and siloed working prevent people sharing good ideas or being able to access knowledge that could make their own ideas more workable. 

London Trusts    

Barts Health NHS Trust 

• Article: A purpose built facility for cancer patients who become unwell during their treatment has opened at Barts Health [26/4]. 

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 

• Article: New skin cancer service for Beckenham Beacon patients [24/4]. 

• • Patients are being assessed and treated for skin cancer more quickly following the launch of a new teledermatology service. 

St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 

• Article: Mum’s praises ‘caring’ team after son survives rare condition during pregnancy [26/4]. 

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 

• Article: First patients getting individualised risk-reducing therapy for melanoma [26/4].