Health landscape report: 22 June – 26 June

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. 

• Clinical standard: oral health and dental care for children and young people [22/6]. 

• Letter:Expansion of medical specialty training places[23/6]. 

• This is an urgent public health message to healthcare providers and professionals regarding the risk of heat stress when using PPE. 

• Guidance: 2026/27 NHS Standard Contract – technical guidance [23/6]. 

• Guidance:Planning, assuring and delivering service change for patients[25/6]. 

Department of Health and Social Care 

• Press release: Martha’s Rule extended to all maternity services [24/6]. 

• Landmark patient safety initiative, Martha’s Rule, rolled out to all maternity settings after review found serious and sustained failures. 

UK Health Security Agency 

• Guidance:COVID-19 vaccination: spring 2026 campaign resources [22/6]. 

• Guidance:Personal protective equipment and heat: risk of heat stress[23/6]. 

• News:UKHSA extends red heat-health alerts across England [24/6]. 

• Guidance: Ebola and Marburg haemorrhagic fevers: outbreaks and case locations [25/6]. 

• News:Vaccine schedule change helps protect babies earlier against meningitis B [25/6]. 

Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency 

• Guidance: COVID-19 test validation approved products [24/6]. 

• Guidance: MHRA Innovation Office: guidance and support [25/6]. 

BMA 

• Press release:BMA affirms assisted dying policy at its Annual Representative Meeting [22/6]. 

• Press release: BMA calls for Government action to make advanced practitioner role safe for patients [22/6]. 

• Press release: New survey shows patients want more investment in doctors prioritised [23/6]. 

• Press release:BMA calls on Government to protect public health consultants [24/6]. 

Policy, think tanks, charities, and representative bodies  

The King’s Fund 

• Press release: King’s Fund report says that addressing ‘dementia data gap’ key to delivering future recommendations of Casey Commission and MSF [22/6]. 

• A new King’s Fund report has today said that addressing the ‘dementia data gap’ is key to delivering on the future recommendations of the Casey Commission and Modern Service Framework for Frailty and Dementia. 

• Press release:The King’s Fund responds to Baroness Casey’s Health and Social Care Select Committee appearance [24/6]. 

• Press release:The King’s Fund responds to the government’s initial response to the Ockenden Review[24/6]. 

Smart Thinking 

Think tank: The Sutton Trust 

• Crosssing paths  

• This report explores how opportunities for disadvantaged young people in England are shaped not just by socio-economic background and geography, but also by the interaction of gender and ethnicity. It highlights significant regional disparities in educational attainment and earnings, showing that average outcomes often mask important inequalities between different groups. The report pays particular attention to outcomes for white working-class pupils, mapping variations in achievement and employment prospects across constituencies, and demonstrates that social mobility is influenced by a complex combination of postcode, background, gender and ethnicity. 

Nuffield Trust 

• Blog: Nuffield Trust look at whether ready-to-administer IV medicines could help the NHS cut errors and free up time [26/6]. 

• There are ambitions to expand the use of ready-to-administer (RTA) IV medicines, which could be both transformative and timely. But with there being little evidence on their use in practice, this NIHR RSET blog from Steve Morris and Holly Walton looks at what RTA IV medicines are, what they could mean for patient care, and why more research is needed before the NHS scales up their use. 

YouGov 

• Tracker: Who Brits talk to about their mental health 

The London school of Economics and Political Science 

• Article:Five ways the NHS was changed by Brexit[23/6]. 

• 10 years ago today, the UK voted to leave the European Union. Mark Dayan highlights 5 ways that Brexit has affected health and social care in the UK. 

London Trusts    

Barts Health NHS Trust 

• Article: Following last week’s exciting news from Queen Mary University of London that appears to show the HPV vaccine has all but eliminated cervical cancer deaths in young women in England, Dr Alexandra Lawrence, consultant gynaecological oncologist at The Royal London Hospital, answers some of the most common questions people are asking about the HPV vaccine, and what that means for our communities living in north east London [26/6]. 

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust 

• Article: Stephen Bloomer has been appointed as group chief finance officer for North West London Acute Provider Group, starting on 1 September 2026, following a competitive recruitment process [22/6]. 

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 

• Article:On Monday 22 June 2026, the new Endoscopy and Diagnostic Centre based at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) officially opened, enabling specialist staff to see up to 4,500 additional suspected cancer patients each year [24/6].