Health landscape report: 23-27 October 2023

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.
• Publication: Patient Online Management Information (POMI) [26/10].
• Data: Primary Care Network Workforce [26/10].
• Data: NHS Workforce Statistics [26/10].
  • 5% (67,350) more NHS Hospital & Community Health Service staff in July 2023 than in July 2022.
  • 5% more clincally qualified staff.
• Data: Appointments in General Practice [26/10].
  • 32.6 million appointments in September 2023.
  • 39.7% were same day.
  • 88.7% were attended.
  • 70.7% were face-to-face.
• Data: General Practice Workforce [26/10].
  • 1.1% more FTE GPs than September 2022.
  • 0.9% fewer fully qualified FTE GPs.
  • 0.7% more nurses.

UK Health Security Agency

• Press release: UKHSA urges those celebrating Diwali to get vaccinated against flu and COVID-19 [23/10].

GMC

• Article: GMC responds to NHS England’s update on the Long Term Workforce Plan [24/10].

Policy, think tanks, charities and representative bodies   

King’s Fund

• Event: The King’s Fund annual conference 2023: A health and care service fit for now and for the future [for 1-2/11].
• Blog: The Autumn Statement: playing with fire? [25/10].

Nuffield Trust

• Blog: Questions of trust? Exploring the national data opt-out rate [27/10].

NHS Providers

• Report: Closing The Gap: A Guide to Addressing Racial Discrimination in Disciplinaries [23/10].

Reform

• Report: The hidden waitlist [26/10].
  • This paper estimates that the total number of people currently waiting for follow up appointments at acute trusts stands at more than 11 million. This is 3.6 million more than the elective waitlist.

UCL Partners

• Article: Trusts develop innovative approaches to tackling social determinants of health [12/10].
  • Four NHS trusts in the UCLPartners region have been showcased for their innovative approaches to tackling health inequalities through their work to address factors affecting the Social Determinants of Health.

Polling

Ipsos

• Data: The economy and inflation remain the country’s biggest concerns, closely followed by the NHS [23/10].

YouGov

• Data: Anxiety and mental health: which markets have the most diagnoses? [25/10].
  • 32% of GB adults said they had been diagnosed with a mental illness.

London Trusts   

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

• Black History Month: sickle cell and healthcare inequalities discussions [26/10].

Barts Health NHS Trust

• One group, two trusts, seven hospitals [27/10].

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

• Chelsea and Westminster Hospital introduces AI-powered solution for cataract surgery patients [23/10].

Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

• Share your views on the future of local hospital and community services [25/10].

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust

• Major step forward for Children’s Cancer Centre secured [25/10].

Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust

• Share your views on the future of local hospital and community services [25/10].

The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

• New hospital passes significant milestone with full planning permission [25/10].

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

• Major study shows new insights into lasting impacts of Covid on UK population [24/10]

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

• Lung health checks advertising campaign launches in north London [24/10].