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.
- Guidance: Safeguarding children, young people and adults at risk in the NHS: Safeguarding accountability and assurance framework [24/6].
- Promotional material:Cervical screening: an easy guide [25/6].
- A leaflet about cervical screening by and for women with learning disabilities.
- Guidance: National infection prevention and control [26/6].
UK Health Security Agency
- Promotional material: Flu vaccination for children: leaflets and posters [24/6].
- Guidance:Flu vaccination in schools [24/6].
- Guidance: Pre-release access lists: COVER programme quarterly data [25/6].
- Lists of those receiving pre-release access to UK Health Security Agency cover of vaccination evaluated rapidly (COVER) programme quarterly data.
- Promotional material:Whooping cough: vaccination in pregnancy programme resources[26/6].
- Guidance: Vaccination against pertussis (whooping cough) for pregnant women [26/6].
BMA
- Press release: BMA launches legal action against GMC over dangerous blurring of lines between doctors and physician associates [24/6].
- Press release: Junior doctors in England begin new strike as Sunak fails to make pay commitment [27/6].
Policy, think tanks, charities and representative bodies
The Health Foundation
- Publication: How can the next government improve hospital waits in England? [25/6].
- NHS waiting times are a key election issue, with both major political parties committing to tackle the backlog in care. But with the elective care waiting list standing at 7.6 million, the challenge ahead is huge.
- NHS standards for elective care waiting times have not been met since February 2016, while standards for ambulance and A&E waiting times have not been met since 2020/21 and 2015 respectively.
- There are no quick fixes, but the health service can recover with a long-term plan that combines:
- The right mix of policy change,
- Radical innovation and improvement,
- Long-term investment.
Ipsos
- New polling has found that around half of Britons (52%) support junior doctors going on strike (+6 ppts since May 2024).
- When asked which public sector workers they support or oppose going on strike, junior doctors rank third, behind nurses (60%) and ambulance workers (58%).
Smart Thinking: Institute for Government
- Decisions since 2010, which saw capital budgets in DHSC, DfE and MoJ down 18%, 17% and 69% respectively in 2015/16 relative to 2007/08 in real terms, with capital spending for education still 17% lower – have led to patients languishing on waiting lists, prisoners kept in over-crowded cells, and some pupils being taught in poor conditions.
London Trusts
Barts Health NHS Trust
- Article: Projects to revolutionise recovery times for stroke patients and boost safety in eye care were among the winners at the second annual WeImprove Awards [24/6].
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
- Article: Helen Willetts, a former Director of Nursing for CNWL’s Diggory and Goodall Divisions, returns today as their Chief Nursing Officer [24/6].
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust
St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust