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: NHS Talking Therapies for anxiety and depression manual [30/4].
- Guidance: Acute discharge situation report: technical specification [30/4].
- Article: Determining the responsible NHS-led provider collaborative [30/4].
UK Health Security Agency
- Guidance: Rabies post-exposure treatment: management guidelines [1/5].
- News: Latest measles statistics published [2/5].
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
- Article: MHRA’s AI regulatory strategy ensures patient safety and industry innovation into 2030 [30/4].
- Guidance: Medical devices: UK approved bodies [2/5].
- Guidance: Software and artificial intelligence (AI) as a medical device [3/5].
BMA
- Article: BMA responds to proposed welfare reforms [29/4].
Policy, think tanks, charities and representative bodies
Nuffield Trust
Institute of Health Equity
- The Michael Marmot Institute of Health Equity shares data from its latest study on how local authority funding affects health inequality. The full report is available here[1/5].
- The report finds:
- The life expectancy gap between rich and poor has grown in recent years, but London has faired better than other regions.
- There is a trend for local authority areas who have the lowest life expectancy to have increased per head council tax the most.
Smart Thinking – (Fabian Society)
- Cost cutters – This report from UK think tank the Fabian Society sets out how the UK can address the poverty premium and make markets work for low-income families [1/5].
The Kings Fund
- Organisational anxiety and what leaders are (or aren’t) doing about it [3/5].
- Working in health and care can give rise to a range of emotions – how well are people able to cope?
- Isabel Menzies Lyth shared the importance of organisational interventions to create healthy and effective workplaces.
- Providing adequate resources
- Systematically providing spaces for people to process the impact of their work.
- Leadership and management approaches that are thoughtful about containing anxiety.
London Trusts
Barts Health NHS Trust
- Article: AI used to spot missing appointments [2/5].
- An artificial intelligence tool trained to read clinical letters has prevented many patients from missing out on key appointments.
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust