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: Treatment algorithm for multiple sclerosis disease-modifying therapies [29/6].
- Correspondence: RSV vaccination: expansion of eligibility to older adults in certain clinical risk groups [1/7].
- Guidance:NHS very senior managers pay framework [1/7].
- Letter:Publication of Baroness Amos’ independent investigation into maternity and neonatal services in England[1/7].
Department of Health and Social Care
- Press release:Resident doctors agree deal with government to end strikes[29/6].
- BMA votes to accept offer that will see resident doctors benefit from new pay structure and better career-progression opportunities.
- Press release: UK’s first maternity and neonatal commissioner to be appointed [29/6].
- Guidance: National Child Measurement Programme: operational guidance [1/7].
- Guidance on running the National Child Measurement Programme, which collects the height and weight of reception and year 6 children across England every year.
- Guidance: Medicines that you cannot export from the UK or hoard [2/7].
- Press release:NHS patients get faster access to medicines under new pilots [2/7].
UK Health Security Agency
- Guidance: Meningococcal B (MenB) time limited vaccination offer: information for healthcare practitioners [29/6].
- Guidance:Pre-release access list: monthly HCAI statistical release [1/7].
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
- Guidance: Borderline products: medical devices and other products [29/6].
- How the MHRA makes decisions on whether a borderline product is a medical device and whether medical devices regulations should apply.
- Guidance: Medicines: packaging, labelling and patient information leaflets [1/7].
- Press release:MHRA secures convictions after a decade-long investigation into falsely marked baby-feeding devices [1/7].
- Press release: MHRA authorises gemcitabine delivery system for adults with BCG-unresponsive high-risk non-muscle invasive bladder cancer [1/7].
Policy, think tanks, charities, and representative bodies
The King’s Fund
- Press release: The King’s Fund responds to the publication of Baroness Amos’s Independent Maternity and Neonatal Investigation [30/6].
- Long read:One year on, is the NHS 10 Year Health Plan being delivered? [2/7].
- One year ago, the Prime Minister, Chancellor, and Health and Care Secretary stood up in a light-filled room at the Sir Ludwig Guttman Health Centre in East London and launched the NHS 10 Year Health Plan.
Nuffield Trust
- Long read: Time to clear the tables: why NHS league rankings don’t work [3/7].
- Last year, the government introduced league tables rating the performance of NHS trusts in England. Thea Stein, who raised concerns at the time, argues that the tables are a poor guide to the quality of care that patients can expect.
- Press release: Nuffield Trust response to Baroness Amos’ report on maternity care [30/6].
YouGov
London Trusts
Barts Health NHS Trust
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Article: Due to essential building works at Charing Cross Hospital, they will be relocating Chapel access and services to the New Boardroom until 13 July [30/6].
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust