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.
- Data: National Quarterly Pulse Survey data [4/3].
- Guidance: Measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccination invitation [4/3].
- Guidance: Medicines Procurement and Supply Chain: pharmacy purchasing points list [6/3].
- Guidance: Pre-election guidance for NHS organisations [7/3].
- Guidance: Measles: frequently asked questions [8/3].
- Report: NHS England annual report and accounts 2022 to 2023 [8/3].
Department for Health and Social Care
- Press release: £10 million to support suicide prevention [4/3].
- Press release: Unions will recommend new offer to NHS consultants [5/3].
- The British Medical Association (BMA) and Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association (HCSA) will put the offer forward for a vote in the coming weeks.
- Press release: Increased 2024 funding for nursing in care homes [7/3].
- NHS-funded nursing care rates provided to care homes for the nursing needs of their residents are rising in April.
- Speech: The 2024 Budget and NHS productivity [7/3].
Government Actuary’s Department
- News: Estimating excess deaths – new methodology [6/3].
NHS Networks
- Report: Racism and language barriers in pharmacy [6/3].
- The General Pharmaceutical Council has published new reports on racism and other inequalities in pharmacy following roundtable event.
Policy, think tanks, charities and representative bodies
NHS Confederation
- Report: Lack of diversity and deteriorating NHS reputation key concerns for communications leaders [5/3].
- One of the most comprehensive reports into the state of the NHS communications profession is published 5 March.
NHS Providers
- Senior doctors across England will vote on a new pay offer from the government.
King’s Fund
- This blog recaps the key health and care spending announcements from the spring Budget 2024 which is the last budget before the next general election.
Nuffield Trust
- Press release: Nuffield Trust: Response to the Spring Budget [6/3].
London Trusts
Barts Health NHS Trust
- Article: Improving informatics [8/3].
- Barts Health NHS Trust are expanding and strengthening their informatics team as a direct result of their work to spread a common electronic patient record (EPR) across north east London.
Central and West London London NHS Foundation Trust
- An Omnicell automated medicine cabinet has now been installed at Beatrice Place in Kensington and Chelsea, the latest in many implemented at CNWL.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
- Article: Guy’s and St Thomas’ honours outstanding staff [8/3].
- Guy’s and St Thomas’ have honoured their outstanding staff, who go above and beyond in caring for patients, families, and supporting one another, in the first Trust Awards since the pandemic.
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust achieved its third consecutive year of improvement in the 2023 national NHS staff survey.
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- UCLH has received the highest score of all general acute and acute/community NHS trusts in England for staff that would recommend them as a place to work.