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.
- Policy: NHS England standing orders [5/5].
- Policy: Scheme of delegation policy [5/5].
- Guidance: Integrated care board (ICB) practice agreement – terms governing the provision and receipt of digital services in general practice [8/5].
- Case study: Evaluation of how NHS public information supports decision-making about screening tests in pregnancy [6/5].
- Regulatory: Regulatory action: licensed independent healthcare providers [6/5].
- Report: Workforce Race Equality Standard: 2025 data analysis report for NHS trusts [7/5].
- Contract: Model contracts and contract variations: dental services [7/5].
UK Health Security Agency
- Guidance: Find public health resources [6/5].
- Guidance: Contacts: UKHSA health protection teams [6/5].
- News: UKHSA update on the hantavirus cruise ship outbreak [8/5].
- Guidance: Vaccination of individuals with uncertain or incomplete immunisation [7/5].
- Guidance: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) capabilities at UKHSA – UKHSA leads national and global efforts to combat antimicrobial resistance (AMR) by integrating its scientific, public health, and research capabilities to deliver evidence-based interventions and innovation [8/5].
- Guidance: High consequence infectious disease: country specific risk [8/5].
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
- Press release: Operation Pangea XVIII: UK Border operation intercepts millions of dangerous medicines across two weeks [7/5].
- Press release: MHRA approves donidalorsen (Dawnzera) for the treatment of hereditary angioedema [7/5].
- Press release: MHRA delivers its targets to increase access to medicines and reinforce UK position as a global destination for life sciences [8/5].
BMA
- Press release: BMA calls for urgent action as doctors say advanced practitioner deployment in the NHS compromises patient safety [10/5].
- Press release: BMA responds to media reports on the Single Patient Record [10/5].
Policy, think tanks, charities, and representative bodies
The King’s Fund
- Letting go of certainty: rethinking how we lead in health and care [8/5].
- This blog argues that today’s health and care leaders must move away from heroic, all‑knowing models of leadership and instead learn to work confidently with uncertainty and complexity. As crises, financial pressure and system fragmentation become the norm; the authors suggest leaders cannot “rescue” the system but must create the conditions for collective learning, adaptation and evolution. Effective leadership is framed as relational, curious and morally grounded – focused on listening, sharing influence, inviting diverse perspectives and running small experiments rather than imposing solutions. Embracing complexity, the blog concludes, enables leaders to harness collective intelligence, sustain resilience, and navigate the pressing challenges facing health and care.
- Inside Number 10: the politics behind the smoking ban [6/5].
- This blog offers a first‑hand account of how the Tobacco and Vapes Act emerged amid intense political risk and resistance at the centre of government. Drawing on experience inside No.10, former health adviser Bill Morgan argues that transformative public health policies only succeed when they are personally driven by the prime minister, often at moments when leaders are willing to risk political capital or are nearing the end of their tenure. The blog highlights how Rishi Sunak’s support for a generational smoking ban faced internal concern from advisers worried about backlash and party division, despite strong backing from health leaders such as the Chief Medical Officer. Morgan concludes that while public health measures are usually accepted in hindsight, securing them requires bold leadership, careful timing and a willingness to confront short‑term political danger for long‑term population health gains
- How the generational smoking ban came to pass [5/5].
- This blog explains how the UK’s generational smoking ban — prohibiting the sale of tobacco to anyone born from 2009 onwards from January 2027 — moved from a once‑dismissed “endgame” idea to law. First proposed by global tobacco‑control experts over a decade ago, the policy was unexpectedly championed by former Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak as a life‑saving legacy measure, passed with a free vote and later re‑introduced and enacted by a Labour government. The blog argues that the ban’s success depends on pairing it with strong support for existing smokers to quit, particularly through regulated use of e‑cigarettes, while urgently addressing youth vaping. Together with tougher controls in the Tobacco and Vapes Act, the measure is presented as a historic step towards ending smoking — the UK’s most lethal and long‑running preventable epidemic.
The Health Foundation
- Our strategy to 2030: from insight to impact [5/5].
- The Health Foundation’s new strategy to 2030 sets out how it will move from diagnosing problems to delivering practical impact, in response to worsening health inequalities and declining healthy life expectancy in the UK. Grounded in people’s lived experiences of inequality, the strategy focuses on two priorities: improving health while reducing inequalities and ensuring the long‑term sustainability of health and care services, particularly the NHS. Over the next five years, the Foundation will combine high‑quality research with testing real‑world solutions, strengthen its work on prevention, technology and AI, and expand its role as an independent convener bringing together government, regions, employers and the health sector. By acting as a patient investor and trusted voice, the Foundation aims to turn evidence into action and help build a healthier, fairer UK by 2030.
London Trusts
Barts Health NHS Trust
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Article: Health minister (secondary care) Karin Smyth MP visited Wembley Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) for a tour last month [8/5].
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust