Health landscape report: 5 – 9 February 2024

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.  

Please feel free to share any useful stats/links you think we could include in future reports.  

Official bodies    

NHS Digital 

• All recent data releases can be seen here. 
• Guidance: Nursing preceptorship in adult prison healthcare – best practice guidance [5/2]. 
• Guidance: Measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccination invitation [6/2]. 
• Letter: NHS England’s position on physician associates, 7 February 2024 letter to Royal College of Physicians [7/2]. 

Department for Health and Social Care 

• Guidance: UK reciprocal healthcare agreements with non-EU countries [6/2]. 
• Press release: Children and Young People Cancer Taskforce launched to save lives [6/2]. 
• Guidance: Social care charging for local authorities: 2024 to 2025 [9/2]. 

UK Health Security Agency  

• Guidance: Immunisation update webinars for primary care immunisers 2023 and 2024 [6/2]. 
• News story: Latest measles statistics published [8/2]. 

Ofsted 

• Guidance: Social care surveys: guidance for providers [5/2]. 

Health and Social Care Committee  

• News: Chair Comment: Reform of dental contract ‘missing piece’ from government recovery plan [7/2]. 

Policy, think tanks, charities and representative bodies    

NHS Confederation 

• Article:Patients facing long waits as pressure mounts on A&Es [8/2]. 

NHS Providers 

• Article:More funding needed to reverse years of public health funding cuts[5/2]. 
• Article: Racism findings highlight need for urgent action [6/2]. 

King’s Fund   

• Blog: Staff shortages: what’s behind the headlines? [6/2]. 

• It is well known that the NHS is suffering from staff shortages, with 121,000 full-time equivalent (FTE) vacancies and only 26% of the workforce stating there are enough staff at their organisation. 

Nuffield Trust 

• Blog: Privatisation by the front door: what does a new public-private GP model mean? [5/2]. 

London Trusts    

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust 

• Article: Bridging the gap: TOPAS and WICU embark on nursing exchange programme [8/2]. 

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust   

• Article: New partnership aims to improve local air quality [9/2]. 

• Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is joining forces with Hammersmith & Fulham Council (H&F) and Imperial College London for a three-year partnership to improve local air quality. 

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust   

• Article: Longest surviving heart transplant patient in the world celebrating over 39 years of a new heart [8/2]. 

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust   

• Article: Building noise and vibrations at Ealing Hospital [8/2]. 

• Work on the construction of a new community diagnostic centre at Ealing Hospital continues.