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:Network Contract DES 2025/26: part B guidance: non-clinical[6/5].
- NHS Standard Contract:NHS Standard Contract 2025/26 technical guidance[8/5].
- Guidance: Newborn hearing screening programme: standards [8/5].
- Guidance:Being fair tool: Supporting staff following a patient safety incident [9/5].
Department of Health and Social Care
- Press release:GP surgery refurbs to enable over 8 million more appointments [6/5].
- Patients to access over 8.3 million new appointments this year, helping deliver the government’s Plan for Change.
- Speech: Wes Streeting speech: Delivering our Plan for Change for workers [8/5].
- Press release:VE Day boost for veterans’ healthcare [8/5].
- Government announces £1.8 million investment to transform NHS care for veterans, serving personnel and their families.
UK Health Security Agency
- Guidance:Mpox: affected countries[7/5].
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
- Guidance: Medical devices: list of UK approved bodies [6/5].
- Press release:MHRA approves teprotumumab as the first UK treatment for adults with moderate to severe Thyroid Eye Disease (TED)[7/5].
BMA
- Press release: BMA responds to new funding for GP surgery refurbishments [5/5].
Policy, think tanks, charities and representative bodies
The King’s Fund
- Blog: Health inequalities: impatient for change from a government committed to tackling them [7/5].
- Press release:The King’s Fund responds to the formal start of the Independent Commission on Adult Social Care [2/5].
Nuffield Trust
- Press release:Nuffield Trust response to Select Committee report on cost of inaction on social care[5/5].
- Long read: Diverging paths: How other countries have designed and implemented assisted dying [9/5].
The Health Foundation
- Analysis:Digitising the NHS and adult social care [8/5].
- Press release: Response to the Select Committee report on cost of inaction on social care [5/5].
London Trusts
Barts Health NHS Trust
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust