Health landscape report: 6 July – 10 July

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. 

• Data:National Medical Examiner reports [6/7]. 

• News:Around a million parents urged to book new ‘four-in-one’ NHS jab to protect young children against measles [7/7]. 

• Guidance:Preventing unlawful access to patient records [8/7]. 

• Guidance:National standards for healthcare portering services[8/7]. 

Department of Health and Social Care 

• Guidance: NHS staff standards [6/7]. 

• The NHS staff standards set national minimum employment requirements to improve staff experience, outlining employer actions and what staff can expect. 

• Press release: NHS sets first-ever staff standards to tackle racism and violence [6/7]. 

• New NHS staff standards will make employers accountable for tackling racism, violence and sexual harassment, with results published in league tables. 

• Press release: New heart disease and strokes plan to save thousands of lives [7/7]. 

• Press release: 10 Year Capital Plan to rebuild NHS and bring care closer to home [8/7]. 

• Government announces 10 Year Capital Plan to modernise NHS buildings, upgrade GP surgeries and bring more care closer to patients’ homes. 

• Press release:UK life sciences attracts £3bn investment, creating jobs and faster patient treatments [9/7]. 

• Guidance: Physical activity guidelines: UK Chief Medical Officers’ report [9/7]. 

• Press release:Ministers launch crackdown on vapes targeting kids [10/7]. 

UK Health Security Agency 

• Guidance:Polio: global eradication, NAC and environmental surveillance[7/7]. 

• Guidance: Rotavirus vaccination programme: information for healthcare practitioners [7/7]. 

• Guidance:Looking after children and those in early years settings before and during hot weather: teachers and other educational professionals[8/7]. 

• Guidance: High consequence infectious disease: country specific risk [9/7]. 

Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency 

• Guidance: Clinical trials for medicines: ending a clinical trial [6/7]. 

• Guidance:Clinical trials for medicines: roles and responsibilities[7/7]. 

• Press release:Nerandomilast (Jascayd) approved to treat adult patients with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis and Progressive Pulmonary Fibrosis[8/7]. 

• Press release:MHRA safety review gives UK plasma donations go ahead [9/7]. 

• Press release: Heat, travel and late nights: How summer can affect your medicines and how to stay safe [9/7]. 

• Guidance:Find product information about medicines[10/7]. 

Policy, think tanks, charities, and representative bodies  

The King’s Fund 

• Press release: Latest NHS performance stats show an NHS under year-round strain [9/7]. 

• Press release: The King’s Fund responds to the GP Patient Survey [9/7]. 

• Responding to the annual GP Patient Survey published by NHS England, Beccy Baird, Senior Fellow at The King’s Fund, said: ‘These results clearly show the front door of the NHS is becoming easier to open. Patients are starting to feel the benefits of improvements being made despite significant pressures facing services, as GPs and practice teams continue to deliver around 30 million appointments every month.’ 

• Press release: New research from The King’s Fund finds that delayed discharges cost NHS £2.7bn, up 7.5% on previous year [7/7]. 

• The financial cost of delayed discharges has risen to £2.7bn in 2025/26, up 7.5% in just one-year, new King’s Fund analysis has found. 

Nuffield Trust 

• Press release: Climate change raises the year-round pressure on the NHS [9/7]. 

YouGov 

• Survey: Would you support or oppose senior doctors (consultants) going on strike over pay and pensions? [7/7]. 

• 35% of responses strongly opposed. 

• Tracker:How Brits feel about getting medical advice from a doctor via video link rather than in person [7/7]. 

London Trusts    

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust 

• Article:An experimental non-invasive procedure which uses high energy soundwaves is safe and could potentially treat a serious pregnancy condition called twin-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS), according to an early-stage research trial involving UK and European patients[10/7]. 

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 

• Article:A pilot transplantation programme, which is estimated to enable up to 200 extra liver transplants a year if fully established, is now underway at three hospital trusts, including King’s[6/7].