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: Management of laboratory confirmed mpox infections [7/7].
- Guidance: Health inequalities and equality legal duties: A reference document for NHS commissioners and providers [9/7].
- Letter: Your invitation to be involved in the National Neighbourhood Health Implementation Programme [9/7].
Department of Health and Social Care
- Press release: More NHS dentistry for those who need it most [8/7].
- Report: Review of patient safety across the health and care landscape [8/7].
- Guidance: Pandemic preparedness, prevention and response: health and care research and development framework [8/7].
- Correspondence:BMA resident doctor ballot outcome [9/7].
- Guidance: Public health grants to local authorities: 2025 to 2026 [10/7].
- Guidance:Independent commission into adult social care: terms of reference [11/7].
- Press release:Boost for GP practices to help people back to work[11/7].
- A new pilot programme will support people with health conditions back into employment and ease pressure on doctors.
UK Health Security Agency
- Guidance: Urinary tract infection: diagnostic tools for primary care [7/7].
- Guidance:Vaccination of individuals with uncertain or incomplete immunisation [9/7].
- News:Survey reveals high parental confidence in children’s vaccines [10/7].
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
- Press release: Government to align with European specifications on high risk in vitro diagnostic devices to reduce regulatory burden [10/7].
BMA
- Press release: Resident doctors in England urge Health Secretary to negotiate as they vote for industrial action [8/7].
- Press release: Progress on waiting list is due to hard work, dedication and commitment of doctors, says BMA [10/7].
Policy, think tanks, charities, and representative bodies
The Health Foundation
- The heavy lifting on NHS financial reform is still to come [11/7].
- This blog discusses the challenges of NHS financial reform, emphasising that the success of the 10-Year Health Plan depends on overhauling financial systems.
- A framework to support early planning of large-scale change programmes in health and care [10/7].
- This blog introduces a framework to help plan large-scale health and care changes. It offers questions to guide leaders in aligning goals and understanding stakeholders, aiming to improve outcomes.
- Setting the right targets could drive improvements in the nation’s health [7/7].
- This blog emphasises that setting well-designed health targets is crucial for improving public health. It highlights the success of past strategies and the importance of aligning targets with broader social issues.
- 10-year ‘Plan for Change’ or ‘plus ça change’? [7/7].
- This blog critiques the NHS’s new 10-Year Health Plan, noting its ambitious goals but questioning its feasibility. It highlights that while the plan includes many initiatives, it lacks a clear, realistic delivery strategy and sufficient funding. The blog also points out that the plan’s focus on shifting care to the community isn’t new and has been tried before with mixed results.
Ipsos
- Just a quarter of British adults support resident doctors going on strike, half of pre-election figure [11/7].
- Over two in five (43%) Britons think the UK government is doing a bad job at negotiating with the trade unions, nearly double the figure recorded in August 2024.
- What matters to people working in drug and alcohol services? [10/7].
- The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) commissioned Ipsos to survey people working in drug and alcohol treatment and recovery service delivery and commissioning in England.
- 2025 GP Patient Survey results released [9/7].
- The latest GP Patient Survey (GPPS) results have been published, showing a positive shift in experience over the last year. Most patients reported a good overall experience of the following services:
- 75.4% of their GP practice overall (up +1.5 percentage points from 2024).
- 69.6% of contacting their GP practice the last time they tried (up +2.3 percentage points from 2024).
- 57.0% of NHS services when their practice was closed (up +1.1 percentage points from 2024).
- 88.0% of pharmacy services (up +1.2 percentage points from 2024).
- 70.8% of NHS dental services (up +1.6 percentage points from 2024).
- A practical framework for designing change programmes in health care [7/7].
- In collaboration with THIS Institute and the Health Foundation, Ipsos has been exploring what good looks like when designing national programmes in health care. The report marks the first output of an important project aimed at supporting leaders in the health and care sector.
The King’s Fund
- What can English health policy learn from Scotland? A coherent policy approach to population health [11/7].
- This blog highlights Scotland’s new framework for improving population health by focusing on social factors, community roles, and prevention. It suggests England could benefit from a similar approach.
London Trusts
Barts Health NHS Trust
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust