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: Board member appraisal guidance [9/3].
- Regulatory: Regulatory action: licensed independent healthcare providers [9/3].
- Report: NHS England’s 2025 staff survey results [12/3].
- Data: National Quarterly Pulse Survey data [12/3].
Department of Health and Social Care
- Guidance: Public health grants to local authorities: 2026 to 2027 [9/3].
- The public health grant allocations and monetary conditions for local authorities to improve health in local populations.
- Press release: Better community care thanks to nursing funding boost [9/3].
- Around 80,000 people will be better supported in the community following a 5.4% increase in funding for nursing care.
- Press release: More dentists coming as government boosts number who can practise [10/3].
- Guidance: Healthy child programme: commissioning public health nursing services [12/3].
UK Health Security Agency
- Guidance: Easy read guide to the shingles vaccine [10/3].
- News: Midwives remain the most trusted source of information on pregnancy vaccination [11/3].
- News: Survey reveals 1 in 3 parents believe children always need antibiotics for ear infections [11/3].
- Guidance: Pre-release access lists: National norovirus and rotavirus surveillance reports [12/3].
- News: UKHSA and Stablepharma highlight breakthrough with fridge-free tetanus and diphtheria vaccine [13/3].
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
- Guidance: Clinical trials for medicines: expert advice [9/3].
- Press release: Global impact of UK health data resource highlighted in newly published paper [10/3].
- Standard: Implementation of medical devices future regime [12/3].
- News: The £1.4bn opportunity: How reclassification can transform healthcare, improve access to medicines and enable growth [12/3].
BMA
- Press release: Penny-pinching NHS trusts put Cheshire and Merseyside patients at risk [12/3].
- Press release: NHS Staff Survey findings ‘paint a disturbing picture’, says BMA [12/3].
Policy, think tanks, charities, and representative bodies
The King’s Fund
- Before the next bill lands: What history tells us about NHS reorganisation [13/3].
- This blog argues that repeated NHS reorganisations rarely achieve their aims because behaviour and culture matter more than structural change, and many major shifts in the service have happened without legislation. It warns that sweeping reforms often distract from improving care, urging any new bill to be tightly focused, with clear long‑term goals and lessons learned from past failed restructures.
- The GP employment paradox: why GP trainees are worried about finding jobs in a system short of GPs [9/3].
- This blog highlights a “GP employment paradox”: despite longstanding commitments to expand the GP workforce, many GP trainees lack confidence they will secure a job after qualifying. Survey findings show newly trained GPs increasingly struggle to find posts due to underfunded primary care, the rise of non‑GP roles funded through the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme (ARRS), and the fact that practices often prefer these fully funded roles over hiring GPs. Although recent contract changes aim to redirect funding back toward GP employment, much of this money is already committed, leaving trainees anxious about their futures in a system that paradoxically needs more GPs but offers fewer stable roles.
The Health Foundation
- Louise Casey’s social care speech puts down a marker – and underlines tough choices ahead [13/3].
- Louise Casey’s first speech as Chair of the Independent Commission on Adult Social Care highlights a fragile, undervalued social care system marked by low pay, NHS dominance, and rising pressures from an ageing population. She calls for a national “moment of reckoning” to rebalance investment toward community care and develop long‑overdue structural reform capable of lasting political commitment
- Growth that works: how health can ensure local economic success [10/3].
- This blog argues that economic growth and health are deeply interconnected, with poor health limiting workforce participation and productivity, while housing, transport, and employment decisions shape long‑term wellbeing. It highlights evidence showing that local economic development strategies can improve health when designed intentionally, and showcases examples from areas like Greater Manchester, Havant, Torfaen, and Blaenau Gwent where joined‑up, whole‑system approaches are already delivering benefits. The piece stresses the need for supportive national funding, coherent local frameworks, better impact measurement, and meaningful community involvement to scale and sustain this progress, ensuring that local growth efforts actively improve health and reduce inequalities
Care Quality Care
- CQC publishes research on good practice for dementia care [10/3].
- The CQC’s new research report outlines key elements of good dementia care, based on a review of UK and international practice and insights from experts and people with lived experience. It identifies approaches that improve quality of life, including co‑produced care plans, meaningful social interaction, and opportunities for community belonging, as well as supporting people to maintain familiar routines in smaller, homelike settings. The report also emphasises the importance of cultural and language‑appropriate support to foster trust and identity. These findings will inform the CQC’s developing dementia strategy and forthcoming provider guidance, aligning with recent national recommendations on dementia care
Nuffield Trust
- Food for thought: addressing misinformation and polarised views in health care [11/3].
- This blog reflects on a Nuffield Trust Summit session exploring the growing divide between experts and the public in understanding health and science. It highlights how conversations about data quickly shift to deeper issues of beliefs, trust, and humanity, noting that while public health gains like high childhood vaccination rates remain strong, misinformation persists and must be met with clear, humble, and respectful communication. Using public segmentation data, the piece illustrates a stark values gap between senior health leaders and the wider population, underscoring how polarisation makes it harder for institutions to connect with communities. Ultimately, the blog argues that tackling misinformation requires not just facts, but a willingness to understand people’s lived experiences and the social dynamics shaping their views.
Institute of Health Equity
- We need a national plan to tackle the health inequity that is killing people [10/3].
- Readers respond to The Guardian article by Aditya Chakrabortty about the decline in healthy life expectancy in the UK, including the author that inspired that article, Alan Walker, Emeritus professor of social policy and social gerontology, University of Sheffield.
General Medical Council
- GMC’s perception survey published [10/3].
- The General Medical Council (GMC) has published its latest survey of how it is perceived by patients and the public, doctors, physician associates (PAs) and anaesthesia associates (AAs).
London Trusts
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Article: A new research hub will create open-source computer models of organs to help accelerate the development of new medicines [13/3].
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust