London hospitals are getting ready for more childhood asthma attacks as children go back to school this month. Every September, the number of children rushed to A&E with asthma attacks goes up.   Many children and young people in London have asthma. Fewer children have asthma in London than in the rest of England, but London […]

London’s Black African and Black Caribbean communities are being urged to give blood as new analysis shows that there are thousands of sickle cell patients living in the capital.   Just 3% of donors nationally are from Black communities, yet people of Black African and Black Caribbean heritage are up to ten times more likely […]

Every GP practice in London is now offering women a simple self-swab test for cervical screening, giving thousands more women the opportunity to take part in screening in a way that works for them.   The rollout, now complete across all 1,100 practices in the capital, comes as London works to tackle low screening rates. There are lots of reasons why some […]

London’s NHS treated more than 434,000 people in A&E and responded to almost 134,000 ambulance call-outs in July alone, as the capital sweltered through temperatures of up to 38°C. New figures published today show that despite the extreme heat pushing demand to some of the highest levels on record, London Ambulance Service crews and hospital staff kept performance […]

As hundreds of thousands of students celebrate their A Level results today, the NHS in London is warning freshers that they face a MenB risk seven times higher than young people who don’t go to university, and is urging them to get vaccinated before term starts.  London, with the highest concentration of students in the country, is a potential hotspot for […]

New and upgraded NHS mental health facilities are coming to London, as part of a nationwide programme delivering up to 155 sites across England.  NHS teams across London are working towards opening or upgrading 23 Mental Health Neighbourhood Centres and 10 Mental Health Emergency Departments, in the most significant overhaul of neighbourhood mental health services […]

The independent patient safety investigation (IPSI) into Limb Lengthening services at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust (GOSH) has begun. As the commissioner of these services, NHS England has a responsibility to ensure the NHS learns and improves when standards fall short. This investigation has been commissioned to examine how GOSH responded […]

Patient satisfaction with London GP services is rising, and the government’s new NHS 10 Year Capital Plan, which unlocks one million extra appointments for Londoners every year, will drive it higher still. New figures from the 2026 GP Patient Survey show a positive uplift in patients’ GP experience across London. Eight in ten Londoners (83%) […]

Health leaders are urging Londoners to take extra care this week as extreme heat continues to grip the capital — with temperatures set to remain high this weekend as England’s game on Saturday evening brings millions of people together to celebrate. New figures published today reveal that London recorded 428,463 A&E attendances and 130,929 ambulance incidents in […]

Londoners are being urged to continue accessing NHS services as normal next week as the capital’s health service prepares for a four day resident doctors’ strike coinciding with the start of the football World Cup.  Industrial action by BMA resident doctors will take place from 7:00am on Monday 15 June to 6:59am on Friday 19 […]