Meet our board

Our Board works to ensure that we are fulfilling our legal and statutory obligations.

Find out more about our board members and what they do. 

Board Members

Jennifer Pearl

Jennifer is the Chair of the Healthwatch Barnet Advisory Board. She works as an Expert by Experience for the Care Quality Commission. She supports inspections of hospitals, care homes and domiciliary care agencies giving people who use services and their relatives a voice in the inspection process. Jennifer also sits on Think Local Act Personal's National Co-production Advisory Group and is the Co-Chair of Inclusion Barnet. 

Auren Ghazal

Auren Ghazal is 47 years old and has lived in UK for 30 years, he is originally from Israel. Auren works for a company that provides hotel supplies. He loves his job and communicating with everybody.

Debra Gordon 

As an accomplished senior healthcare executive with significant leadership experience, Debra is passionate about driving strategic change, addressing complex health disparities and improving healthcare services.
 
With an MSc in International Primary Healthcare, she has effectively incorporated socio-economic values and patient perspectives into evidence-based decision making across the healthcare landscape, including central Government, the NHS, charities/non-profits, academia, and the pharmaceutical industry. She remains dedicated to promoting sustainable access to healthcare and medicines while actively advocating for patient engagement.
 

Jenny Blyth

Jenny has been a self-employed online gift shop owner for the past 10 years. She has a real passion for advocating for better mental health care and services within the borough of Barnet, and wants to be part of the change. In addition to her work on the Healthwatch Barnet Advisory Board, Jenny is involved in speaking openly about the issues facing people with mental illness in the small business community as well as locally. 

Richard Strong 

Richard has recently retired from running a global clinical software business, following a long-term career in Healthcare and Healthcare IT. Richard started his career working in NHS pathology laboratories and then moved to specialise in healthcare IT and consulting, with experience of healthcare in many countries around the world. Richard holds an MSc in Intelligent Systems and is a Fellow of the Institute of Biomedical Science.

Following recent experience with the challenges navigating local healthcare services, Richard is passionate about ensuring the right services are available, are well coordinated and can be easily accessed by everyone.

Stewart Block

Stewart was introduced to Healthwatch through his GP’s Patient Participation Group. He was semi-retired from business and it provided an opportunity to experience a different type of organisation. His first projects were with our Enter and View programme, and he has also been involved with Healthwatch Barnet's work on Long Covid and remote GP Consultations. He says his reward for this voluntary work is seeing the improvements that we can bring.

 

Healthwatch Barnet Advisory Board - Terms of Reference

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Code of Conduct

Healthwatch Barnet has a duty to protect the name, brand and reputation of Healthwatch and Inclusion Barnet. The purpose of this Code of Conduct is to set the standards of behaviour expected from all Board Members. The following Code of Conduct will be actively monitored and if a Board Member is not complying they may be required to step down.

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Code of Conduct - Easy Read Version
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Minutes of our Advisory Board meetings

Download and read the minutes from our Advisory Board meetings.

Healthwatch Barnet Advisory Board - Minutes meeting held 30 July
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Healthwatch Barnet Advisory Board - Minutes meeting held 25 May
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