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
Janice Tausig
A volunteer with Healthwatch Barnet, Janice is aware of the important role of raising awareness of health and social care issues, grounded in an independence, openness and transparency.
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
Read the Healthwatch Barnet Advisory Board Terms of Reference
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 Board Member not complying may be required to step down.
Minutes for the Healthwatch Barnet Advisory Board Meeting 6 July
Download and read the minutes from the Advisory Board Meeting, held 6 July and the Powerpoint presentation that accompanies them. You can also download the minutes of the Advisory Board Meeting, held 25 May.