News and reports

Welcome to our Healthwatch Barnet newsletter for July.
We would like to start by thanking our fantastic volunteers who have contributed over 1,700 hours of their time and expertise in helping developing health and social care services. Read on to find out more about their activity and our Healthwatch Barnet projects.
Through Volunteers’ Week in June, we held an information session and lunch for our great bunch of Volunteers, and would like to offer a big thank you to all our volunteers who contribute so much to our organisation!

On Wednesday 14th June 2017 we celebrated volunteer's week with a celebratory lunch to thank all the hard work our volunteers have contributed throughout the year. We also had a guest speaker from Argenti Telecare Service who provide healthcare technology.

This announced E&V visit was part of a planned strategy to look at the quality of care provided at a range of care & nursing homes within Barnet. Elmhurst Residential Home is a privately run home for up to 30 older people living with dementia.

This was an announced E&V follow-up visit to one carried out on 10th November 2015 as part of a planned strategy to look at a range of care and nursing homes within Barnet to obtain a better idea of the quality of care provided.

This was an un-announced E&V visit as part of a planned strategy to look at a range of care and nursing homes within Barnet to obtain a better idea of the quality of care provided.

This was an announced E&V visit as part of a planned strategy to look at a range of care and nursing homes within Barnet to obtain a better idea of the quality of care provided. Acacia Lodge is a privately run residential home for up to 32 older people, the majority of whom have some form of dementia.

This was an announced E&V visit as part of a planned set of visits to look at a range of care provision within Barnet to obtain a better idea of the quality of care provided. Speedwell House is a Sheltered Housing Plus unit, which provides for tenants who have been designated by Barnet Social Services as needing day and night care.

Healthwatch Barnet visited the Fracture Clinic at Barnet Hospital in November 2016. This followed receipt of a number of comments from patients over a period of time that clinics were overcrowded, with some patients forced to stand and that the waiting time at clinics was excessive. However, this report highlights a positive outcome as a result of the Virtual Fracture Clinic

This report summarises two announced Enter and View visits undertaken by Healthwatch Barnet to look at the services provided to the public at Finchley Memorial Hospital’s Walk-in-Centre, particularly focusing on patient experience at this site.

This report gives an overall view on dementia services in Barnet.

This was an announced E&V as part of a planned strategy to look at a range of care and nursing homes within Barnet to obtain a better idea of the quality of care provided. This is a purpose-built nursing/care home opened in 1992 and run by the SAGE charity.

This is an announced E&V visit undertaken by Healthwatch Barnet’s E&V Representatives. The team observed a weekday lunch at Henry Nihil House. This mealtime
visit follows a previous more in depth Healthwatch Barnet E&V visit carried out in June 2015