1. Enter and View: Athenaeum Residential Care Home (safeguarding)

    Report -

    This announced E&V visit was part of a planned set of visits reviewing safeguarding at a range of care and nursing homes within Barnet.

  2. Enter and View: Arkley Nursing Home (Safeguarding)

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    Our Enter and View team conducted this announced visit to Acacia Lodge Care Home as part of a planned set of visits reviewing safeguarding at a range of care and nursing homes within Barnet.

  3. Enter and View: Acacia Lodge Care Home (Safeguarding)

    Report -

    Our Enter and View team conducted this announced visit to Acacia Lodge Care Home as part of a planned set of visits reviewing safeguarding at a range of care and nursing homes within Barnet.

  4. Enter and View: Elmhurst Residential Home

    Report -

    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.

  5. Enter and View : Henry Nihill House

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    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

  6. Dementia in Barnet

    Report -

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

  7. Barnet Care Homes and the impact of COVID-19

    Report -

    A new report into the impact on Barnet care homes of the COVID-19 pandemic.

  8. Snapshot Insight Report: the Barriers to Advance Care Planning

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    For our new Snapshot Insight report we spoke to Barnet people about what they understand Advance Care Planning to mean, in order to help local GPs overcome the barriers stopping people accessing the many benefits of ACP.

  9. Hospital transport

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    In summer and autumn 2018, we were contacted by community organisations, individuals and some GP staff about the difficulties patients were experiencing in using hospital transport for their journeys to and from Royal Free Hospital sites.

  10. Improving Healthwatch Barnet's communication with young people

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    This is a Middlesex University & Healthwatch Barnet Collaborative report as a result of four MSc students working with HW to understand their role and help them better communicate and engage with young people aged 18 - 30 years.

  11. Experiences of podiatry services in Barnet

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    After being made aware of issues for service users not being able to continue accessing NHS podiatry services, Healthwatch Barnet decided to look at the alternatives that are available locally to understand the options open to Barnet residents.

  12. The 15 Steps Challenge

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    Read about the experience of one of our volunteers who was invited to participate in a "15 Steps" visit to the Children's Orthoptics Clinic at Vale Drive Primary Care Centre, Barnet. This paediatric eye service includes screening, diagnosis and treatment for children within the Borough.

  13. A report on patient experience at the fracture clinic at Barnet Hospital

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    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

  14. Barnet residents have their say on remote GP appointments

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    Throughout the pandemic, GPs had to adjust their services to reduce the risk of spreading COVID-19. Healthwatch Barnet has gathered insight from residents to find out what they make of the new arrangements and remote appointments.