Health & Wellbeing

A local group set up to defend NHS services in Enfield is asking everyone concerned about thefuture of the Health Service to join their surgery’s Patient Participation Group. Dr Martin Blanchard of Defend Enfield NHS explains: “We are asking people concerned about the future of the NHS to join their local Patient Participation Group because it will help us discover in more detail what exactly is going on in Enfield and will provide more opportunities for us to probe and question.......

David Flint attended the Chase Farm Hospital update at the Dugdale Centre on Tuesday and has kindly shared with us his summary of what was said.  We also have the PowerPoint slides used at the presentation. The new hospital is within budget, it will open in August - as promised four years ago - and they've raised more money than expected from the sale of spare land. What about services and quality? The hospital will provide planned ("elective") treatments in eight operating theatres.......

Details of a public meeting about redevelopment of Chase Farm hospital.

On Saturday 3rd February people concerned about the current state and future of the NHS will be marching from University College Hospital to Downing Street*.  Each group and each individual will have different views about what they want for the health service, but there are two things that all of them, and I hope all of you, would like from the prime minister and chancellor: urgent steps to resolve the current crisis;  and the opening up to public and parliamentary scrutiny of.......

Are you a patient or carer affected by cancer? Would you like to help shape cancer services and improve early diagnosis? UCLH Cancer Collaborative has various opportunities for people who have had cancer treatment, or cared for someone who has had cancer treatment, to get involved. The involvement opportunities are Being a patient representative on a Pathway Board or Expert Reference Group – deadline 28th January Joining the Patient Experience and User Involvement Steering Group.......

At its meeting on 16 January Enfield Council's Health Scrutiny Panel will be briefed on the Council's strategies to tackle public health and health inequalties by Tessa Lindfield, Director of Public Health, and Glenn Stewart, Assistant Director of Public Health. The briefing paper provided for the meeting notes that "The role of public health is to advise on the design of Council and NHS services and the design of Enfield as a place to promote health and reduce inequalities. This recognises.......

A message from Defend Enfield NHS:  "The NHS is under immediate threat and everyone who appreciates its benefits and wants them to continue needs to consider helping pay for a court case against the Health Secretary." Exaggerated alarmist language from a bunch of amateurs? Well, it's true that the local NHS defence group can boast only one retired consultant among its members, but the court case that they are urging us to support was taken out by four leading experts on the NHS - Dr.......

Chase Farm hospital has paid nearly £2.5 million in rates over the past five years and faces an increase of £60,000 this financial yearChase Farm, Barnet and the North Middlesex hospitals, in common with NHS hospitals throughout the country, are facing increased business rates, while many private hospitals, classified as charities, have their business rates reduced by 80 per cent. This seemingly anomalous situation was revealed by Enfield Over 50s Forum in their most.......

The decision of Enfield NHS commissioners to go ahead with cutting access to a list of NHS operations and other procedures has been strongly criticised by Monty Meth, president of the Enfield Over 50s Forum, and by the watchdog body Healthwatch Enfield. As expected, the governing body of Enfield Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) approved stricter criteria for a list of 11 procedures and treatments at its meeting on 20th September.  Interviewed after the meeting by the Enfield Independent,.......

The start of the letter sent to the head of NHS England. The full text is at the end of this article.Leaders of five North London boroughs have requested a meeting with the head of the NHS in England to discuss their very serious concerns about evolving plans to transform the delivery of health services in their area. The council leaders complain that, despite the stated aim of working in collaboration with councils to improve services and health outcomes, they are in practice being.......