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Against the backdrop of growing disquiet about the ability of the NHS in England to cope, local campaigners are questioning Enfield's health commissioning body about its plans to cut back on the types of surgical procedures that will be available from the NHS.
While attention nationally has been focused on accident and emergency departments that are struggling to meet demand, Defend Enfield NHS this week has been concerned with proposals to reduce NHS provision of non-emergency (so-called.......
The Department of Health is carrying out a survey into the experiences of dementia patients and their families and carers. The deadline for responses is 31 January 2017.
Dementia: care, support and awareness
The Government’s aim is for England to be the best place in the world for people with dementia, their families and carers to live and the best place to undertake research into dementia.
We want to hear first-hand from people with dementia, their families and carers if we are.......
Journalists from BBC Inside Out are looking for people who live in Enfield and who have been refused or waited a long time for a cataract operation for a current affairs programme to be shown on BBC 1 regarding the restriction of NHS services.
If you think you would be interested in being interviewed please contact Emma Wass on 0191 2441294 or 07738.......
A booklet has been published under the title Stay Well in Enfield and Haringey This Winter.
The introduction reads as follows:
"With increasing pressures on Accident and Emergency (A&E), particularly in winter, it is important to know what service to choose to best treat your symptoms when you or your family are unwell. Not only can you get faster and better treatment by choosing the right NHS service, but you will help us reduce the pressure on emergency services, so they can help those.......
Joan Ryan, MP for Enfield North, has launched an online petition calling on the Government to take immediate action to ensure that we have the number of GPs we need in Enfield for the size of our population.
She is calling for a plan for at least 84 more GPs in Enfield by 2020, as recommended by the Royal College of General Practitioners.
The petition is online at joanryan.org.uk/moregpsforenfield.......
Enfield Clinical Commissioning Group is proposing to close the paediatric assessment unit at Chase Farm Hospital and instead introduce a "new model of care". Members of the public can give their views - the deadline for responses is 15 January 2017.
Paediatric assessment unit consultation
We want to hear your views about our proposed changes to the Paediatric Assessment Unit at Chase Farm Hospital
The Paediatric Assessment Unit (PAU) at Chase Farm Hospital is open from 9am-9pm, every.......
In defiance of instructions not to do so, two North London councils have published draft proposals for cost-cutting changes to NHS services in the five "North Central London" boroughs - Camden, Islington, Haringey, Enfield and Barnet.
"Lack of public, patient and political involvement"
Councillor Sarah Hayward, leader of Camden Council, took this step because of her "serious reservations" about the process used to draw up the proposals. In a statement published on her council's website.......
A newly formed group of concerned Enfield residents is monitoring changes to NHS services in the borough and plans to form a focus for resistance to further cuts and privatisation.
Members of "Defend Enfield NHS" are particularly concerned about the severe cost-cutting measures that are being forced upon the organisation that purchases all health services in the borough - the Enfield Clinical Commissioning Group (Enfield CCG).
"More difficult to qualify for treatment"
In response to demands.......
Information about plans currently being drawn up to make radical changes to NHS services in Enfield and four other north London boroughs will be made public at a meeting on 26th September.
Details of the meeting at the Dugdale Centre have appeared on the Healthwatch Enfield website (see the box at the bottom of this article).
The plan in question is one of the "Sustainability and Transformation Plans" (STPs) that are currently in development, each covering health and social care in one.......