Health & Wellbeing

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.......

The body that commissions and pays for NHS services in Enfield is being forced to make sharp reductions in expenditure over the next two years which will inevitably affect the availability of services.  In addition, over the next five years the NHS in the five "North Central London" boroughs will be required to reduce the level of annual expenditure by around £771 million, to be achieved through implementing "Sustainability & Transformation Plans". These savings are required.......

Enfield Clinical Commissioning Group is carrying out an online survey of residents' experience of local Paediatric Assessment Units. There will be a focus group meeting on 23rd August. Please tell us your experience of local Paediatric Assessment Units (PAUs) Paediatric Assessment Units (PAU) provide specialist urgent care services to children aged 0-18. To access care at a PAU, children need to be referred by a health professional. We would like to hear about your experiences of local.......

Public Health England have published an online video emphasizing the health benefits for adults of being physically active and warning against the dangers of the sedentary lifestyles that modern life encourages - eg through the spread of car ownership and time spent watching TV or sitting in front of a computer. {youtube}7VsGoUWsfuI{/youtube} For more information, visit this page on the Public Health England.......

A recently published document provides a detailed timeline of the developing crisis in Accident & Emergency at the North Middlesex Hospital and of the actions taken to mitigate the situation. The document, entitled Quality and Safety Concerns at North Middlesex UniversityHospital, was prepared for discussion at the July meeting of the Governing Body of Haringey Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG)*.  A summary on the front page reads as follows: During the last 18 months, Haringey CCG.......

The Care Quality Commission carried out an inspection of the Emergency Department at the North Middlesex Hosptial last week and has today issued the following press release. The specialist website NHE has published an article based on the press release with a small amount of comment and additional reporting. CQC inspectors find emergency care at North Middlesex University Hospital to be Inadequate Published: 6 July 2016Service: North Middlesex University HospitalProvider: North Middlesex.......

The "watchdog" organisation Healthwatch Enfield has issued its Annual Report for 2015/16. Healthwatch defines its role as follows: Healthwatch Enfield is the independent consumer champion for health and social care in the borough. We’re here to amplify the voices of local people and to help them find the health and social care services that they need. Everything we say and do is informed by our connections to local people. Our sole focus is on understanding the needs, positive.......

An article in the Guardian has revealed that there is a serious risk that the Accident & Emergency Department at the North Middlesex Hospital may be forced to close in the near future because an acute shortage of doctors means that it is unable to provide a sufficient level of patient safety. North Mid has one of the busiest A&E departments in the country, treating up to 500 cases per day. Though it has been clear for some time that there were serious problems with the North Mid's.......

Do you have questions about GPs in your local area? Want to give us some feedback on your local practice? Healthwatch Enfield will be holding a twitter Question and Answer session next Friday on GPs in Enfield. Staff will be on hand to answer any questions you have about GPs in your local area and to listen to your feedback. To take part simply tweet using the hashtag #myGP on Friday 17th June between 11.30am and 2pm. Our twitter feed is.......

Despite increases in the borough's population, the organisation that pays for NHS services in Enfield is being asked to cut its expenditure by nearly five per cent this year. The scale of savings being required was revealed at the 11th May meeting of the governing body of Enfield Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG). At the meeting it was confirmed that the CCG has been ordered to institute a Recovery Plan in order to clear its deficit, totalling £33.4 million. This figure equates to nearly.......