Health & Wellbeing

The five Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) in north central London (Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey and Islington) are proposing to commission the NHS 111 and GP out-of-hours services through a combined contract across north central London (NCL). Engagement with local people has been ongoing. As part of the commissioning process, contract documentation will be created to describe the kind of service that is required - this is called a service specification. This will help organisations who.......

LYDS-TV, the YouTube channel created by the Love Your Doorstep website, has recorded an interview with Fiona Jackson, who has been the Director of Chase Farm Hospital since its takeover by the Royal Free last year. Ms Jackson explains the background to the relocation of the urgent care centre and other services, describes the parking arrangements and talks about the future of the rebuilt hospital.  She also mentions the new school and housing that will be built on land that currently forms.......

To enable construction of the new buildings at Chase Farm Hospital, some services have been or are about to be temporarily relocated.   They include the Urgent Care Centre, which will relocate on 4th August. The table below sets out what services are due to move, where they will move, and when: ServiceNew locationDate of move Older person's assessment unit Highlands wing 20 July 2015 Sleep and lung function clinic Highlands wing 22 July 2015 Rheumatology.......

Enfield Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), together with Barnet, Camden, Haringey and Islington CCGs, are proposing to commission NHS 111 and GP out-of-hours as a combined service.  They are inviting members of the public to give feedback. The CCGs' preferred option is to let a contract with a single provider who would cover both services for patients in all five boroughs.  They consider that this solution would take account of the following findings based on monitoring of NHS 111.......

Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) in four North London boroughs are looking to improve the NHS 111 service and integrate it with GP out-of-hours provision.  Residents are invited to attend public engagement events, as described below: NHS 111 and GP out of hours services engagement events15 April 2015 NHS Clinical Commissioning Groups in north central London (Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey and Islington) have a vision to ensure the voices of patients and carers are at the heart of.......

Enfield Clinical Commissioning Group is running two events regarding plans to combine the delivery of health services and social care services.  They would like to draw on the experiences of people who Are 65 years old or older (or care for someone that is) Use health and/or social care services regularly (GP, Social Care, Occupational Services, District Services etc.) Have attended Accident and Emergency Services recently; or Have been admitted to hospital recently. Event details.......

Healthwatch Enfield are recommending A Practical Guide to Healthy Ageing, which has just been published jointly by NHS England and Age UK.  According to the introduction, "the advice in this booklet will help improve the health and general fitness of people of any age, but it is written to be particularly relevant for people who are about 70 years or older. "People of this age, and sometimes younger, begin a ‘slowing-down’ process related to the effects of ageing on their body. This is a.......

A briefing given to a meeting of Enfield Council's Health Scrutiny Standing Workstream held on 17 December has provided more details of the Royal Free Hospital's plans to redevelop the Chase Farm Hospital site. As previously reportedOne of the presentation slides (to see the complete presentation, click on the image), most of the existing buildings will be demolished and the land will be used for housing and a new primary school.  A new, more compact hospital building will be constructed on.......

The application for outline planning permission to redevelop Chase Farm Hospital is available on the Enfield Council website (click on this link).  Members of the public are able to submit comments up until 15th January. The application seeks approval for the principle of the development, the amount of development, the maximum three-dimensional extent of development and access arrangements. If approved, these would form the parameters upon which future reserved matters applications would be.......

Would you like to help improve local health and social care services? Can you help Healthwatch Enfield reach out to local communities and find out about their experiences as patients, carers and service users? Do you have personal experience, skills and enthusiasm to offer? We welcome and value contributions from all sections of the community, including people of all ages from 16 upwards. We are currently looking for volunteers for the following roles: Community Outreach volunteer: reach.......