News and reports

Healthwatch carried out an independent evaluation of 'Building and sustaining bridges of inclusion', Arachne's Lottery-funded advice and information project

Sadly, we were not surprised to read in the Islington Tribune that regulators found home care services to be lower quality than we should expect.

Healthwatch Islington has achieved the Investing in Volunteers Quality Standard for good practice in volunteer management.

Confidential patient information identifies you and says something about your health, care or treatment. You would expect this information to be kept private.

Camden and Islington Clinical Commissioning Groups are consulting on the proposed redevelopment of Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust‘s St Pancras Hospital site.

Islington's Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder service for adults is making more support available more quickly.

Find materials for this meeting of the Islington Patient Group.

Local Healthwatch from Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey and Islington organised surveys, focus groups and interviews to find out what people thought of existing services and to get ideas on how to make services better.

How do GP practices in Islington make their services accessible to patients with a communication support need?

Healthwatch asked Islington residents using services like podiatry, physiotherapy, and district nursing to share their views about waiting times.

Our volunteers visited all the GP practices in the borough to get a sense of how easy it is for them to meet the Accessible Information Standard.

We asked local residents using community health services like podiatry and physiotherapy whether they felt they were waiting a long time for an appointment. We wanted to learn whether that had any impact on their health.