How our Healthwatch work together across North Central London

We are led by the needs and feedback of our local communities. All five Healthwatch (Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey, and Islington) meet regularly to coordinate joint work across North Central London, particularly where we share service providers.

We work together to gather resident experiences and influence what is commissioned. Our organisations are independent, and as such our staff do not sit on statutory decision-making panels. However, we champion effective and inclusive resident, patient, and carer involvement, and may be able to help services to reach residents.

A note for commissioners: We are currently represented by Healthwatch Enfield on three Integrated Care Board committees – the Quality and Safety Committee, the Primary Care Contracting Committee, and the Community Engagement Steering Group. This representative role is rotated between Healthwatch on an annual basis. At our monthly team meeting, Enfield updates the other Healthwatch and gathers their feedback for these committees. For all other queries, we ask that all five of us be approached for North Central London queries, or the borough Healthwatch for borough-based queries.

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Joint Project Work

Examples of work we’ve done together include raising awareness of hypertension and accessing Long Covid services.

Currently, Enfield and Barnet are delivering a project on GP access, and all five of us are in regular contact about this. For questions about the Barnet work, email info@healthwatchbarnet.co.uk, and for questions about this GP access project in Camden, Haringey, and Islington, please get in touch with Enfield in the first instance, as they are playing the role of co-ordinating across these four boroughs - admin@healthwatchenfield.co.uk

All five Healthwatch work with a number of voluntary sector partners and these partners may span more than one borough.