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On Monday 16 November, Healthwatch Camden organised a ‘Health and Wellbeing Consultation Seminar’ on behalf of Camden and Islington Public Health, who wanted to gather feedback on the draft Health and Wellbeing strategy. Delegates were members of local community organisations.
On 3 December Healthwatch Camden issued a report entitled ‘GP practices in Camden: A study of variation 2015’.The report revealed wide variations in both patient experience and in the delivery of clinical services across Camden’s 36 GP practices.
Since the 2015 General Election, Keir has been the Labour Member of Parliament for Holborn and St Pancras. He was the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and the Head of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) from 2008 to 2013. He has prosecuted in numerous cases for the CPS during his career, acting principally as a defence lawyer specialising in the law of human rightsTalking about health and social care in Camden…
On 23 November we held our Annual General Meeting (AGM). During the event we welcomed a new trustee – Saloni Thakrar. We presented our annual report and accounts – Look out for our annual accounts and a report from the meeting in the next couple of weeks.
On 21 October Healthwatch Camden held a Mother tongue focus group for Somali Women, facilitated by Somali Youth Development Resource Centre (SYDRC).This was organised as part of the focus groups in mother tongue work to find out about access to GP services, what is good and what can be improved.We want to know what our Somali community think so that local planning of health and social care services includes people from all communities and ages.
During October, Healthwatch Camden with Camden Council and the Adult Social Care Scrutiny Committee Panel, held focus groups with the Bangladeshi community.We wanted to learn from Camden’s Bangladeshi community in order to drive and sustain improvements in their health and wellbeing.
The Margaret Pyke Centre is a well-known clinic, providing contraception and other sexual health services to women in Camden, Islington and beyond. Around 40% of the service users come from Camden and Islington, the rest from elsewhere.
On Monday 23 November we’re holding our Annual General Meeting (AGM). The venue is the Arlington Conference Centre, 220 Arlington Road, Camden, London, NW1 7HE between 6 – 8.30pm.
An inspector calls… Or in fact, several inspectors. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is carrying out inspections on several Camden services in the coming months. In November, they are conducting a thematic review of integrated care for older people in the borough.
Service change happens for all sorts of reasons, some welcome, some less welcome. People affected by service change should be consulted about it, and the impact of change should be properly assessed. In Camden services change all the time. How can Healthwatch Camden check that necessary consultation and impact assessment is happening – and that where it happens, it makes a difference?