News and reports

Between April and August, Healthwatch Enfield staff and volunteers supported the London Borough of Enfield telephone befriending scheme in response to the Coronavirus outbreak

From mid-May to mid-June, we engaged with local people to hear about how the Coronavirus outbreak was impacting their health and wellbeing. Enfield residents shared their experiences with us by completing our online survey.

During lockdown, we engaged with young adults (aged 15-25) in Enfield to understand how the Coronavirus outbreak has been impacting them. This report outlines the main findings from our research and our recommendations concerning next steps.

In March 2020, Healthwatch Enfield organised a re-visit of Nairn House, to assess how our recommendations had been taken into consideration from our previous visit in 2018. This report outlines our findings and recommendations from our recent visit.

Healthwatch Enfield engaged with service users and their carers to hear their experiences of using Continuing Healthcare in Enfield. Find out more by reading our report.

Read our report outlining residents' feedback about Primary Care Networks and Social Prescribing during our Annual Conference 2020.

Our annual report tells the story of our work over the past year. Find out more about what we've achieved in 2019-2020.

After concerns were raised regarding people's experience of the Charles Coward ward (NMUH), we conducted an unannounced Enter and View visit. Read our full Enter and View report after our visit, on October 18th 2019, to assess the quality of care.

Read our report on Enfield's young people's experience of using health and social care services.

Most residents felt care provided at Arnold House was of good standard but a few raised some concerns. Read our full Enter and View report after our visit on November 29th 2019 to assess the quality of care provided.

The Enfield Clinical Commissioning Group have recently proposed changing the closing time of the Chase Farm Hospital Urgent Care Centre, from 10pm to 9pm. 84% of the people we spoke to did not agree with the proposal.

The Government is investing an extra £20bn a year in the NHS until 2023. The NHS has produced a Long Term Plan, setting out all the things it wants health services to do better for people across the country.