On 16th and 20th March 2022 we visited Bridgewood House, a nursing and residential care home in Enfield. This report outlines our findings and recommendations from our visit.
Care Homes have been closed to visitors since March 2020. For the first time in almost two years, we’re starting up our programme of Enter and View visits to assess how residents are doing as a result of the pandemic.
The changes come after the Department of Health and Social Care announced the end of the shielding programme for people identified as ‘clinically extremely vulnerable’
We are working with five other Healthwatch branches to gather local insight into your experiences of Long COVID to support the development of services and systems.
We have recently heard from 390 local people about their experiences of accessing Primary Care* and local GPs throughout the pandemic and have published a report to share our findings.