Board Members

Debra Gordon 

Debra is the Chair of the Healthwatch Barnet Advisory Board. As an accomplished senior healthcare executive with significant leadership experience, Debra is passionate about driving strategic change, addressing complex health disparities and improving healthcare services.
 
With an MSc in International Primary Healthcare, she has effectively incorporated socio-economic values and patient perspectives into evidence-based decision making across the healthcare landscape, including central Government, the NHS, charities/non-profits, academia, and the pharmaceutical industry. She remains dedicated to promoting sustainable access to healthcare and medicines while actively advocating for patient engagement.
 

Jenny Blyth

Jenny has been a self-employed online gift shop owner for the past 10 years. She has a real passion for advocating for better mental health care and services within the borough of Barnet, and wants to be part of the change. In addition to her work on the Healthwatch Barnet Advisory Board, Jenny is involved in speaking openly about the issues facing people with mental illness in the small business community as well as locally. 

Martin Quilter 

Martin is now retired - he was a manager of an electrical wholesale and retail company in Notting Hill. He had previously worked in the west end for a firm of chartered accountants then in the city for a large insurance company, before he had a career change and joined a large electrical wholesale company where he continued his career. He loved playing football and cricket, and played for over 50 years. Martin's wife unfortunately has MS that has now unfortunately progressed, so he is a carer for his wife. He sits on Barnet Council's Involvement Board as a Carer representative, and on the Young Carers and Carers Board. 

Martin is a trustee for the Old Camdenians Club, an alumni group for his old school - the club has provided school uniforms, sports equipment and over 100 iPads to pupils with limited access to these resources. Martin joined the Healthwatch Advisory Board to help improve healthcare in Barnet for everyone.

Richard Strong 

Richard has recently retired from running a global clinical software business, following a long-term career in Healthcare and Healthcare IT. Richard started his career working in NHS pathology laboratories and then moved to specialise in healthcare IT and consulting, with experience of healthcare in many countries around the world. Richard holds an MSc in Intelligent Systems and is a Fellow of the Institute of Biomedical Science.

Following recent experience with the challenges navigating local healthcare services, Richard is passionate about ensuring the right services are available, are well coordinated and can be easily accessed by everyone.

 

Healthwatch Barnet Advisory Board - Terms of Reference

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Code of Conduct

Healthwatch Barnet has a duty to protect the name, brand and reputation of Healthwatch and Inclusion Barnet. The purpose of this Code of Conduct is to set the standards of behaviour expected from all Board Members. The following Code of Conduct will be actively monitored and if a Board Member is not complying they may be required to step down.

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Code of Conduct - Easy Read Version
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Minutes of our Advisory Board meetings

Download and read the minutes from our Advisory Board meetings.

Healthwatch Barnet Advisory Board - Minutes meeting held 17 February
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Healthwatch Barnet Advisory Board - Minutes meeting held 14 November
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Healthwatch Barnet Advisory Board - Minutes meeting held 30 July
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