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This was an announced Enter and View visit as part of a planned strategy to look at a range of health and social care services within Barnet. Gadsbury Close is a sheltered housing unit run by Barnet Homes.

Healthwatch Barnet has commissioned Home Start Barnet to capture the views of young parents and families with young children, on their experience of how they access dental services. The parents of 96 young children completed 56 questionnaires, representing 56 families.

Healthwatch Barnet held our Annual Meeting at the Subud Centre in East Barnet on 13 October 2016, where we presented the Healthwatch Annual Report and summarised some of the work that the Healthwatch team of staff and volunteers have been undertaking in the last year. Thank you to all of those who attended and participated in this thought-provoking afternoon. We hope you enjoyed it.

After the original Enter and View visit to Suffolk Ward at Chase Farm Hospital in March 2015, Healthwatch Enfield and Healthwatch Barnet, returned to Suffolk Ward, in June 2016, to follow up the observations and recommendations made after their first visit.

This was an un-announced E&V visit as part of a planned strategy to look at a range of care and nursing homes within Barnet to obtain a better idea of the quality of care provided. This visit was undertaken to review the recommendations the Team made at the previous visit.