News and reports

We carried out an Enter and View visit to Athenaeum care home – read our report below.

During 2023 we carried out 967 blood pressure checks at events across Barnet. Read our report about this project.

Throughout 2022/23, Healthwatch Barnet championed local residents' voices and advocated for improvements to services. Read our Annual Report to find out more.

We started our Men's Health project due to the growing need for a men's health strategy. Men have poorer outcomes across many health conditions and a low take up of primary care access.

Our Enter and View team visited Leecroft House.

2021/22 has been a tremendous year of growth in supporting local residents for Healthwatch Barnet. Read our Annual Report to find out how we have worked to champion people’s voices and support improvements in local services.

Through late winter and spring, we worked with NCL CCG to deliver a ‘Stay Well’ engagement and community campaign. Throughout the campaign, we gathered people’s experiences and concerns about local health. Our report details what you told us.

The five Healthwatch organisations across North Central London (Healthwatch Barnet, Healthwatch Camden, Healthwatch Enfield, Healthwatch Haringey, and Healthwatch Islington) have together produced a major report into Long COVID.

During October and November, Healthwatch Barnet visited five of Barnet’s public libraries in a series of community events to engage with local people about their experiences of health and social care. Find out what we learned.

For our new Snapshot Insight report we spoke to Barnet people about what they understand Advance Care Planning to mean, in order to help local GPs overcome the barriers stopping people accessing the many benefits of ACP.

Following publication of our report into the challenges deaf people face accessing their GP, Healthwatch Barnet ran follow-up focus groups on the experiences of deaf residents on access to more general health services.

Our Enter and View team visited Cedars Care Centre as part of a Virtual Visit Pilot.