News and reports | Healthwatch Islington

Transforming Mental Health Services in Camden and Islington

Camden and Islington Clinical Commissioning Groups are consulting on the proposed redevelopment of Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust‘s St Pancras Hospital site.

How you've made a difference to ADHD services

Islington's Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder service for adults is making more support available more quickly.

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Islington Patient Group June 2018 supporting materials

Find materials for this meeting of the Islington Patient Group.

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Urgent and emergency care in North London

Local Healthwatch from Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey and Islington organised surveys, focus groups and interviews to find out what people thought of existing services and to get ideas on how to make services better.

Accessible Information Standard

How do GP practices in Islington make their services accessible to patients with a communication support need?

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Meet Rose McDonald

Rose McDonald has been a volunteer for Healthwatch Islington since the organisation launched. She is also a member of our board of directors.

Long waits for appointments for community health services can affect health, say local residents

Healthwatch asked Islington residents using services like podiatry, physiotherapy, and district nursing to share their views about waiting times.

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How do our GP practices make their services accessible?

Our volunteers visited all the GP practices in the borough to get a sense of how easy it is for them to meet the Accessible Information Standard.

Community health services

We asked local residents using community health services like podiatry and physiotherapy whether they felt they were waiting a long time for an appointment. We wanted to learn whether that had any impact on their health.

Digital inclusion workshop

Helping local residents from refugee and migrant communities use their smartphones to stay healthy

An innovative partnership to improve wellbeing launched yesterday.

28 February 2018

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Support offered at GP practices for patients with autism

Mystery shoppers called GP practices posing as newly arrived Islington residents looking for a practice which could accommodate their child’s needs. They stated that their child had a diagnosis of autism.

What you've told us about the reablement service

We carried out phone interviews with 29 people to find out if they thought reablement had worked for them.

19 December 2017