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Last week I reported on a very well attended meeting on 15th August in opposition to proposed cutbacks in the availability of procedures on the NHS (the so-called Adherence to Evidence-Based Medicine process). I've now received a much more detailed account of the meeting, written by Frances Warboys of Defend Enfield NHS. As well as providing more information about what was said, it shows the value of being able to take shorthand notes!
Note: The article was edited on 24th.......
150 people turned out for Tuesday's meeting at the Beaumont - you had to be early to get a seatEnfield residents at a meeting this week called on NHS commissioners in the borough to withdraw proposed new restrictions on the provision of knee replacements, hearing aids, breast reconstruction, hernia operations and several other medical procedures. Speakers at the meeting queried the "evidence base" for the proposals and expressed the view that the cumulative "deficit".......
Enfield Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) are seeking volunteers to help them develop new requirements for musculoskeletal, urology and gynaecology services. The information below is taken from the CCG's website.
Enfield CCG is working with the Royal Free Hospital to develop a new set of pathways and service specification for Integrated Musculoskeletal Services, Urology and Gynaecology servicesWe are planning a series of meetings from September which will be clinically led to.......
Come to the Forum meeting at Beaumont Care Home, Cannon Hill, Southgate, Tuesday 15 August, 10am for 10.30 start. It is almost opposite the Cherry Tree pub.
Our Enfield NHS Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) - the people who decide if, when and how we are treated for medical problems - plan to save money by forcing all patients to wait longer for medical attention.
Of all the CCGs in London, Enfield has been selected as the trail-blazer, the pace-setter, for what the local health bosses call.......
Enfield Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) has decided to continue funding three "primary care access hubs" but not to commission a fourth hub to serve the north east of the borough. The hubs, which can be used by any patient registered at a practice in Enfield, provide GP services between 6.30pm and 8pm on weekdays and between 8am and 8pm at weekends.
Because weekday evening appointments have proved the most popular, the CCG is arranging to switch some appointments from Sundays to.......
In response to my report on the meeting at Park Lodge Medical Centre about its planned closure later this year, a reader from Grange Park has asked me to publish a copy of a letter she wrote to one of the partners at Winchmore Hill Practice.
NHS wellwishers were up bright and early (6 am) on 5th July to celebrate the 69th birthday of the National Health Service as staff streamed into Barnet Hospital for the morning shift.
Healthwatch Enfield has written to Enfield Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) recommending that the CCG suspend any decision making regarding increasing thresholds for access to certain medical procedures.
The letter, sent last week and published on the Healthwatch Enfield website, summarises the feedback gathered at the various consultation meetings that it organised to discuss the CCG's proposals concerning "Application of Evidence Based Medicine" (see earlier reporting on Palmers Green.......
The chairs of four out of five Healthwatch bodies in North Central London, including the chair of Healthwatch Enfield, have written a strongly worded letter to the Secretary of State for Health complaining about the scale of cuts to local NHS services being planned and the secrecy with which the planning work is being carried out. They say that they consider the proposed cuts a "threat to patient safety". In fact, they believe that patient safety in their boroughs is already being.......