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As the NHS continues its push towards online consultations, digital patient records and app-based access, Healthwatch Barnet and Croydon have been among the very few in the country to go beyond simply responding to national digital health policy by gathering direct evidence from patients about what digitisation means for them in practice.

The Liberal Democrats have urged the Prime Minister to stop the abolition of independent bodies in health and social care to ensure that modernising the NHS does not come at the expense of accountability, transparency or patient safety.

Haringey Community Collaborative took part in the WAVE for Change Toolkit.

The NHS in west and north London is asking residents how they'd like to be involved in decisions about local health and care services.

Across Haringey, Barnet, Croydon and Hounslow, four Healthwatch services, all delivered by Public Voice, have spent the past year reaching into communities whose experiences of health and social care are too often missing from the data that shapes local services.

The early impact of the Healthy Neighbourhoods Challenge Fund.

A successful collaboration between Cancer Community Links (CCL) and Haringey Advice Partnership (HAP) is helping to improve cancer awareness and provide holistic support to residents in some of Tottenham’s most deprived communities.

Older residents in Haringey took centre stage at a vibrant fashion show in Tottenham Green as part of this year’s Age Without Limits Day celebrations.

Residents across Enfield, Haringey and Hackney are being invited to help design the future of accessible community transport through a series of free co-design workshops launching this year.

The Patients Association is inviting people who have received support through social prescribing services to take part in a new national survey being conducted in partnership with the National Academy for Social Prescribing (NASP).