Agenda item

Report of the Chair of Healthwatch.

Members noted that on 15 October Healthwatch City of London partnered with the City of London Social Care team to run an event for the Notice the Signs campaign – designed to encourage City residents and organisations to work together to keep children and adults safe. There were 30 attendees who met together for an informal afternoon discussions on noticing the potential signs of safeguarding issues. Attendees were able to spend time with social workers from both the children’s and adults’ team and were given the opportunity to ask questions and discuss any concerns following the presentations and case studies presented.

The incoming Chair Glyn Kyle was introduced to Members. Glyn Kyle would be replacing Sam Mauger as the representative for Healthwatch City of London at the Health and Wellbeing board meetings. Members placed on record their gratitude to Sam for all of her work both at Board meetings and development days and thanked her for all of her input.

Members noted that Healthwatch City of London had been in discussions with Barts Health NHS Trust to assist in communicating their work on the centralised appointments system for all outpatient bookings across their hospital sites and services. This was expected to take around four to six months to implement fully and we will keep residents updated on the progress of this in future newsletters.