Your regular news update on health and social care in Barnet
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Welcome to the March issue of your Healthwatch Barnet newsletter
This month's newsletter is full of news and updates, including special events from our partners. Included in this issue:
- Introducing new Healthwatch Barnet Peer Communications Officer
- Men's health matters: we have finished our survey
- Core 20 Plus: upcoming events about Hypertension and meet our community connectors and what they do
- Enter and view update
- Past Events- we held an event at Stonegrove community centre as part of our Core 20 Plus project.
As always, you can get in touch by email or phone if you would like to share your views on health and social care in Barnet.
Introductions
We're delighted to introduce new Healthwatch Barnet Peer Communications Officer, Poppy Ingles-Oxley.She is looking forward to working with our friends, partners and volunteers!
Men's Health
We have finished our research on men's health, and we have received 250 responses. We will have a report at the end of march.
Enter and view
We have 2 enter and view reports, focusing on supported living that are being prepared for our website, so look out for that. We are also going to undertake another enter and view this month.
Core 20 Plus- latest event
Hypertension, or high blood pressure, is one of the biggest health issues of today. We began our Core 20 Plus project to combat Hypertension. To do this, we are running events so that individuals can learn about Hypertension and how to regularly check their blood pressure. We are, in partnership with Groundwork London, hosting an event on the 21st of March between 10:30am-12pm at Chartwell House, Edgeware. Find out more here
Our Community Connectors
Our events are ran by our Community Connectors, who educate the clients on Hypertension, test blood pressure and have information about how to test blood pressure regularly. Please note that our Community Connectors are not medically trained, so any advice given, is advice and not a diagnosis.
Core 20 Plus updates
We held a series of events at Stonegrove Community Centre and the event was a success, as we engaged 80 clients about Hypertension and reflected on the monitoring processes and improved.
