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At this meeting, the Board received information about current activities, concerns and finance.

Streaming and Urgent Treatment, Emergency Department and Ambulance Receiving Centre.

At the end of September 2022, Healthwatch Havering carried out an Enter and View visit to the Accident and Emergency (A&E) Services at Queen's Hospital, Romford.

A defibrillator is a machine that is used to restart someone's heart when they are suffering from cardiac arrest.

Defibrillators are increasingly available, including at railway stations, sports centres, supermarkets, and other public places.

Healthwatch Havering, with other Healthwatch and the NHS in North East London have worked to find out what changes are needed in the Local Maternity and Neonatal System to improve the service, especially for minorities and deprived communities.

Last year, the Havering Safeguarding Adults Board asked us to find out what local people understand about safeguarding and its implications.

We have now completed another survey - see below..

At this meeting, the Board received information about current activities, concerns and finance.

Please note that the next Board meeting will be held on 17 January 2023 as the Board will not be meeting in December.

At this meeting, Members noted that two individuals were nearing completion of training. The meeting was followed by an Extraordinary General Meeting at which the Annual Accounts were approved.

At this meeting, the Board received information about current activities, concerns and finance.

At this meeting, the Board received information about current activities, concerns and finance.

At this meeting, the Board received information about current activities, concerns and finance.

We have visited Abbcross Nursing Home to find out about the services provided there, and what service users and staff think about it.

We have carried out three visits; all of our reports are available below.

Over several months in 2021, at the request of the North East London CCG, we worked with all of the Healthwatch organisations covering North East London to find out how disabled people had coped during the Covid pandemic.