Issue - meetings

Rikki Garcia, Interim CEO Healthwatch Enfield.

This is a partnership project funded by NCL ICB that has engaged Edmonton residents in innovative ways to identify issues and solutions with local services.

RECEIVED the report, presented by Rikki Garcia, CEO of Listen to Act / Healthwatch Enfield contract holder.

NOTED

1.    The Community Powered Edmonton partnership worked across three organisations – New Local, Edmonton Community Partnership, and Healthwatch Enfield – to reach out to communities in Edmonton about their issues affecting health and wellbeing.

2.    The key issues found were safety, poverty, social isolation, mental health, language barriers and lack of knowledge and confidence, and digital exclusion.

3.    A summary of findings and recommendations had been drawn up, and were set out on page 22 and 23 of the report. The five recommendations had clear consensus and were considered the most urgent and most readily actionable. They were being shared with key strategic bodies.

IN RESPONSE

4.    Board members welcomed the valuable and helpful report.

5.    The importance of availability of information at the first point of contact and easy accessibility was highlighted.

6.    Board members would discuss taking the recommendations forward and potential liaison with Enfield Borough Partnership and its working groups with Rikki outside this meeting.