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NHS North West London has published their quarterly community insights report.

NHS North West London has launched a review of the community services that are in place to support the frail population.

NHS North West London, supported by Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust, ran a consultation from October 2023 to February 2024, on the future of acute mental health services in Westminster and Kensington & Chelsea following the temporary closure of the inpatient wards at the Gordon Hospital. There was significant engagement in the consultation with over 700 individual responses.

Vaccination is a high priority action for the NHS, to protect people from serious illness and to support NHS and adult social care resilience.

In 2023 Healthwatch Ealing launched a new project looking to better understand thoughts of feelings of young people in NWL regarding vaccines. By talking directly to young people and their parents Healthwatch hoped to gain an understanding of how the pandemic impacted their views on immunisations.

The Ealing Health and Wellbeing Board have a statutory duty to publish a Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment every three years, under the NHS (Pharmaceutical Services and Local Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 2013.

The information presented within this report reflects the individual patient experience of health and social care services, untainted and without agenda to ensure that the genuine observations and commentaries of the community are captured. Healthwatch Ealing presents this as factual information to be considered and utilised to improve service provision and highlight areas of good practice.

Our Enter and View visits are arranged to find out how health and social care services are being run, and make recommendations where there are areas for improvement.

An annual assessment from NHS England has recognised that NHS North West London is performing well against national objectives set for all integrated care boards (ICBs).

The information presented within this report reflects the individual patient experience of health and social care services, untainted and without agenda to ensure that the genuine observations and commentaries of the community are captured. Healthwatch Ealing presents this as factual information to be considered and utilised to improve service provision and highlight areas of good practice.

Our annual report of 2023-24 summarises our patient experience findings, enter and view findings and our plans for the upcoming year 2024-25.