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AI-driven public conversation on social care set for autumn launch, council says

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Wednesday 18 June 2025

Thinktank Demos piloting £1m resident engagement programme expect to launch in borough in the autumn

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Elderly admissions to Royal Free more than double in two years

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 16 June 2025

Data shows trust saw largest spike in patients over-65 between 2022 and 2024, with number rising

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Council wants assurances from NHS as Royal Free maternity ward axed

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 27 March 2025

Camden’s health chief vows to to give residents a voice in future changes

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Camden adult social care deemed ‘outstanding’ by Care Quality Commission

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 28 February 2025

Chief inspector says CQC ‘very impressed to see exceptional levels of service’ as borough first in UK to be given new rating

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Care home staff refusing vaccinations as flu cases rise, council warns

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 10 January 2025

Director of health and wellbeing says it is planning to engage with more workers to boost jab uptake

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Cutting ‘appalling’ waits for autism diagnosis difficult, council admits

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 17 October 2024

Families are waiting 86 weeks on average for autism and ADHD diagnoses, report finds

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Camden Council announces extra £3.6m for health and social care

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 19 September 2024

Inflation uplift provides funds for new supported living and carers’ action plan

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Royal Free London and North Middlesex hospital trusts to merge by new year

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 13 September 2024

Bosses hope move will deliver benefits after both trusts were warned to improve

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Fears over ‘higher strength opioids’ in Camden as support services report ‘substantial increase’ in demand

By Maya Sall, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 12 July 2024

The borough’s new drug and alcohol service is helping more than 1,600 residents

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Camden Council wants to bring school meals service in-house by 2030

By Maya Sall, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 7 June 2024

Town Hall unveils what it hopes will be one last contract for a school meals provider before taking on the service itself

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Five GP surgeries in Camden earmarked for ‘change of ownership’

By Noora Mykkanen Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 2 February 2024

AT Medics Ltd, which runs the surgeries, insists proposals will not ‘change how we deliver primary care’

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Health bosses talk up plans to reduce eye surgery waiting lists in north London – but concerns raised over longer journeys for patients

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Tuesday 11 July 2023

Move designed to cut wait times by up to 10 weeks for some patients

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Great Ormond Street Hospital gets go-ahead for purpose-built cancer centre – but residents are not happy about ‘gross overdevelopment’

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 9 February 2023

Hospital chief executive says current facility is ‘not fit for purpose’

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‘Significant achievement’: Royal Free hits national waiting list target after clearing Covid backlog

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 28 July 2022

Hospital board’s chair says ‘the team has done an extraordinary job’

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‘Knocked down barriers’: Councillors and residents celebrate Camden’s £600k parks for health strategy

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 7 July 2022

The council has joined forces with user groups to encourage people to take advantage of their local green spaces

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‘Covid is rampant’, warns University College Hospital chief

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 24 March 2022

David Probert says rising infection rate is causing ‘great anxiety’, with teams being ‘knocked out’ by staff absences

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Children facing waits of up to 89 weeks for hospital dental treatment in north London – leaving politicians ‘horrified’

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 31 January 2022

One child has been waiting for over two years – as health bosses detail efforts to tackle pandemic backlog

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Camden in ‘extra sprint’ to vaccinate secondary school children

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 8 October 2021

Borough is hoping to turn around the low uptake among 12-15-year-olds this half term

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One in three Camden dentists unable to offer NHS appointments to children thanks to Covid backlog

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Wednesday 15 September 2021

Local health watchdog finds private appointments much easier to come by

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Surprise and concern over low number of council staff who have been double-jabbed

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Wednesday 1 September 2021

Cllr Alison Kelly suspects under-reporting is the problem, but said the numbers ‘need to go right up’

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