Barnet Borough Partnership brings together local organisations that each play an important role in supporting the health and wellbeing of Barnet residents.
Partners include:
- London Borough of Barnet https://www.barnet.gov.uk/
- Barnet Federated GPs
- Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust (CLCH) https://clch.nhs.uk/
- Barnet Hospital (Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust) https://www.royalfree.nhs.uk/our-locations/barnet-hospital
- North London Foundation Trust https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/
- Whittington NHS Trust https://www.whittington.nhs.uk/
- Inclusion Barnet https://www.inclusionbarnet.org.uk/
- Young Barnet Foundation https://www.youngbarnetfoundation.org.uk/
- Age UK Barnet https://www.ageuk.org.uk/barnet/
- Healthwatch Barnet https://www.healthwatchbarnet.co.uk/
Barnet Neighbourhoods
Neighbourhood health is about local organisations working together to support people’s health and wellbeing closer to home. It focuses on prevention, early support and joined‑up care, especially for people with ongoing or complex needs.
In Barnet, services are organised into five neighbourhoods, helping partners tailor support to local communities and make care easier to access and better coordinated.
Barnet Integrator
What is the Integrator?
The Integrator function helps bring local health and care services together so that residents experience joined‑up, coordinated support. Working with councils, GPs, hospitals, community services and the voluntary sector, it focuses on improving how services work together across the borough.
In practice, the integrator function:
- Connects organisations so health and care services plan and deliver support together rather than in isolation
- Coordinates care around people and communities, especially those with complex or long‑term needs
- Supports neighbourhood and borough partnerships to design services based on local priorities
- Aligns resources and funding to reduce duplication and make best use of public money
- Drives improvement and change, using evidence and local insight to improve outcomes and reduce inequalities
- Acts as a single point of coordination, helping partners solve problems and move forward at pace
The overall aim is to make services simpler to navigate, more responsive to local needs, and better at supporting people to live healthier, more independent lives
Who is the Integrator in Barnet?
The Barnet Borough Partnership agreed for Barnet Federated GPs and Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust (CLCH) to work together as the joint Integrator to improve health and wellbeing for residents in Barnet.
This partnership is focused on making it easier for residents to get help locally, with services that work more closely together and understand the needs of each neighbourhood.
As joint integrator, we are focused on:
- Working together with residents and providers to deliver joined‑up support for people in their local area.
- Bringing health, care, community and voluntary groups closer together so residents get the right help sooner.
- Making services easier to access by offering more support closer to home.
About the Federation
Barnet Federated GPs is an organisation consisting of 48 general practices in the London Borough of Barnet covering over 400,000 patients. The company was first formed in November 2015 through the coming together of GP surgeries in all three localities within Barnet (North, South and West).
The Federation brings together GP practices in Barnet so we can work more closely and consistently for our patients. By working in this way, we support practices to share expertise, improve the way care is delivered, and make the best use of resources. Our aim is to help keep general practice strong and sustainable, so that patients continue to receive high‑quality, accessible care. Working together also allows us to design better services based on the needs of our local communities.
The Federation supports Primary Care Networks (PCNs) and provides services across the whole borough that individual practices would find difficult to deliver alone. This includes things like the community anticoagulation service, Serious Mental Illness physical health checks, remote GP services, and GP involvement in wider community and urgent care projects. The Federation also runs the Bridging Service, which offers GP appointments at hub sites across Barnet for all registered patients. By coordinating services across practices, we help ensure consistency, quality and improved access for all Barnet patients. We also represent primary care within wider health and care partnerships working alongside hospitals, social care, community services and the voluntary sector so that the voice of general practice is heard in planning services for local people.
