Minna Korjonen (Chair)
Minna, our Board Chair, is an experienced public representative who has held many roles as a member, vice chair, and chair at committees and boards within different organisations, both locally and nationally.
She is serving on several NHS committees and boards, including as Chair of the MSK Services PPG, the NHS National Same Day Emergency Policy and Quality Marking Group, Dental Review committee, as Governor of NHS Trust NWL, and member of the Learning Disabilities Partnership Steering Board and End-of-Life Care Partnership Steering Board. She is also serves as a member of the Council of Governors Nominations and Remuneration Committee, and as Peer Leader for the NHS National Peer Leadership Network.
Through these commitments, Minna has formed strong relationships with stakeholders and decisionmakers. She has actively shared her professional network and connections over the years, connecting Healthwatch with hard-to-reach communities, local groups, and a wider network on a national level.
“As the Healthwatch Advisory Board, we work positively and constructively to support the Healthwatch Team’s strategy and research initiatives. It is vital that we all share our skills, experiences, and concerns, bring a collective voice within our communities to the Advisory Board. Doing so, it enables us to make changes that are needed to our residents using health and social care services”.
Jill Brown (Vice Chair)
Jill is a resident of North Kensington and has been a member of the Healthwatch RBKC Advisory Board since its inception. Alongside serving as our Vice Chair in Kensington & Chelsea, she has has previously acted as Interim Chair for the Healthwatch Advisory Board in Westminster. She brings a wealth of experience as a local volunteer, serving her community and assisting residents who have disabilities and other medical conditions.
She is the founder of the voluntary project CHUMS (“Care, Help, Unite, Meet, Support”), which is set to tackle the isolation of lone elderly, vulnerable, disabled and digitally excluded residents of Kensington & Chelsea.
Jill’s work has informed her awareness of health issues and gaps that local communities face, and she has worked as an advocate to remedy these gaps since late 2019. As a Healthwatch Advisory Board member, she ensures that the voices of those struggling with accessing and using health and social care services are brought to the table, and considered carefully when setting our priorities - whether it relates to GP clinics, social care, hospital services or any other area of work.
“Healthwatch aims to give people and communities a stronger voice to influence and challenge how health and social care services are provided within their locality. It is vital that those of us who have experiences and knowledge of local health and social care concerns, help us bring such information to Healthwatch.”
Gaenor Holland-Williams
As an Advisory Board member and Enter & View representative with extensive experience in health and social care, Gaenor brings a wealth of expertise to the work of Healthwatch Kensington & Chelsea.
She has worked across our previous contract as Healthwatch Central West London, and has been a member of our Board since its inception.
She has had experience working in housing for Southwark, Brent, and Hackney councils, and has been awarded a Life Membership by the British Social Work Association. She is currently engaged with the Kensington & Chelsea Tenant Consultative Committee, contributing to scrutiny reports and carrying out consulting work on issues pertaining to residential concerns.
Gaenor is also currently sitting as a member on the Royal Marsden Cancer Hospital Quality & Patient Experience Committee, which feeds into the Hospital Board. Throughout her tenure, she has contributed to the works of their Equality, Diversity, & Inclusion Group and their Public Partners Group, producing resources on engagement with different faith groups and people with Learning Disabilities.
Victoria Borwick
Victoria has lived in London all her life and has served as a Councillor, Assembly Member, and MP. During her time on the London Assembly, she also worked on the London Health Commission, a Cross Party group examining ways to improve the NHS and service provision in London. She is also a Governor at Guys & St Thomas’s, having previously been a governor at the Brompton Hospital, which has now been taken over by the Guys & St Thomas’s team.
She has four children and sadly two of them have spent a long time being helped by the NHS, as one of them is disabled.
"Healthwatch plays a vital role in scrutinizing health provision for local residents, and I enjoy taking part in the visits and research and seeing service delivery first hand".
Heena Bellara
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Abderrahman El-Guerbozi
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Margaret Cairns Irven
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Our Board papers
We make the papers for our public Board meetings available online. We also publish the meeting minutes, which give a summary of what was discussed. You can download these here.