News and reports

This report aims to see to what extent GP practices are providing clear and consistent information in an easy to access format, and to highlight any areas of good practice to inform local communication strategies.

Wo engage with people about neighbourhood level health services, comparing results with our 2017 Farnworth Neighbourhood Hubs study. To gather views and ideas about what would improve the experience of accessing future health and wellbeing services.

Read our annual report to find out how we have made an impact in Bolton over the last year.

Read our Enter and View report from Blackrod House Residential Care Home. We spoke to staff and residents to assess the service that was being provided and this report contains our findings and our recommendations for improvement.

Read our Enter and View report from our visit to Beechville care home. We spoke to residents and staff about the service and observed the running of the day. Our report inlcudes our full findings and our recommendations.

In Bolton, no other engagement activity has taken place with the public on the subject of LCO’s and so patients views on how a good Local Care Organisation would shape up were not known. We undertook engagement work to find out their views.

A questionnaire was developed by Healthwatch Oldham and built on work done by some Greater Manchester LINks who had looked at patient transport in previous years. Nine local Healthwatch undertook the durvey as a joint piece of work.

This report is part of a project commissioned from Healthwatch Bolton by Bolton GP Federation. The work took place at various sites in the Chorley Roads area.

Our proposal was to work with staff from ‘NHS Business Services, employees used allocated annual volunteering time to gather interview responses from their colleagues covering views on working well on local services, workplace health and dentistry.

This project was to inspire people to get involved with local discussions and consultations about the future of health care and to ensure that those who do get involved are wellinformed about what works and why.

Our engagement officers spoke to people at a local dementia café to gain comments, experiences and views on the topic of dementia.

The aim of this project was to gain a greater understanding of the support, experience and impact itself for individuals at various points including: the situation itself, diagnosis, on services, end of care and any other issues.