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This project aimed to help inform how the primary care workforce chould be structured and the future use of technologies to help support communication. We asked people for thier views on their preferred methods of communication and why.

The Bolton GP Federation asked Healthwatch to develop and deliver a small piece of public engagement to gather patient’s views and ideas about what aspects of such a service would improve their experience of accessing health and well-being services.

Changes were made to eligibility criteria for podiatry services in Bolton. Following thise a number of comments were made to us. This report presents these views to illustrate how service changes can affect patients.

We collected peoples views on the adapability of an electronic care record through an open survey available to the people of Bolton. This report highlights our findings and our recommendations based on the people's views.

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Read our report from our visit to Woodlands. We visited to talk to staff and residents about the service as well as to observe practices throughout the time we were there. Our report contains full details of our findings and recommendations

Read our Enter and View report to find out what we learnt when we visited The Four Seasons Care Home. We spoke to staff and residents as well as recording our own observations which has led to us making some recommendations.

Researches visited various sites where men attend on a social basis and conducted semi-structured interviews. Conversations focused onl views on service delivery, healthy lifestyles, mental health and health information.

Read our report from our visit to Withins. We spoke to staff and residents as well as observing practices whilst we were there. Our report contains our full findings and a copy of the recommendations we put forward following our visit.

This project engaged with younger people around their experiences of emotional health and well-being. This report highlights the difficulties that young people may face due to poor emotional health and well-being.

We are doing thematic research on the subject of men’s health. As part of this work we visited the Bolton Service User Recovery Forum (BSURF) which is a peer support group to get experiences and view of the support they receieved from their GP.

Read our yearly report to find up what we have been up to, how we have been helping people and how we have helped improve services over the last year