News and reports

Exploring the understanding from the voluntary sector of the new primary care roles, how the voluntary sector link to these roles and potential barriers to accessing the new primary care roles.

This new report responds to two findings in the neighbourhood study:
o A need for co-design in the remodelling of primary care services.
o Community interest and understanding

This report presents the comments from Jubilee Centre users. These groups include staff, service users & their carers, and local residents. This engagement explored the service users views across the two sites.

Bolton GP Federation took over Shanti Medical Centre in Daubhill, Bolton in late July 2018. The GP Federation wanted to engage with the patients registered at the practice on
patient preferences with regards to the practical aspects of running it.

The purpose of this research is to investigate what would encourage/discourage people when considering independent living options for themselves or for loved ones. We asked a number of questions about environment, amenities and support that will help

The Engagement Alliance team (Healthwatch Bolton and Bolton CVS) embarked on public engagement work within Neighbourhoods that woulddevelop continous engagement across the neighbourhood.

This piece of work aimed to explore how far Bolton has come in terms of embedding co-design, how useful the group feels, to what extent the group feel they are meeting their objectives and how members feel their work can continue in the long term

Health issues unfortunately don't leave us alone at the weekend and people are often in need of medical assistance out of hours. Using NHS guidelines, we have provided some advice and information on where you can go for help when your GP is closed.

Read our report following our visit to Sepnnymore. We observed practices during the time that we were there along with talking to both the staff and residents. Our report contains our full findings and recommendations made following our visit.

Read our findings from our Enter and View visit to Abafields care home, where we talk to both staff and residents about the service provided.

We looked at what makes carer friendly experiences. This report highlights which areas carers feel they face the most challenges with and where they feel most / least supported across housing, care and support, education, work and community sectors

Our report will enable those with experience of palliative and end of life care as well as the general public to share their experiences, thoughts, knowledge, and desire’s and inform best practice for all providers.