News and reports

Read our Enter and View report to discover what we found when we visited Darley Court. We spoke to staff and residents and observed the running of the home across the course of the day. Our report contains our findings and recommendations.

This report highlights the publics views on waste around medicines and the way they are dispensed, peoples knowledge of the minor aliments service and the publics knowledge around pharmicies and the services they offer.

We visited St Catherines to observe their practices and talk to their staff and residents. Our report contains our full findings and our recommendations that were made following on from our visit.

Read our annual report to find out the differences we have been making in Bolton. Learn how we have helped people, how we have improved services and how our volunteers have been involved with our work.

We engaged with families during 4 baby clinics during March & April. The purpose was to capture people's experience of the service and other more general health or social care services and to identify examples of good practice.

Read our report on our visit to Meadowbank House, where we spoke to staff and residents as well as observing practices throughout the day. This report details all our findings together with the recommendations we put forward.

Read our full report on our visit to Hyde Lea care home. We spoke to staff and residents as well as observing practices throughout the day. Our report contains the details of our findings together with our recommendations.

Read our report detailing our findings and recommendations for improvement from our visit to Greenlands Residental Home. We were able to talk to staff and residents as well as record our own observations to get a full overview of the residentail home

This report follows on from our 2014 report which instigated meetings both locally and nationally with oral health professionals. In our report we highlight the responses from local care homes about the level of oral care available to residents.

Healthwatch conduct regular corridor events at various Bolton FT NHS services. This report covers the comments received when visiting the Rivington Unit.

This report is based on our volunteer’s experience of Bolton hospital. As a wheelchair user we asked if they would like to help us identify if there were any areas of concerns with regards to access or remit that were not following regulations.

Read our annual report detailing the differences we have made to people and services across the last year.