News and reports

People have told us they can have problems registering with a GP. This article explains more about your rights and what do to if you are refused the right to register.

Read our report following our visit to Rivington View. We talked to staff and residents about the home as well as observing practices throughout the day. Our report contains our full findings and the recommendations we made.

A report published in March 2019 containing information on how we should communicate with people.

This work builds on the neighbourhood reports and responds to need for co-design of primary care services and community interest in respect of understanding of new primary care models and access arrangements for the new practitioners.

As part of their new Home Care Quality Improvement Programme Bolton Local Authority have worked with some representatives of home care services to try to understand why relationships between service providers and clients are sometimes difficult.

read our report from our visit to Hollands nursing home, where we spoke to staff and residents as well as recording our own observations. Our report contains details of all our findings as well as any recommendations we made.

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.