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    This report is based on a corridor event where we aimed to ask patients what factors they take into consideration when choosing to use the out of hours service and to elicit the views of patients about their experiences of using the service.
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    Over the last year we have received a lot of feedback about dentistry, so this report highlights the responses we recevied when talking to the public. We heard the examples of good practice as well as the areas creating most problems for patients.
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    Read our annual report detailing the differences we have made to people and services across the last year.
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    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.
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    Healthwatch conduct regular corridor events at various Bolton FT NHS services. This report covers the comments received when visiting the Rivington Unit.
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    We invited public and professionals to gather people’s experiences on Dementia, looking at different stages including: prior to diagnosis, diagnosis and the short time following this, living with dementia and deterioration and end of life care.
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    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.
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    Our engagement officers spoke to people at a local dementia café to gain comments, experiences and views on the topic of dementia.
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    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.
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    Volunteers play a vital role in helping people have their say on health and social care. We have two roles at the moment: Trustee or Community Engagement volunteer
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.