1. Mental Health Support for Young People

    Report -

    We runs a series of corridor events at Royal Bolton Foundation Trust Hospital sites talking to patients about their views and experiences. This report highlights the comments we received from young people about mental health support.

  2. Home Care

    Report -

    Bolton LA are in the stages of re-tendering the home care provision and we therefore wanted to bring some service user experience to inform this process. This report highlights peoples experiences in quality monitoring and the incentives processes.

  3. Glenbank Care Home Enter and View

    Report -

    Read the report from our Enter and View at Glenbank care home. We spoke to staff and residents and made our own observations which has led to some interesting findings and some recommendations for improvement.

  4. Knightswood care home Enter and View

    Report -

    Read our full report on our visit to Knightswood care home. We spoke to staff and residents as well as observing practices throughout the day before writing our report which includes our full findings and recommendations.

  5. Rivington View Enter and View visit

    Report -

    Read our report following our visit to observe the practices at Rivington View. We spoke to both staff and residents and this report contains our full findings and observations together with the recommendations we put forward following our visit

  6. Annual report 2015-2016

    Report -

    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

  7. Experiences of GP support from people with histories of addiction

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    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.

  8. Emotional Health and Well-being of Year 7 Students in a Bolton High School

    Report -

    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.

  9. Withins residential home Enter and View

    Report -

    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.

  10. Men's Health and Well-being

    Report -

    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.

  11. Four Seasons Enter and View

    Report -

    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.

  12. Woodlands care home Enter and View

    Report -

    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

  13. 10 top tips to get the most out of your dental appointment

    Advice and Information -

    Everyone should be able to access good quality NHS dental services. Take a look at our top tips to help you get the most out of your next dental appointment.

  14. Bolton Electronic Shared Care Record

    Report -

    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.

  15. Podiatry Snapshot

    Report -

    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.

  16. Towards A Set Of Patient Experience Outcomes

    Report -

    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.

  17. Who Are You Seeing Today

    Report -

    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.

  18. Primary Care - Enhanced Access Arrangements

    Report -

    This report contains feedback from the public about preferences for primary care extended provision in Bolton

  19. Bolton Adult Safeguarding Board Annual Report

    Report -

    The Care Act 2014, makes a safeguarding adults board a statutory requirement. 

  20. Access to NHS Dentistry & Health and Wellbeing

    Report -

    Access to NHS Dentistry is problematic in Bolton and is affecting the health and wellbeing of people unable to access good dental care

  21. People's Perceptions of Virtual Health Care

    News -

    We asked you to tell us about your experiences of having either a telephone or a video appointment with a health care professional

  22. Annual Report 2022-23

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    Our annual report for 2022-23 is now available

  23. Remembering Jim Sherrington

    Advice and Information -

    One of our long-serving trustees of Healthwatch Bolton sadly passed away in June 2023.

  24. Greater Manchester Healthwatch Annual Report 2022-23

    News -

    Healthwatch in Greater Manchester publish its first Annual Report which highlights their activities over the past year and the impact the independent network has achieved.

  25. What do you know about Perimenopause and Menopause (Change of Life)?

    News -

    Many people have told us that they struggle to find information about the perimenopause and the menopause.

  26. NHS Workforce Plan

    News -

    Thousands of doctors, nurses, dentists and other healthcare staff will be trained in England every year as part of the first ever Long Term Workforce Plan published by the NHS and backed by the Government today.

  27. New report calls for fundamental reform of NHS dental care

    Advice and Information -

    A new report by MPs into dental care, which draws upon the experiences people have shared with us, has called for urgent reform so more people can access an NHS dentist.

  28. Cost of Living and Health and Wellbeing

    Advice and Information -

    Earlier this year we asked you to share your experiences with us on how the cost of living was affecting you health and wellbeing

  29. Smears Means Years

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    The Smears Means Years project has continued to be rolled out across Bolton, bringing life-saving cervical cancer screening opportunities into communities

  30. A British Sign Language Emergency First Aid Film - Learn CPR

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    The CPR (Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation) Community Network is a partnership between St John Ambulance and the NHS and is supported by Ambulance Trusts in England, The British Heart Foundation and Resuscitation Council UK.

  31. Junior Doctors Industrial Action Strikes

    Advice and Information -

    Junior doctors at some GP practices and all NHS hospitals are taking industrial action now. This will be the longest stretch of industrial action by junior doctors to date. This started at 7am on 3rd January 2024 and will conclude at 7am on 9th January 2024. See below information from Mark Fisher - Chief Executive of Greater Manchester Integrated Care Board