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Find out what support is available to help you travel to your hospital appointments. -
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Find out what support is available to help you when travelling to your GP, hospital or other NHS services. -
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The purpose of this work was to find out what people understood by the term 'ambulatory care' and what they thought of the service it provided. -
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This report into the term ambulatory care finds out if the public understand the term, how we could better describe it, the pros and cons to the idea including whether people actually supported the idea of a home / virtual ward.
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We conducted this project to find out peoples experiences with relation to the ophthalmology department. Focusing on how patients were managing with access to appointments, waiting times and the quality of service.
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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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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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We worked with Healthwatch Wigan and Leigh to promote an online survey to gather expert by experiences, views and comments regarding Bolton council's proposed changes to its wheelchair eligibility criteria. -
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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. -
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As part of the ongoing work with the Bolton Engagement Alliance, this report focuses on understanding views on existing services in the local area, explore what services are needed and issues with distance and willingness to travel to services. -
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Here you will find many sources of useful information and advice -
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The report, Discharge to Assess: 590 people’s stories, explores the impact the new processes have had since their introduction in March to help manage the sudden rise in COVID-19 patients. -
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Together with the national report - People's Experiences of Hospital Discharge during Covid 19, there are also some local findings from staff interviews in Bolton -
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The top three health and care priorities you asked us to look at this year are: Primary Care, Secondary Care, and Adult Mental Health. See the report for more detail -
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Earlier this year we asked people to tell us about their experience of waiting for hospital treatment. Covid 19 has placed a huge strain on the NHS and social care and has created a backlog of patients needing treatment at a hospital. -
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Have a read of our latest annual report for 2021-22- Championing What Matters to You -
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We asked you to tell us about your experiences of having either a telephone or a video appointment with a health care professional -
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One of our long-serving trustees of Healthwatch Bolton sadly passed away in June 2023. -
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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.
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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 -
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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 -
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Read our quarterly intelligence reports. The reports contain feedback that the public has shared with us. The feedback is then shared with commissioners and providers of health and care services to help bring improvements to services. -
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A report produced in August 2019 containing information about health and support in the workplace. -
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A report published in March 2019 containing information on how we should communicate with people. -
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As part of our aim to improve understanding of the role of Technology Enabled Care (TEC) we invited members of the public were invited to view and see demonstrations of electronic monitoring devices, disability/care aids and health related apps. -
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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. -
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The Impact of Bereavement During Covid 19 -
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We have been working with Bolton GP Federation and Answer Cancer to bring cervical screening into communities in Bolton starting in Rumworth. The project aims to encourage people particularly from ethnically diverse backgrounds to have a smear test. -
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Our annual report for 2022-23 is now available -
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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. -
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Bolton Safeguarding Adults Board are committed to continuous improvement, learning from experience, and enabling adults at risk of neglect and abuse to have a voice. -
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Healthwatch in Greater Manchester are interested in hearing from children and young people, and parents and carers, about their experiences of the pathway to accessing (or trying to access) CAMHS.
The project aim is to establish whether the current mental health care pathway is effective in identifying and helping children and young people (CYP) to access the support they need in a timely and effective way, which leads to positive outcomes for themselves, their families or carers.
We would like to hear from those having accessed this service for all conditions, including those who may have accessed the Autism/ADHD diagnostic pathways. There are two surveys, one for children and young people, and one for parents and carers
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Read our new report - Menopause and Me, outlining the experiences of people looking for support and information -
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A year ago the Accessible Information Standard came into force. It requires any organisation providing NHS or social care to communicate in a way that everybody can understand. Here's a reminder of what you should expect.