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Take a look at the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence's (NICE) quick guide to discussing and planning support following a dementia diagnosis. -
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We looked at what makes carer friendly experiences. This report highlights which areas carers feel they face the most challenges with and where they feel most / least supported across housing, care and support, education, work and community sectors -
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We carried out a piece of work surrounding the issues of loneliness and isolation throughout 2018 and 2019. This report summarises the findings of our survey into loneliness and isolations felt by carers. -
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This forum was based on the work by Healthwatch, which featured views on health by employees at a local organisation. 20 individuals attended the forum which included members of the general public as well as representatives from various organisations -
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In this report we highlight our findings regarding what people understand the health and care concerns are faced by those in work. For the purposes of this study we focused on workers at a single, large office site in Bolton. -
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A report produced in August 2019 containing information about health and support in the workplace. -
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Our report will enable those with experience of palliative and end of life care as well as the general public to share their experiences, thoughts, knowledge, and desire’s and inform best practice for all providers. -
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We have been looking to identify young carers find out more about their experiences. This report highlights their views on their experiences, self-identification and support needs. -
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This report highlights the current experiences of young carers, what technology they use and how benefical that technology is to their role as a young carer. -
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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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Have a read of our latest annual report for 2021-22- Championing What Matters to You -
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We explored the issues of loneliness and isolation amongst our many unpaid carers in the Bolton community. -
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Our annual report for 2022-23 is now available -
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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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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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Find out what we got up to last year! -
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Health issues unfortunately don't leave us alone at the weekend and people are often in need of medical assistance out of hours. Using NHS guidelines, we have provided some advice and information on where you can go for help when your GP is closed. -
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Find out what support is available to help you travel to your hospital appointments. -
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End of life care is support for people who are in the last months or years of their life. The guidance on the NHS website helps you know what to expect, how to plan ahead and how to manage your day to day decisions. -
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Help make sure that your practice meets people’s accessibility requirements using this checklist from Healthwatch Slough. -
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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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We organised a forum to further explore people’s views on health related peer to peer support type activity. A number of organisations and groups who use this model were invited, along with the general public, to share their views and experiences. -
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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. -
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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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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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Our volunteer Rosie Adamson-Clark talks about what shielding is really like - this is her story -
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Thank you to everyone who took the time to complete our survey telling us how Covid 19 has been affecting your health and wellbeing. You also told us about some of the great things you have been doing that keeps you well. -
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Public Health, Greater Manchester Combined Authority and Bolton NHS have put together a booklet to support you with advice on looking after your mental health and accessing services during lockdown and has plenty of tips on beating anxiety. -
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Read our report following our visit to Rivington inpatient service. We spoke to staff and residents as well as observing practices throughout the day. Our report includes full details of all our findings including the recommendations we put forward -
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We are looking to find out how the crisis is affecting people's day to day lives and how they are managing to cope through COVID-19. -
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Find out where you can go to get a dentist appointment in Bolton, where to go for urgent dental care, how to make a complaint and how to share your experience. -
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We wanted to gather and analyse a comprehesive set of responses from people in Greater Manchester on some of the key topics in the NHS Long Term Plan. -
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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 -
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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. -
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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. -
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Wo engage with people about neighbourhood level health services, comparing results with our 2017 Farnworth Neighbourhood Hubs study. To gather views and ideas about what would improve the experience of accessing future health and wellbeing services. -
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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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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. -
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This report is part of a wider project to explore what patients think of ‘neighbourhood hubs’ and to gather views and ideas about what aspects of such a service would improve their experience of accessing health and wellbeing services. -
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The Engagement Alliance team (Healthwatch Bolton and Bolton CVS) embarked on public engagement work within Neighbourhoods that woulddevelop continous engagement across the neighbourhood. -
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A cancer support centre is continuing to help people living with cancer across Bolton during the latest lockdown by providing vital telephone and virtual support.