1. Health Visiting Service

    Report -

    We engaged with families during 4 baby clinics during March & April. The purpose was to capture people's experience of the service and other more general health or social care services and to identify examples of good practice.

  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. 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.

  4. Thinking and Talking about Palliative Care

    Report -

    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.

  5. Co-designed information resource for home care customers

    Report -

    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.

  6. Local Information and Helplines

    Advice and Information -

    Here you will find many sources of useful information and advice

  7. People's Experience of Hospital Discharge - Staff Interviews Bolton findings

    Report -

    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

  8. 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.

  9. Bolton Safeguarding Adults Board - Annual Report 2022 - 2023

    Report -

    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.

  10. What should you expect from home care services?

    Advice and Information -

    The number of people being cared for in their own homes is increasing but what should you expect from home care services?

  11. Annual Report 2018/2019

    Report -

    Find out what we got up to last year!

  12. Patients views of Autism services

    Report -

    We carried out engagement work with the community to find out about Autism services and how we could put forward recommendations to influence the prospectus for Greater Manchester Health and Socail Care Partnership over the next 5 years.

  13. Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) Survey

    Advice and Information -

    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

  14. Cervical Cancer Screening Survey

    Report -

    Over 1500 people shared their views and experiences of cervical cancer screening. 200 cancer champions have been recruited and we have made recommendations on information, accessibilty, language and literature. The full report will be available soon!