News and reports

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.

Read our report on our visit to Meadowbank House, where we spoke to staff and residents as well as observing practices throughout the day. This report details all our findings together with the recommendations we put forward.

Read our full report on our visit to Hyde Lea care home. We spoke to staff and residents as well as observing practices throughout the day. Our report contains the details of our findings together with our recommendations.

Read our report detailing our findings and recommendations for improvement from our visit to Greenlands Residental Home. We were able to talk to staff and residents as well as record our own observations to get a full overview of the residentail home

This report follows on from our 2014 report which instigated meetings both locally and nationally with oral health professionals. In our report we highlight the responses from local care homes about the level of oral care available to residents.

Healthwatch conduct regular corridor events at various Bolton FT NHS services. This report covers the comments received when visiting the Rivington Unit.

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.

Read our annual report detailing the differences we have made to people and services across the last year.

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.

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.