Bolton Neighbourhood Engagement - Chorley Roads
Summary:
We collected 329 responses from 23 respondents and the key findings are as follows:
- There were 89 mentions of local assets although some felt there was no system in place to support these.
- There is an overwhelming desire by residents to draw on existing assets to help manage their health and well-being, however they felt local services were not able to meet there concerns around access leaving many feeling dis-empowered and excluded.
- Residents welcomed the new primary care roles and felt these would help ease pressures on other provisions.
- In order for residents to support and trust local services more visibility in the community was suggested.
- There should be a shift to working more as a partnership with local services to foster ownership and participation.
- There is enthusiasm from residents to take more control over their own health and well-being.
- More focus on joined up provisions.
Conclusions:
Residents appeared to have a good awareness of their local assets and an intuitive understanding of an asset based approach. Sometimes however, they felt that services were disjointed and not working well together.
Residents were keen to take more control over their own health and well-being and welcomed the new primary care roles to aid this process in addition to suggesting alternative and improved ways of working to help encourage community participation. It should be noted however that residents felt that increased support from the local authority with an emphasis on joined up working was required to bring this to fruition.
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