Bolton NHS Foundation Trust

We've loved looking back at the pictures of our 3 incredible Greater Manchester Health and Care Champion Awards winners! They've been sharing what the awards mean to them 🥰 ♻️ Green Initiative of the Year Award winner, the IV Therapy Team, said: 'We're immensely proud of our IV Therapy team for winning this award. The team have embraced the use of the elastomeric devices which improves patient safety and has many environmental advantages." 🎓 Learner of the Year Award winner, Nat Mulley, said: 'I'm very proud to be named Learner of the Year for the work I've done around ensuring patients who are hard of hearing and deaf receive good communication in their care." 🌞 Wellbeing Champion Award winner, Tyrone Roberts, said: "I was genuinely surprised when my name was called. The fact that people took the time to nominate me meant such a lot. It was a lovely evening and heart lifting to hear everyone's nominations."

Congratulations to our Critical Care Unit and District Nursing Services North for being awarded our first ever PLATINUM BoSCA certificates. It's the highest possible award 🤩 BoSCA helps us make sure we are working together to raise and sustain standards across the Trust.

It's time to walk and talk! 🚶♀️🥰 We're launching a brand new walk and talk group to support mums and parents with their mental health. ‘Steps of Support’ welcomes pregnant women, mums, partners and babies to take part in short walks around Bolton’s parks with the aim of bringing people together for conversation and to enjoy the outdoors. The first walk and talk is taking place on Monday 4 August, 10.30am – 12pm, in Moss Bank Park and will be led by the Specialist Mental Health Midwives from Royal Bolton Hospital. 📆 Monday 4 August 2025 🕥 10.30am – 12.30pm 📍 The Café at Moss Bank Park (parking, toilets and baby change available) 📧 stepsofsupport@boltonft.nhs.uk MORE INFO: https://lnkd.in/gTwbhwGE

✨ We've been recognised for our commitment to neurodiversity inclusion and offers of support for staff ✨ The Neurodiversity Inclusion and Support Group is a finalist at this year’s HPMA Excellence in People Awards, with the group’s work making the Browne Jacobson Award for Excellence in Employee Engagement shortlist. As part of our commitment to improving neurodiversity inclusion by creating a more supportive and understanding workplace for neurodivergent colleagues, a Neurodiversity Support Group was set up. Monthly meetings offer a safe space, resources and sensory aids; a popular “Neurodiversity in our workplace” toolkit; and a series of neurodiversity awareness training sessions. The winners will be announced at an awards ceremony in Birmingham on Tuesday 20 November. READ MORE: https://lnkd.in/eg9t8AbZ

Today was a significant next step in our development of Martha’s Rule at Bolton NHS Foundation Trust with our fantastic colleagues Michael Stead and Naomi Mather from Bolton Deaf Society. A true example of collaboration, expert insight, reduction of health inequity and working together for the benefits of our patients and community. So proud to be working alongside these amazing people and so thankful for the Bolton team today too, especially Claire Bailey, Anthony Mather and Mark Lamb. Can’t wait to share the results #MarthasRule

🎉 Happy Retirement, Liam Dunne! 🎉 After an incredible 26 years of dedicated service as a porter at Royal Bolton Hospital, Liam is hanging up his uniform and stepping into a well-earned retirement. Thank you, Liam, for your hard work and commitment to supporting patients and staff alike throughout the years. Wishing you all the best in this exciting new chapter! 🌟👏

The University of Manchester has given us a gold award for providing an ‘excellent standard’ to medical students who are on placement in Elderly Care and Microbiology. Students in the fifth year of their medical degree, who are asked to complete an evaluation of each placement they attend, provided an average score of 4.98 out of 5 for their experience at Royal Bolton Hospital. The good news continues, as the latest results from the University reveal the Trust received gold awards in a number of other areas, as well as silver and bronze. Our Medical Director, Dr Francis Andrews, said: “Medical placements are an important way to provide first-hand experience and for students to apply some of their learning to the real world." Congratulations to all of our consultants, resident doctors, wider teams and Medical Education for the fantastic work your deliver. READ MORE: https://lnkd.in/ePUBd_cv

We're sharing advice on the best ways to access NHS services in Bolton during upcoming strikes. Residents doctors will take part in industrial action from 7am on Friday 25 July until 7am on Wednesday 30 July. The strikes are set to have an impact to how healthcare services are provided. If patients have not heard of any changes to their appointment or procedure they are asked to still attend as they normally would. Please continue to come forward for urgent and emergency care! ▶️ Visit our website for what you need to know: https://lnkd.in/eXY_8tGt

This week we have another #FeedbackFriday shoutout to staff in our Elective Care Centre. ❤️ At Bolton we want every member of the team to feel supported to be the best they can be. Please let us know about your experience with our services and we will share this with the people involved in your care. You can leave your feedback by emailing thanks@boltonft.nhs.uk or by contacting our Patient Experience Team by telephone on 01204 390390.

Our annual Proud2bOps @ Bolton conference took place this week, spanning two days and focusing on building Quality Improvement (QI) skills for our operational leaders. Our Trust QI leads, Debbie Redfern and Joe Jones, delivered an engaging and interactive training session. They guided our leaders through identifying issues affecting patient care and quality using data, and then applying practical QI tools to develop effective solutions. Following the training, each division will launch a QI project to apply these new skills and implement tests for change aimed at enhancing patient care, quality, and overall experience. Michelle Cox, Director of Operations, said "It was great to see over 50 operational leaders from the organisation come together over the two days with such an enthusiastic approach to learning new skills. "We don't want the learning to end here and we will be meeting again in September to see the output from each division QI project and agree how we can implement their test for change wider"