Our vision is:

To commission and provide excellent health services that are built around the patient, and to develop and deliver effective community based approaches to keeping people healthy.

Here’s how we’ll achieve our vision:

More prevention of diseases, providing you with support to live more healthily, both to stop you becoming ill and to help prevent your condition getting worse if you are not well.

Higher quality services which are more clinically and cost effective, providing you with safe and equitable healthcare that meets and exceeds nationally set quality standards.

More convenient services, provided more quickly and at a time that is right for you. Services will be as local as possible, and as specialist as needed. We hope that you’ll be involved in developing them with us.

Better co-ordinated care, with improved sharing of information and working together between different parts of the health service and partner organisations. This will mean a smoother, faster and more joined up journey for you.

Better information for you about your health and living with ill health, about accessing the right health services when you need them and about making informed choices about your treatment.

Click here to view or download a copy of “Better Health for Bolton”, our manifesto for 2006 – 2009.