THE lockdown has had an enormous effect on the mental health of residents, and could do for years to come, according to mental health support groups in the borough. Referrals have soared over lockdown, with many people experiencing mental health problems for the first time, while others are experiencing complex problems which have returned amid lockdown. Statistics released over the pandemic from March last year have shown more people being referred to mental health teams due to many factors experienced during the pandemic. One group of people very much affected were frontline health workers. More than two in five staff at the Bolton Trust felt ill due to work-related stress as the coronavirus pandemic took hold last year, according to a survey.
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HEALTH bosses have set out how they are encouraging ‘hard to reach’ groups and Bolton’s black, Asian and minority ethnic communities to take up the offer of coronavirus vaccines. A board meeting of the borough’s clinical commissioning group heard that as of February 12 around 90 per cent of those over-70 registered with a GP in the town had received their first dose and that figure was more than 80 per cent for the clinically extremely vulnerable. But NHS Bolton has acknowledged ‘low confidence and trust in the vaccination within our BAME communities, has meant more of our communications are delivered by NHS clinical professionals and steered