Support for your Healthwatch
We provide a range of support to help your Healthwatch run effectively. This covers topics including leadership and decision making, sustainability, influence, impact and much more!
Help from our team
- Running your Healthwatch: Contact your Regional Manager for advice on funding, anything that might affect your reputation or effective service delivery. Each Regional Manager also leads on a specific area of support - Impact, Quality Framework, Regional Campaigns, Collaboration and Volunteering.
- Communications: For advice on social media, making the most of your website, engaging with the press, using the Healthwatch brand, campaigns and email marketing contact hub@healthwatch.co.uk
- Research: Contact research@healthwatch.co.uk for advice on research methodology, questionnaire design, data analysis and report writing.
- Policy: Got a question about health and social care policy or need advice on using your insight to influence policy decisions? Contact policy@healthwatch.co.uk
- Digital/data standards: If you have any questions about our work to improve data standards and systems please contact digital@healthwatch.co.uk
Tools to support you
- Network site: Use this website to find a wealth of resources and guidance, the latest news and upcoming training and events.
- Facebook Workplace: Join our private online community for staff and volunteers to ask questions, share resources and collaborate.
- Communications Centre: Access brand resources and easy-to-use templates to help you create posters, email headers, graphics, social media cards and other resources.
- Flickr library: Use our free photo library of thousands of Healthwatch images to help better communicate your work.
- Reports library: Search our database of Healthwatch reports to find out what other local Healthwatch are doing on a host of health and care issues.
Learning and development
Save the date for our popular events to see what training, learning and development opportunities we offer for the year ahead.