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Use our template Memorandum of Understanding to create a joint agreement on how you and your ICS will formally work together.

Submit your Quality Framework here on the Network site.

How can you work with partners to tackle health inequalities? We spoke to Healthwatch Islington about how they make their partnership work and the impact it's had.

Volunteers’ Week runs from 1-7 June. Say thanks and help raise awareness of why volunteering for Healthwatch matters.

Take our online course to learn about the essentials of project planning, including developing, planning, delivering and evaluating your project.

Every local Healthwatch is required to publish a privacy statement and cookies policy on your website, outlining how you manage data and personal information. This guidance will explain what to include and provides templates you can use.

The stories you collate in your annual report can be displayed on your website to show the public exactly how much of a difference you have made to your community. This guidance will show you how to build this page on your website.

It's important that you work together effectively with other local Healthwatch to prepare for ICS changes. This toolkit provides guidance on how to facilitate collaboration at place and system level.

This guidance sets out the issues you need to consider when using demographic data as part of a research or engagement project.

The pandemic has shown more than ever the importance of collecting demographic information to help us better draw conclusions about people’s experiences of health and care. Here is why it’s important, how we’re going to support you, and FAQs.

Do we enable people to play an active and influential part in our work? Get involved in new research that aims to find out.