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With the majority of adults using social media, it is a great way to promote your Healthwatch, answer questions from the public and seek feedback on services. Find out how to build engagement and get the most out of each platform.

Find out how to make effective recommendations that help achieve change and how to make them stick in our guidance.

Evidence that is clearly communicated in an engaging way is more likely to be acted upon. Find out how best to present your findings and encourage action.

Take a look at this example of a risk and crisis communication plan and find out how to write your own.

Find out what is included in the Health and Social Care Bill and how the changes will affect you.

Find out how this resource will help you and your team deliver on projects with successful outcomes – from start to finish!

Refugees and asylum seekers are often under represented groups, with language barriers and unfamiliar surroundings preventing them from engaging easily with services. Find out how to engage directly with them by overcoming these challenges.

This guide gives you an introduction into how you can use live streaming as a way of connecting with different areas of your community, increasing your reach and building relationships with stakeholders.

This guide from Healthwatch Camden explains how to partner with your local GP surgeries and send text messages to their patient list with links to your current surveys and when this digital engagement method is, and isn't, appropriate.

During the pandemic, Healthwatch were unable to visit services to find out about people's experiences. Across the network, Healthwatch have found other ways of getting insight that may prove useful as an alternative to Enter and View.

Find out about our new brand values, as well as the steps we'll take this year to strengthen our brand further.