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Take a look at some of the best from Healthwatch 2020, which saw over 400 staff and volunteers take part in 23 virtual events over four days.

Learn more about different ways that you can engage with your communities in these three guides, produced by local Healthwatch.

People who live with dementia are a group often excluded from engagement. This guide describes an approach to gathering their views, including partnership working, co-production and engaging through community groups.

Co-production allows seldom heard groups to explore issues on their terms - with you facilitating, rather than driving. This guide shares how to co-produce a research project with seldom heard groups.

Video diaries are a great way of capturing people’s real-time experiences. This guide shares how to engage with people using video diaries.

How do we engage people who can't use the internet, don't have access or feel comfortable talking to us in this way? Find out how local Healthwatch across England are addressing this issue.

Read about our new volunteering programme, as Alvin Kinch, Volunteering and Regional (London) Network Manager, shares the support available from Healthwatch England for volunteers and their managers.

Help track the impact your work is making to increasing equality using this impact assessment template.

The NHS COVID-19 app has been launched to help notify users if they have come into contact with someone who tests positive for COVID-19. Find out how you can support the campaign to get people to download the app.

From 23 September 2020, Government websites must meet new accessibility regulations, although the regulations are unlikely to apply to Healthwatch services, we have looked at the steps you can take to make your online information accessible.

After hearing from over 80 Healthwatch about how they've used digital tools since COVID-19 to engage with people online, we’ve put together some tips based on what you’ve told us and included learning from Healthwatch England too.