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Use this checklist if your Healthwatch changes provider. It includes the steps local authorities, outgoing and incoming providers need to consider during this transitional period, to ensure the public continue to receive a good service.

Significant pressures have been placed on the running of local Healthwatch with COVID-19. You may have changed the way you work, with staff working remotely, and your priorities for the year may have shifted.

Take a look at the things you should think about before doing any online or remote engagement with the public.

Working remotely presents all sorts of challenges, and can feel isolating, but there are lots of ways to work well from home. Find out how.

Find out more about how to run a Healthwatch, including how to meet your legal obligations and exercise powers.

Tell our experts how you think technology could make a difference to your work. Take our survey, find out about our project and help improve how Healthwatch uses digital systems in the future.

Our new Learning and Development Manager explains our plans to help you learn and develop next year. Marianne joined the team at Healthwatch England in September as Learning and Development Manager. Find out more about her role and the plans for the network.

Email marketing is a great way of developing relationships and communicating with people who have engaged with you in the past or have signed up to hear updates from you in the future.

Understand how to create and add to pages using blocks.

Some NHS services have a legal duty to alert their local housing authority if they identify someone who they believe is homeless or at risk of becoming so. Find out the questions you can ask your NHS to understand if they are meeting this duty.

Download all the resources from this event, which focused on involving young people in our work.