Local Healthwatch lead officers.
Another senior staff member is welcome to attend in your place if you’re not available, but we’ll assume they’re able to fully participate in discussions.
The Healthwatch network is working within the very real context of a national decision to wind down the Healthwatch infrastructure, while many local hosts continue to hold important statutory and community roles.
This webinar will cover the learning from the work undertaken by The Advocacy People, which was commissioned by Healthwatch England, on how local Healthwatch are engaging with Integrated Care Boards (ICBs). It will provide a snapshot of how they are working and adapting in a challenging and uncertain environment.
Webinar with presentation on the findings and learning from the report, plus a question and answer session.
Discover why it’s important to collect demographic data and how and when to collect it. The resource also contains ideas about how you can support your staff and volunteers to collect demographic data and how you can use it.
It’s important that we understand how different groups of people experience health and social care services. To make this a reality we need to collect demographic from people as well as their experience.
We know that some Healthwatch find it difficult to collect and use demographic data, so Healthwatch Waltham Forest has produced this guidance to help.
It includes:
The guidance includes a note on sex, gender and gender identity demographic questions.
The Healthwatch network is working within the very real context of a national decision to wind down the Healthwatch infrastructure, while many local hosts continue to hold important statutory and community roles.
Many Healthwatch organisations were established solely to deliver Healthwatch activities and include ‘Healthwatch’ in the name of their legal entity (for example, a charity or CIC). Some have since changed their name and charitable objects to broaden the scope of contracts and commissions they can take on.
We have created a learning and development calendar for the year ahead so you can see what training opportunities from us you will have throughout the year.
We have designed this plan based on your feedback and the Healthwatch core skills framework.
Events are now available to book through our training and events section. Please always remember to let us know if you can no longer a session that you book in advance, so we can offer the place to someone else.
If you have any problems accessing this document please email us.
You told us that you would find it helpful if we grouped our learning and development offer into pathways linked to key Healthwatch roles and responsibilities.
There are some core activities that all local Healthwatch must do. These will be carried out by different people in each local Healthwatch, so we have focused on activities rather than job titles. We have a range of training, peer networks, guidance, and e-learning courses to help you develop your skills and build your confidence in these areas. The activities are:
There is a page for each core activity with the keys skills you need to carry them out and the learning opportunities that will help you. New members of staff or volunteers may want to complete the whole pathway, more experienced people may just want to plug gaps in their learning.
Everyone learns differently so we have colour coded the different learning opportunities so you can choose which suits you best. Where there are several learning opportunities next to a skill, you can choose which suits you best and do as many as you wish. The links will take you straight to the session to book, the e-learning course or the resource to download.
From left to right you will see webinars, e-learning courses, peer network meetings, guidance documents then bespoke support. This is not in any priority order, just for ease of reading.
This is a network meeting for local Healthwatch Chairs and board members to hear about and discuss key policy updates from Healthwatch England. This is also your opportunity to network and share learning with other Healthwatch leaders.
Networking meeting with key updates and discussion. Your input and participation are appreciated.
Local Healthwatch Chairs and board members.
These meetings are an opportunity for local Healthwatch lead officers to meet with Healthwatch England's Deputy Chief Executive Chris McCann, hear key policy updates and to network with leaders from other local Healthwatch.
Networking meeting with national policy updates and discussion. Helping to shape these meetings by bringing agenda items and taking part in discussions is appreciated.
Local Healthwatch lead officers.
This session will take you through the basics of good media relations, including how to develop and sell your story and to come across well in an interview.
Interactive learning session to large audience with time to ask questions.
This session is for anyone involved in communications or media relations for their local Healthwatch.
