This event will show you how to design and use interview guides for semi-structured interviews with participants in your research and engagement work. 

This is an interactive session where you will work in small friendly groups hosted by one of our team and have the opportunity to practice mock interviews.  This will hep build your confidence and skills to carry out semi structured interviews in your work.

This session will introduce the way that councils manage health and care services (including social care and Public Health).

We will focus on how you can work with different parts of your local council to influence decisions and make change.

Type of event

This will be an online session which will be a mix of information, discussion and interactive elements.

Please keep your camera on if possible and be prepared to take part.

This event will show you how to design and use interview guides for semi-structured interviews with participants in your research and engagement work. 

This is an interactive session where you will work in small friendly groups hosted by one of our team and have the opportunity to practice mock interviews.  This will hep build your confidence and skills to carry out semi structured interviews in your work.

Join us at our Healthwatch Volunteer Leads network meeting where we will be discussing Equality, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in volunteering. We will explore good practice in reaching, supporting and involving all volunteers and discuss what processes we need to have in place to make our volunteering opportunities as accessible as possible.

You will meet with colleagues across the network to share successes and challenges and support each other in a friendly and informal setting.

Your Theory of Change identifies the long-term outcomes you seek in a particular area of work. But how will you know if you achieve these? What measures might you use to evidence your success and prove your longer-term impact? What strength of claims could you make about your Healthwatch’s contribution? 

This event will show you how to choose the best research and engagement method for your project.

We’ll look at example projects and work together to choose the best approach. You’ll also be able to ask questions about your own projects.

Type of event

Small group session with discussion and an interactive activity. Joining in with your camera on will be appreciated, 

Search engine optimisation (SEO) the process of improving the quality and quantity of website traffic to your website from search engines. 

This session will help you understand the basic concepts of SEO and give you tip to improve it.    

Your Theory of Change identifies the long-term outcomes you seek in a particular area of work. But how will you know if you achieve these? What measures might you use to evidence your success and prove your longer-term impact? What strength of claims could you make about your Healthwatch’s contribution? 

Every organisation should have a crisis communication plan in place. Anything that could affect your organisation’s profile or stall business continuity, from financial loss to staff misconduct, is an example of a risk that warrants communication with stakeholders and/ or the public. 

There are approximately 14 million disabled people in the UK. This workshop will help you gain awareness about disability and how disability can impact the health outcomes and experiences of people accessing health and social care services. This awareness is an important part of supporting the communities we serve.

You will have the opportunity to ask questions and discuss how this relates to your own work.