This webinar will help you understand how MPs and Parliament work and how your Healthwatch can engage your local MPs and other parliamentarians in the work you do.

Type of event

Learning webinar with presentations and Q&A for a large audience.   

Who is this event for?

This event is for anyone in Healthwatch who wants to work with their local MPs, in engagement, policy or research for example.

This webinar will help you understand how MPs and Parliament work and how your Healthwatch can engage your local MPs and other parliamentarians in the work you do.

Type of event

Learning webinar with presentations and Q&A for a large audience.   

Who is this event for?

This event is for anyone in Healthwatch who wants to work with their local MPs, in engagement, policy or research for example.

This event will provide you with an opportunity to hear from Healthwatch about undertaking research on men’s health, including insights into how to design effective research projects focused on men, as well as examples of local Healthwatch projects and their impact. You’ll also hear about the development of Healthwatch England’s Men’s Health report, which has been designed to align with the upcoming Men’s Health Strategy soon to be released by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC).

Please note: our previous ‘Measuring Success’ workshop covered much of the content of this session. We therefore suggest you don’t book on this if you have attended that.

Few non-profit organisations don’t want to improve how they measure and then communicate their impact.

But what level of demonstrating impact can they realistically achieve? What do they want to prove – to whom – and what will convince them anyway?

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.  

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.

Type of event

Interactive learning session to large audience with time to ask questions.

Who is this event for?

This session is for anyone involved in communications or media relations for their local Healthwatch.

What you will learn?

In this session you will: