Resources

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

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.

The question "What does Healthwatch do?" can be hard to answer. We've put together some easy read resources so that it's clear to the public who we are and what we do.

Help make the value of your work recognised and look at this toolkit to help you show the impact that you're making to people's experiences of health and social care.

See the notes from the July Policy Forum as well as presentations from the day.

Find out how you can use your evidence and insight about people's experiences of health and social care to work with partners to help improve local services for your community.

Create your own retention and record keeping schedule using our template as a guide.

Take our new e-learning induction will help you gain a shared understanding about who we are, what we do, and how we make a difference.

Having your story covered by a local paper or influencer is a great way to reach more people and encourage your community to share their views about local services.

Here are some top tips to help you write and pitch your story or press notice.