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Guidance
Resources
Healthwatch core skills framework 2025/26
This framework will help you see the skills you use in your role, identify any gaps and find the support you need to develop or fine tune them.
Guidance
Annual report template 2024 - 25
Download the new annual report template to showcase your best projects and how you have made a difference for local people in the last year.
Guidance
How to develop a communications strategy
Find out the critical ingredients for developing communications strategy and access our communications strategy template.
Guidance
Guide: Data processing and protection
This guidance explains the current data protection law and what this will mean for your local Healthwatch.
Guidance
How to complete our annual local Healthwatch survey
To ensure we give you the right support, please fill in the Annual Survey and tell us how things work on the ground for you and the constraints you face locally.
Guidance
Project planning
Take our online course to learn about the essentials of project planning, including developing, planning, delivering and evaluating your project.
E-learning
Template: Privacy statement and cookies policy for your website
Every local Healthwatch is required to publish a privacy statement and cookies policy on your website, outlining how you manage data and personal information. This guidance will explain what to include and provides templates you can use.
Guidance
How to create an impact page on your website
The stories you collate in your annual report can be displayed on your website to show the public exactly how much of a difference you have made to your community. This guidance will show you how to build this page on your website.
Guidance