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Guidance
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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
Thinking about ethics and risk when planning research
What are the two main aspects of research ethics that you need to consider when planning your work? Find out in our new guidance.
Guidance
How to get the right sample for your research
Read our top tips for how to choose a good sample of participants for your research projects.
Guidance
Online engagement techniques - e-learning module
As we move into an increasingly digital world it's important to get the basics right. Take a look at this e-learning module on how to engage with people online.
E-learning