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Useful templates and assets to help you with your digital and traditional marketing activities.
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
Cervical screening my way - campaign communications pack
Use this communications toolkit to support our new campaign to increase cervical screening uptake.
Guidance
An introduction to Equality, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Take our new e-learning course to gain an understanding of areas including the Equality Act 2010, protected characteristics and Healthwatch's role in tackling health inequalities.
E-learning
Social care survey template questions
In July 2024, Healthwatch England published research on the experiences of working-age disabled people when accessing and using social care. We heard that some Healthwatch are interested in carrying out similar research but are not sure what to ask, so we are publishing the questions from our survey.
Guidance