Inside news July 2022
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Do you care for someone living with dementia?
A team of researchers from NIHR School for Social Research, University of Portsmouth, Queen Mary University of London and King’s College London are inviting you to participate in a research study on how homecare workers help with mouth and teeth care. The researchers are keen to talk family carers about the mouth and teeth care […]
Read more...Free carers wellbeing event
Find Your Wild are inviting people caring for a family member or friend to connect with nature and join them at a friendly group for walking, talking, art and crafts. The free sessions for carers aged 50 and over and those in their care, run at The Othersyde Cafe, Cambridge on a Monday morning, 10.30am […]
Read more...Well done to the Spinney Surgery for receiving the Carer Friendly Tick Award
The Spinney Surgery in St Ives has been awarded Caring Together’s Carer Friendly Tick Award – Health, in recognition of their continued work to identify and support carers. The panel was particularly impressed by the surgery having the same carers champion for the last five years. This gives carers the reassurance that there is someone […]
Read more...Inside news June 2022
Read the latest issue of inside news for carers.
Read more...Do you support a family member living at home with dementia?
Researchers at the University of Manchester are keen to hear your experiences of supporting a family member during the COVID-19 pandemic. They are inviting you to take part in an anonymous survey which can be sent to you through the post or it can be completed online. If you are interested in taking part in […]
Read more...Norfolk hospital receives Carer Friendly Tick Award in recognition of their work to identify and support carers
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn NHS Foundation Trust has been awarded Caring Together’s Carer Friendly Tick Award (Health), in recognition of their work to identify and support carers. On behalf of Caring Together, a charity supporting people caring for family members or friends, a panel of carers assessed the submission from the Trust. The […]
Read more...Join us for a virtual Carers Week conference
Carers Week is on the way from 6 – 12 June, if you are caring for a family member or friend, or a health professionals in Norfolk, we invite you to join us to a virtual conference for you. Carers Voice Norfolk and Waveney Norfolk and Waveney Health and Care Partnership and Caring Together are […]
Read more...Contacting us over the Platinum Jubilee Bank Holiday
Please note that due to the Platinum Jubilee Bank Holiday we will be closed on Thursday 2 June and Friday 3 June and will reopen on Monday 6 June. Our opening hours on other days will be as normal and you can contact us in the normal ways. If you email over the Bank Holiday weekend […]
Read more...Concern and disappointment around failure to introduce much-needed support for carers
We have today expressed our concern and disappointment that the Queen’s Speech has missed another opportunity to help people looking after family members and friends who have a health condition. It was hoped an Employment Bill would be forthcoming in the speech, including a new leave right to one week of leave per year for […]
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