RCGP – Supporting Carers Action Guide

The revised edition of the “Supporting Carers” action guide for 2011, offering an overview of how practices can support carers within their practice, along with up-to-date policy and good practice was launched at the RCGP Annual Conference on 21 October.

Are You A Carer?

This booklet details the types of support available through Southwark Carers. The booklet explains our core services including Information, Advice and Support Services, Advocacy, Counselling, Support and Activity Group, Financial Assistance and Grants, Respite Care and Emergency Planning Support.

Are you a young carer?

A Southwark Carers booklet that details the advice and support available to young carers in the borough. The young carers booklet looks at help available through schools, charities and social services to support a young carer through their lives.

Working Carers

As a carer, you may currently be juggling caring with paid work. You may be considering giving up work so that you can continue to care, or your role as a carer may have recently ended and you are looking for work.

It is important that you know your rights and the options available to you when making decisions about caring and paid employment. In this booklet, you will find information on staying in work, giving up work and returning to work.

Hospital Discharge Planning Advice

This booklet is designed to provide the carer with information about the discharge from hospital process. When your cared for person is being discharged from hospital it can be a very distressing and confusing time.

It may be you are becoming a care for the first time. Or if you were caring for that person before, you may now face changes to your caring role.

Supporting Carers the case for change

The report demonstrates how supporting carers can improves the health and wellbeing of carers and the people being cared for, and reduces demand on other health and social care services. It uses evidence from randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and peer reviewed journals and gives examples of services that have shown success in supporting carers. It will hopefully be of special interest to commissioners and finance directors in health and social care, general practitioners and councillors.

Can Counselling Help?

Being a Carer can be a challenging role. At times it can evoke distress, frustration and anger. We all live through difficult and distressing events or experience painful feelings.

The counsellor’s role is to help you gain a greater understanding and awareness of yourself and the problems you have to face.

Carers and confidentiality in mental health

This leaflet is about confidentiality issues which arise between mental health professionals and carers of adults with mental health problems, in particular those who provide on-going help and support, without payment, to a relative, partner or friend.

The issues of confidentiality and information-sharing between mental health professionals and carers are difficult and complex to resolve. Some of these problems are described, together with examples of good practice which may help address them, and hopefully provide more positive results for all concerned.