Are You a Carer?
If you help to look after a partner, relative, friend or neighbour who is frail or who has a health problem or a disability, you can ask for your own needs to be assessed. Please call into the surgery and ask for a Carers Pack, which may be of help to you. You can also download our carers leaflet
This leaflet provides support and where you can get help in caring for someone. Similarly we have included some useful telephone numbers on the website for you.
We will mark your record so that we know you are a Carer. Remember, you will also be entitled to an annual Flu jab.
Rightcare
RightCare is designed to help you access the right level of care for your health problems and avoid unnecessary trips to the hospital Out of Hours. RightCare helps to lower patient anxiety, provides reassurance and allows patients to access appropriate healthcare and advice quickly.
NHS Health Checks
If you are aged between 40 and 74, we would like to invite you to the surgery to have a few simple tests to identify and prevent heart disease, stroke and diabetes.
The NHS Health Check is part of a national programme to help prevent cardiovascular disease.
Please take a look at the NHS Health Checks tab on the right hand side of the screen.
Further information for carers
There is a wealth of information on NHS Choices about carers and caring. Below are some links into the site that we hope you will find useful.
- Caring for a parent
Watch this video on: caring for a parent at home
- Telling people
Caring responsibilities can make it difficult to maintain friendships or develop new ones. Telling your friends you're a carer is important so they understand and can support you.
- Taking a break
Caring for someone can be a full-time job, but it's essential that you take time out for yourself too. Read our guide to accessing breaks and respite.
- Housing and carers
Do you know your tenancy rights as a carer? Are you aware of all your care at home options? Do you need tips on moving someone around the home?
Carers support groups
Finance and Law
Help claiming benefits, looking after your bank balance and understanding the legal issues of caring.
- Benefits for carers
Directing carers to the benefits that can help them in their caring role
- Benefits for the person you care for
Advice and information on helping the person you look after get the benefits that they are entitled to
- Death and benefits
How your benefits maybe affected after the death of the person you look after and what happens to their benefits
- Managing someone's legal affairs
Advice for when carers find they have to take over the legal affairs of the person they are looking after
- Other benefits
Advice for carers and the people they are looking after on claiming a whole host of other benefits unrelated to their disability or caring
- Personal and household finance
Advice on keeping a tight rein on household and personal finance for carers
- Social fund
- Tax credits
Information on claiming tax credits and whether you might be eligible