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South Somerset Healthcare Federation Carers' Champion Resource Packs
Primary Pack
- If Only I'd Known That - St John's Ambulance
- South Somerset Carers Support Groups
- Looking after me courses - Expert Patients Programme
- Carers Support Programme Courses poster - St Johns Ambulance
- Carers Support Programme Courses leaflet - St Johns Ambulance
- Carers Support Programme Courses timetable - St Johns Ambulance
- St Margaret's Hospice Time 4 Carers - St Margaret's Hospice
- St Margaret's Hospice Quantock House - Caring for Carers - St Margaret's Hospice
- Refreshing Days for Carers 2012 - Ammerdown Centre
- Information sheets for carers E3,Breaks for Carers - Somerset County Council
- Information sheets for carers E4, Carers Assessments - Somerset County Council
- Information sheets for carers E5, Financial Information, Support and Benefits - Somerset County Council
- Information sheets for carers E8, Help if the person you care for goes into or comes out of hospital - Somerset County Council
- Careline South Somerset - Careline
- Mindline Somerset - Mindline
- Somerset Care Services Directory - Somerset Direct
- ITHelp@home leaflet - ITHelp@home
- A Carers Guide to Rights and Benefits - Carers UK
Secondary Pack
- Toe nail cutting services in South Somerset
- Kiloran Trust: Holiday breaks for carers - Kiloran Trust
- Community Computers UK
- You Care, You Count: A carers' guide to getting support - Rethink
- South Somerset Assocation for Voluntary & Community Action (SSVCA) - community transport service and Furnicare service
- Improving support for Black Asian Minority Ethnic carers Carers UK
- Support Groups for carers of adults with mental health problems - Somerset Partnership
- What every carer needs to know: a guide to mental capacity - Carers UK
- Who Cares? Info and support for carers of confused people - Department of Health Publications
- Penn House mental health carers support group - Jackie Murphy
- Caring for people with dementia - Somerset Partnership
- Yeovil Bipolar Self Help Group - Bipolar UK
- Memory Cafes/singing for the brain - Alzheimer's Society
- Somerset Cancer Care: Living with cancer - St Margaret's Hospice
- MS Carers: Haynes Manual for men caring for someone with MS - MS Society
- Carers Guide for carers of people with Parkinsons - Parkinsons
- Supporting young carers and their families - The Children's Society
Carers Champion Evaluation Report - June 2011
Carers Champions Reunion - 15th Feb 2011
- Dr David Rooke's Introduction
- Carer Health and Wellbeing Checks - Denise Rendell
- Carer Registration and Best Practice - Jo Haxby
- Carers Champion Evaluation
- Carers Leaflet - Marie Richards
What is the Carers Champion Scheme:
Carers Champion Newsletters:
- December 2011
- November 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
Resources: for Carers Display in practices
- St John Ambulance Carer Support Programme - poster
- St John Ambulance Carer Support Programme - leaflet
- St John Ambulance Carer Support Programme - courses 2011
- St John Ambulance Carer Support Programme - courses 2012
- Expert Patients Programme - Looking After Me Course for Carers
- Quantock House Leaflet - Carers Breaks (3MB)
- Carers UK - Mendip Leaflet
- Carers Champion Poster
- "If Only I'd Known That" - Booklet for Carers - Order Form
- "We're here for carers" Carers UK Membership form for individuals Leaflet
- Somerset Carers Charter - copies may be ordered from: Somersetdirect@somerset.gov.uk
- Carers Emergency Card - copies may be ordered from: Somersetdirect@somerset.gov.uk
- Somerset Carers Website Poster
- "Calling All Carers" - a template to complete for your surgery
Best Practice: Useful documents and ideas from other Carers Champions
(please amend these documents so they are relevant to your practice)
- Protocol for identification and referral of carers - North Curry Health Centre
- Summervale Medical Centre Carer Leaflet & Registration form
- Newsletter from North Street, Ilminster - Summer 2011
- Informal Carers: A presentation by Amy Bonner of Crown Medical Centre
- Frome Medical Practice Carers Policy
- Frome Medical Practice Carers Registration Form
- Frome Medical Practice Carers Leaflet
- Carers Awareness Training for Staff - Caring For Carers - Powerpoint presentation by Burnham Medical Centre
- Cannington Health Centre Notes for Carers Presentation
- Think Carers! - sticky labels to give to practices staff
- Carers Registration Consent Form
- Points for Carers Champions when delivering staff training in GP practices
- Carers Champion Volunteer Role Description
- Carers Quiz for use with your practice team - by Warwick House MC
- Carers Awareness Training for staff - by Warwick House MC
- Carers Awareness Training for Staff - Powerpoint presentation by Beckington Family Practice
- GP Carers Reminder Poster - by Beckington Family Practice
- Carers Awareness Training for Staff - Powerpoint presentation by Preston Grove MC
Memory Cafes and Singing for the Brain
- Somerset Programme
- Street Cafe Flyer
- Chard Memory Cafe Flyer
- Sherborne Memory Cafe Flyer
- Sherborne Singing for the Brain Flyer
- Yeovil Memory Cafe Flyer
- Minehead Memory Cafe Flyer
- Minehead Singing for the Brain Flyer
- Wells Singing for the Brain Flyer
- Frome Memory Cafe Flyer
- Street Memory Cafe Flyer
- Castle Cary Singing for the Brain Flyer
- Bridgwater Memory Cafe Flyer
- Taunton Memory Cafe Flyer
- Taunton Singing for the Brain Flyer
- Ilminster Singing for the Brain Flyer
- Wells Flyer
Useful Links for Carers
- Supporting Carers - an action guide for GPs and their teams
- A4e Improving Peoples's Lives
- Somerset 18-35 Carers
- The Princess Royal Trust for Carers
- Carers Direct
- Somerset County Council - Carers in Somerset
- Somerset Active Living
- Directgov - Caring for Someone
- Help & Care
- Marie Curie Cancer Care - Somerset Project Streams
- LINKS - Your voice on local Health and Social Care - Whats Going On
- Directgov - The Big Care Debate
- Carers and Confidentiality in Mental Health
- Department of Health - Carers