Carers Support

You may be a carer, if you provide help and support to a partner, relative, child, friend or neighbour who could not manage without your help due to physical or mental illness, disability, frailty or addiction. Many people don’t think of themselves as carers; they just look after someone close to them. Caring often just happens to you, as you find that someone close to you gradually needs more help. There are thousands of unpaid carers in South Gloucestershire. Carers Leaflet

Becoming a carer can feel isolating and it’s often a struggle to get the information you need.

When you are looking after someone, it’s important to have some help for yourself, such as a break from caring.

Carers Support Centre, is a local organisation that can provide you with information and advice on any aspect of caring and services that might be useful such as the Carers Emergency Card. (forms located further down page) They can also help with a carers assessment and put you in touch with other organisation that offer specialist support, for example about dementia, mental health problems or recovering from a stroke. 

Carers Support Centre can also advise on any financial help you or the person you look after may be entitled to. There are also carers groups that meet regularly to share practical ideas and friendship.

As a carer, it is important that you look after your own health as it’s easy not to look after yourself when you are looking after someone else.

Here at Streamside Surgery, we want to be able to do all we can to help you to stay as fit and health as possible.

We will do our best to help you look after yourself as well as the person you care for, we can offer:

• Register of carers – Please register yourself as a carer at reception or download here.
• Monthly clinics with Mary Bennett from the Carers Support Centre who can offer more help and support. Appointments to see Mary can be made by contacting the Practice
• A Carers information pack that can be collected from reception
• Flu Vaccinations to Carers each Autumn
• Aged 40 – 74? Find out about our FREE NHS Health check. Can help you to reduce risks and make sure that you stay healthy.
• Carers Liaison Service support for carers through GP Practices and in hospital. 

Getting help and connected is the first step to information and support that will help you in your role.

There is a questionnaire and action plan for all carers which helps you to look at your needs, how caring affects you and provides information on support available to carers. To request a carers assessment questionnaire and help getting connected, please contact the Carers Support Centre using the telephone number below.

Carer Forms

Apply for a Carers Emergency Card Form

Instructions for completing Emergency Card Form application

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