Carers Support

Do you look after someone due to age, illness, disability or addiction? if the answer is YES then you are a carer.

Please let us know so that you are recognised for your caring role and added to our GP carers register.

Find out what support is available to you from the North Staffs Carers association.

Carers First 01782 793100

• Did you know that you are eligible for a free carer’s health check and free flu/covid 19 vaccination?
• Are you aware that we provide a social prescribing service that can help you to claim relevant benefits, or signpost you to services that may be of benefit to you?

Here to make life better for carers

20 Great Dover Street
London SE1 4LQ

t: 020 7378 4999

e: advice@carersuk.org

w: www.carersuk

There is a wealth of information on the NHS website about carers and caring. Below are some links into the site that we hope you will find useful.

• A guide to care and support

  Information for carers and people who have care & support needs.

• Caring for someone

  Advice on providing care, medicines etc.

• looking after family or friends when they leave hospital
  

  Providing care for people who have been recently discharged from hospital.

• Taking a break

  Caring for someone can be a full-time job - find out about accessing breaks and respite care.

• Support and benefits for carers
  

  Caring for someone can be a full-time job - find out about accessing breaks and respite care.

• Work and Disability
  

  Guidance, support and help with employment issues.

  Being a Young carer

  Advice for carers 18 or under and their entitlement to support

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 under-65s

  Advice and information on helping the person you look after get the benefits that they are entitled to.

  Benefits for the over-65s

  Advice and information on financial support for older people with a disability or illness.

• Carer's Assement
  

  How your benefits maybe affected after the death of the person you look after and what happens to their benefits

• 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

Are you homeless and staying in the local area?

We offer a walk in clinic on a Thursday afternoon between 2pm-6pm with a doctor, a nurse, benefits advice and mental health advice available. Just show up on a Thursday afternoon if you need this service. Please remember to register with the surgery beforehand.

Please come to reception and ask for a registration form.

We need your help!

We are looking for people to help us to cultivate our garden outside the surgery. Everyone welcome and refreshments will be provided. Every Thursday between 2.30pm and 4.30pm.

The gardening group is operated by the Young at Heart project, part of Father Hudson’s Care, in collaboration with Asda, the Probation Service, Co-op Funeralcare, My Community Matters and Harley Street Medical Centre. For more information, call Young at Heart on 01782 269990.