If you look after a friend or relative who cannot manage without your help, you are classed as a carer.  We would like to support you in your very important role.

As a carer you are entitled to a free flu vaccination during the flu season.  The person you look after may be entitled to a carer’s assessment.

Please let us know that you look after someone who cannot manage without you by clicking here and completing our form. We can register you as a Carer and sign post you to services that can help you, such as Carers Count and The Carer's Trust.

Even if you are not a patient of ours, we can still provide you with a range of information to enable you to register as a Carer at your own practice.

Our Carer Champion is Sana Hussain.

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.

• Care after 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