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Working with Adult Carers - Health

This section focuses on providing information and resources on good practice for health professionals working with carers.

Primary Care

Primary care is often the first point of contact for many carers in terms of identification and referral. Find out how to make your practice more carer-friendly.

Hospitals

The moment at which a patient is discharged from hospital can be crucial in terms of the identification and referral of carers. Find out how you can make the discharge process work most effectively for carers.

Health and Wellbeing

Carers are key partners in keeping patients out of hospital. They also suffer health effects from caring. Paying attention to carers can help the public health agenda.

Caring with Confidence Training for Carers

Mental Health

In this section we provide specialist advice and information for mental health professionals, such as key services and the latest on legislation and guidance.

Carers in the Workforce

Over three million people combine work and care. Find out more about the needs of carers in your workforce, and the skills carers and former carers can bring into the NHS.

Preventing Crisis for Carers

The Moffat Programme is a groundbreaking new project in Scotland to identify and support carers through partnership work between local Carers Centres, health and social care professionals.

Triangle of Care

Guide for better care planning and treatment of people with mental ill-health Triangle Of Care Guide
Triangle of Care

Out of Hospital Report

Learnings from the Trust's 'Out of Hospital' Project leaving hospital
Out of Hospital Report

NHS given £150m to support carers

Is your PCT supporting carers? three members of staff in the workplace
NHS given £150m to support carers

RCGP guide

Our guide for GPs, developed with the RCGP GP with carer
RCGP guide

Commissioning for Carers

Guide for commissioners in health and social care Commissioning for Carers
Commissioning for Carers

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