Carers in Hertfordshire is a platform for the voice of carers.
Carers in Hertfordshire offers carers the opportunity to get
their voices heard on an individual and collective basis by:
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Informing
and advising carers about how to complain about services
carers, or the person being cared for, receive. |
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Involving
carers in specialist Carers Forums and Local Listening
to Carers events. |
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Enabling
carers to participate in the planning and monitoring of
health and social care services. They can give their
views on the availability and quality of existing
services, as well as working in partnership with other
agencies to plan the provision of new services |
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Feeding
back carers views to County Councillors and other
planners to decide strategies and priorities in social
care and primary health care. |
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Gaining a
picture of carers concerns and difficulties every time a
contact is made with Carers in Hertfordshire
which is used to inform service planning in other
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Current opportunities to get involved:
Medicine Matters:
Enabling carers to raise their concerns about medicine matters
and get them addressed. Medicine matters are loosely defined
as: lack of information about drug treatment and the side
effects, inequality of provision of some drug treatments and the
lack of choice of alternatives to drug treatment.
Contact us for more
details.
Learning Disability Forum:
The Forum aims to provide carers with
opportunities to influence the planning of the Community and
Health Care Services for those with a Learning Disability in
Hertfordshire
Listening to Carers
Events: local carers consultations
are being organised in local areas throughout the county
offering carers the opportunity to have their say about local
concerns and be involved in developing local carers action
plans. Click here to find out more
about forthcoming events near you.
Carers Training Unit:
involving carers in the training of
paid staff. Providing training to health and social care
professionals is one way that carers can get involved. Carer
Trainers are positioned to pass on knowledge to benefit other
carers and to improve the quality of health and social care
services. Contact us
for more details.
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