Who would care if you didn’t?
Do you care for someone who is a relative, friend or neighbour who has a long term illness disability, mental health problem or frailty due to age and are not paid for doing this?
If this is you, we may be able to help.
If you are a member of staff who has contact with a patient, family, relatives and friends is there someone in a caring role that you think needs support. If so let them know that we may be able to help. If you are a member of staff who is also a carer please come and talk to us if you need to.
The Carers Support Team is part of the Patient Experience Team within the Birmingham Community Healthcare Trust (BCHC), and focuses on improving the support and advice available for carers in the communities of the south and west of Birmingham and any BCHC member of staff.
Who can use our service?
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The carer must be registered with a GP in South Birmingham or Heart of Birmingham Teaching Primary Care Trust (the south and west of the city). NHS Birmingham East and North Primary care Trust has not commissioned a service for carers from BCHC so we cannot provide intensive support but will ensure that carers from NHS BEN who contact us are given general information and are referred to NHS Birmingham East and North Primary Care Trust Patient Advice and Liaison Service or to the Birmingham Carers Centre or Carers UK
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A carer of a patient using BCHC services
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A member of BCHC staff who is a carer.
Download our Carers Support Team information leaflet.
Download the Carers Support Team poster.
Please note the contact details in our leaflet and poster have changed. Please refer to the right hand side of this page for the up to date contact details for the Carers Support Team.
Our aims are to:
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Offer a wide range of services aimed at providing on-going support and advice to carers in order to help them cope with the stress of caring for someone on an ongoing basis
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Provide information, advice and support enabling carers to make informed choices to improve their physical and mental well being. This can contribute to carers receiving improved access to services and reduce social isolation
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Actively identify carers at an early stage of their caring role
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Provide information and advice tailored to the carer’s particular circumstances
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Act as a link between carers and those who provide services
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Support carers to relieve social isolation and promote health and well-being
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Signpost carers to other relevant services
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Produce a bi-monthly newsletter for carers
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We support several carers groups across Birmingham
Listening to Carers
We want to provide a service that meets the needs of carers in Birmingham. During Carers Week 2011 we actively engaged with carers to find out what was important to them. We will now use these views to shape the service we provide for carers.
Click here to see what carers have said.
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