Here is the latest carer and mental health news for December by carer activist and author Matthew McKenzie.

December 2023 Carer and Mental Health news <- read more news items here

For the December edition on unpaid caring and mental health we have

Carer Videos

Preventing trips and falls – Carers UK

How to solve a problem like hospital discharge – The Kings Fund

What are all these assessments? – Carers Support Merton

Saul Becker Keynote on Young Caregivers | 2023 Quebec Symposium on Young Carers

The Triangle of Care explained – Carers Trust

Latest Carer News

The Carers Leave Act received Royal Assent and will be enforced in 2024

The new immigration rules will pile more pressure onto unpaid carers – Emily Holzhausen

How can we better support unpaid carers? – Age UK

Carers Championed at Cygnet

NELFT publishes carers report findings as part of PCREF

Young carers across Northants launch new film to have their ‘voices heard’ and to show the reality of daily life

National Organisation updates

Book a coronavirus vaccination if you are a carer

What can we learn from the Can You Tell We Care report? – Carers Trust

Give feedback on care – CQC

Benefit and pension rates 2023 to 2024

Find your local Healthwatch – Healthwatch England

Volunteer with us – Carers UK

Ethnic carer and minority news updates

Carers UK  good practice briefing for supporting Black, Asian and minority ethnic carers

Advancing mental health equalities – PCREF

Ethnic Inequalities in Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT)

Racial inequalities in maternity must be addressed

NELFT publishes carers report findings as part of PCREF

Racial trauma has profound mental health consequence – a Black clinical psychologist explains and offers 5 ways to heal

AHPs news updates

Occupational therapy interventions for informal carers and implications for carer support: a systematic review

Physiotherapy in the media – 2023 highlights

Cancer Awareness updates

Looking after someone with cancer

Caring for someone with a terminal illness

Risk of dying from cancer in some poorer districts of England over 70% higher than wealthy districts

Join the London Cancer Community