Here is the latest carer and mental health news for March 2024 by carer activist and author Matthew McKenzie.

March 2024 Carer and Mental Health news <- Read more news items here.

For the March edition on unpaid caring and mental health we have the following news items.

Carer Videos

1. This Morning – Kate Garraway Opens Up On Telling Derek’s Story and Fighting For Carer Support | This Morning
2. Carers in Hertfordshire – MolyFit Exercise
3. Sutton Carers Centre – This Ol’ Money by Sutton Young Carers
4. Carers Trust – Young adult carers support in employment | Fair Futures for Young Carers | Young Carers Action Day
5. The Health Media – CEO of Carers UK: Tackling stigmas, providing support and recognising the important role carers
6. Carers Whiltshire – Military Carer Awareness Training

Latest Carer News

1. Carer’s Leave Act 2023: UK carers’ entitlements from 2024 
2. Young Carers Action Day To Highlight “Fair Futures For Young Carers”
3. Young Carers Action Day – how to support young carers – Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Trust
4. ’15 months since he left that room:’ Carers urge support amid Govt push for National Care Service – ITV
5. New short breaks service available to help unpaid carers in Ealing
6. The right to an education is fundamental to a Fair Future – it’s time for the Government to level the playing field for young adult carers
7. Older people receiving social care and their family carers set out the problems they face and how to fund a better system – Age UK

Carer Research Papers

1. Do people with dementia and carers get what they need? Barriers in social care and carers needs assessments 
2. Carers and empowerment in the UK: a critical reflection
3. We care but we’re not carers: perceptions and experiences of social prescribing in a UK national community organisation 

AHPs news updates

1. British Association of Art Therapists – Spring online Magazine
2. Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists – Long COVID guidance
3. A systematic review of dramatherapy interventions used to support adults with psychosis

Cancer Awareness updates

1. 22 cancer warning signs you need to know with symptoms affecting your mouth, tummy and skin
2. This is what not to say to someone dealing with cancer – and what to say, instead
3. Princess of Wales diagnosis leads to increased visits to NHS website
4. Cancer Experience of Care Recognition Event – 2024

Ethnic carer and minority news updates

1. ‘We need to tear up the idea of BAME’
2. Is the Gypsy Traveller community’s ethnic minority status under threat?
3. Discrimination in NHS: extent of staff bullying revealed
4. Study finds racism contributes to high suicide rates among Black men
5. NHS: inequality and incorporation
6. ‘If you prick me, do I not bleed?’: Antisemitism, racism and group analysis —some thoughts
7. Racism as a Cause of Depression