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May Monthly Carer & Health News Updates 2024

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

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

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

Carer Videos

  1. Carer Coaching Service Video – Carers Support West Sussex
  2. Carers UK – Step fitness session
  3. Solihull Carers – – Dementia Awareness Week – Carers Talk Episode 7
  4. Kate Garraway Questions Why Ministers Ignored Warnings on Unpaid Carers
  5. ‘I feel completely ignored’: the human impact of respite care costs – Channel 4 News
  6. Mental Health Awareness Week 2024 – Mental Health Support at Dundee Carers Centre

Latest Carer News

  1. What is Carers Week? 
  2. East London NHS Trust – City and Hackney Family, Friends and Carers Hub Officially Opens
  3. Ten years of the Care Act 2014: ‘the right legislation, undermined by a lack of funding’
  4. The British Psychological Society – Trauma and parent carers
  5. We need to break taboo around death, end-of-life carer says
  6. Calls for new Carers Strategy
  7. DWP told to ‘urgently’ improve after carers left owing thousands of pounds
  8. Occupations And Interruptions: A Poetry Workshop For Carers
  9. Caring for the carers!
  10. Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust – Carers Week 10 – 16 June – Putting carers on the map
  11. Richmond council – Carers Week 2024: Putting Carers on the Map
  12. CareFest event for OAPs, disabled and unpaid carers coming to Bishop’s Stortford Library
  13. The need for a new National Carers Strategy 
  14. General Election 2024 – It Shouldn’t Cost To Care – Carers Trust 
  15. NHS Constitution: 10 year review
  16. Caring for People with Psychosis and Schizophrenia 

Ethnic carer and minority news updates

  1. Black Mental Health Workers Alliance Launches Manifesto to Tackle Mental Health Disparities
  2. Facts and figures about racism and mental health
  3. Carers UK  good practice briefing for supporting Black, Asian and minority ethnic carers
    Advancing mental health equalities – PCREF
  4. ‘Stark disparities’: why black mothers are more at risk of perinatal mental illness in England
  5. Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Mental Health Care: Findings from the KFF Survey of Racism, Discrimination and Health

March Monthly Carer & Health News Updates 2024

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

February Monthly Carer & Health News Updates 2024

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

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

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

Carer Videos

  1. Irish in Britian – Carers matter: Thoughtful Thursday
  2. The Carers Challenge 2023: Launched by ADASS President, Beverley Tarka
  3. Carers UK – Tips and guidance for carers on residential care
  4. Channel 4 – ‘Carers are just abandoned’: Demand for council respite care soars as funding squeezed

Latest Carer News

  1. Keep carers in work to save £6bn, Government urged
  2. Hospital discharge and community support latest guidance – DHSC
  3. Lindsey Burrow: Who Cares For Our Carers?
  4. Charities must be ready for delays, risks and ‘manufactured culture wars’ ahead of election
  5. Young carers don’t live in any particular postcode or come from any particular type of family – neither do poets
  6. Esports students at East Sussex college raise funds and awareness for local young carers
  7. Carers Week 2024 is ‘putting carers on the map’
  8. Dorset carers encouraged to get local discount card
  9. Making life better for Carers, how a Carers ID card can help

National Organisation updates

  1. Fair Futures For Young Carers: Young Carers Action Day 2024 Theme – Carers Trust
  2. A carer’s guide to preparedness – Mobilise
  3. Find your local Healthwatch – Healthwatch England
  4. About OneLondon – London Care Record data focus
  5. Social Prescribing Information Sheet for Local Carer Organisations
  6. Join Carers UK as a member
  7. Give feedback on care – CQC

Carer Research Papers

  1. Unpaid Care Policies in the UK policy briefing – Professor Liz Lloyd 
  2. Catching the threads: caregiving in Alzheimer’s disease – Elizabeth Kuipers
  3. A qualitative exploration of the barriers and enablers to supporting informal and familial carers within community pharmacies

AHPs news updates

  1. Swallowing Awareness Day 2024 – RCSLT
  2. Share your views on our Strategic Plan towards 2030 – Gosc
  3. Episode three of our Trauma series – College of Paramedics 
  4. Six allied health professions have come together to launch #PrescribingNow 
  5. Fluid (water and drinks) and hydration – BDA

Cancer Awareness updates

  1. UK cancer treatment falls behind other countries
  2. Ask the expert: Living with lymphoma
  3. Ultra-processed food raises risk of cancer and heart disease, review finds
  4. Factors Associated With Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer Outcomes

January Monthly Carer & Health News Updates 2024

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

January 2024 Carer and Mental Health news <- read more news items here.

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

Carer Videos

  1. What are all these assessments? – Carers Support Merton
  2. Barnet Carers Landscape 40sec for social media – Barnet Carers TV
  3. Carers Emergency Card – Worcestershire Association of Carers
  4. AbilityNet digital technology support and information – Carers UK
  5. Know Your Rights As An Unpaid Carer | Carer Aware Project – Carers Trust
  6. Your Circle What is is and how to us it – Gloucestershire Carers Hub

Carer Centre Newsletters  

  1. Barnet Carers Centre
  2. Carers Centre Tower Hamlets 
  3. Bromley Well carers newsletter
  4. Enfield Carers Centre

Latest Carer News

  1. Unpaid carers left ‘deeply hurt’ after respite services suspended
  2. The experiences of carers of faith – Carers UK 
  3. How to manage your finances as an unpaid carer in the UK – The Guardian 
  4. Far greater commitment to unpaid carers needed in 2024
  5. Courageous Kate Garraway has revealed uphill challenges nation’s silent army of carers face: Sarah Todd
  6. Government defines kinship carers
  7. Hospital discharge grant to support unpaid carers still available – Leicestershire County Council
  8. ADASS publish a new roadmap for social care
  9. The experiences of carers of faith – Carers UK 
  10. Project investigates issues faced by young carers

National Organisation updates

  1. Carers Trust responds to closure of West Norfolk Carers
  2. Carers UK – Help and advice
  3. Give feedback on care – CQC
  4. Find your local Healthwatch

Carer Research Papers

  1. Trapped: Experiences of unpaid carers of clinically vulnerable people “shielding” during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic 
  2. Service user and carer involvement in mental health care safety: raising concerns and improving the safety of services

Cancer Awareness updates

  1. London Cancer carer group
  2. Living with and beyond cancer – Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
  3. Support for Carers – Cancer Care Map
  4. Improving outcomes in cancer care

November Monthly Carer & Health News Updates 2023

Latest carer and mental health news for November by carer activist and author Matthew McKenzie

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

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

Carer Videos

Carer’s Leave Act support – Carers UK

Calling For Unpaid Carers Rights – Carers Trust

Carers Rights Day Video – Worcestershire Association of Carers

Latest Carer News

Carers Rights Day – your rights today, tomorrow and in the future – Richmond Council

Carers’ Rights Day 2023 – Government

First parliamentary inquiry into young carers reveals devastating impact on life opportunities

Monthly One Stop Shop for Carers – Kingston Hospital NHS FT

Third of UK carers with poor mental health have thoughts of suicide, survey finds

National Organisation updates

Carers Trust responds to Autumn Statement

Carers Rights Day – Carers UK

Book a coronavirus vaccination if you are a carer

Carers UK responds to the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement

Ethnic carer and minority news updates

Lambeth leads the way in the journey towards anti racism in mental health services in England

Black and Asian people find it harder to access NHS mental health services, report finds

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

July Monthly Carer & Health News Updates 2023

Latest carer and mental health news for July by carer activist and author Matthew McKenzie

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

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

Carer Videos

Carer Support Transitioning to managing on your own – Gloucestershire Carers Hub

A Creative Carers story-Anne – Carers Oxfordshire

Northamptonshire Carers – Episode 5 – Dementia

Latest Carer News

Caring for carers – Blog on NHS and Carers

Should you be doing more to support employees balancing carer responsibilities?

Letter from Minister of State for Social Care – Gov

Unpaid carers: ‘I had to choose to care for my husband or my sister‘

Caring for the Caregivers: The Critical Link Between Parent and Teen Mental Health – Harvard University

Triangle of Care accreditation shows we value carers – Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust.

National Organisation updates

Current Lived Experience Advisor Roles – Carers Trust

State of Caring Survey 2023 – Carers UK

Give feedback on care – CQC

Carer Research Papers

Online Education and Cognitive Behavior Therapy Improve Dementia Caregivers’ Mental Health: A Randomized Trial.

The impact of having a carer on adult health and social care utilisation across five settings of care: A matched cohort study

Diversity ethnic Mental health news updates

NELFT launches Patient and Carer Race Equality Framework

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

Exploring the relationship between mental health and dialect use among Chinese older adults

South Asian Heritage Month – Birmingham and Solihull NHS FT

June Monthly Carer & Health News Updates 2023

Latest carer and mental health news for June by carer activist and author Matthew McKenzie

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

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

Carer Videos

Carers Week: Lambeth Young Carers

Carers Week – Lanakshire Carers

Carers Week 2023 Wrap Up and Thank You! – Solihull Carers

Latest Carer News

Thousands of deprived unpaid carers in south east London

UK Gov announces cross-government action to support carers

Rapid review into data on mental health inpatient settings: final report and recommendations

Why are Lasting Powers of Attorney important to unpaid carers?

Carer’s Leave – the new law explained

State of Caring conference 2023 – Carers UK

NHS Long Term Workforce Plan

Other news updates

Cancer – NHS England

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

Greater Manchester black patients 3 times as likely to be detained

Macmillan Cancer Support – Carers Week

Caring for someone with a terminal illness

Allied Health Professions Strategy for England Easy Read Version

May Carer & Mental Health News Updates 2023

Latest carer and mental health news for May by carer activist and author Matthew McKenzie

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

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

Write to your MP – Carers Week – Stop asking your MP about potholes in the road, ask them something about the state of social care.

Carers’ Assessments webinar 16 May 2023 – Carers UK webinar on Carers Assessments

Somerset Carers Week 2023 – Somerset Carers centre promotion of Carers Week 2023

Northamptonshire Carers Podcast Episode 3 – Spring is in the air – Podcast about the caring and unpaid carers.

Carers Trust Heart of England once again awarded Coventry young carers contract – Well done Carers Trust Heart of England

Right to unpaid leave for carers set to become law – Splended campaign from Wendy Chamberlin.

Richmond Carer’s Centre – Supporting young carers – Richond carers campaign.

Give feedback on care – CQC – Important to give to CQC if you are a carer

Facilitators’guide: NHS@75 – Guide to help explain NHS England;s campaign

POhWER – Got a complaint? Need an Advocate? PohWER can help

RESEARCH PAPERS

Caregiver wellbeing during Covid-19: does being hopeful play a role? – Paper written by Juliana Onwumere, Elizabeth Kuipers, Emilie Wildman, Ava Mason, Daniel Stahl

Family intervention for psychosis: Impact of training on clinicians’ attitudes, knowledge and behaviour – Paper written by Jacqueline Sin, Steven Livingstone, Maria Griffiths, Catherine Gamble

In one’s own time: Contesting the temporality and linearity of bereavement – Paper done by Katherine Kenny, Alex Broom, Emma Kirby and Damien Ridge

Diversity BAME Mental health news updates

  1. Carers UK  good practice briefing for supporting Black, Asian and minority ethnic carers
  2. Caring for the carers: ITV Meridian presenter Sangeeta Bhabra’s letter to her younger self
  3. Black, Asian And Ethnically Diverse Carers – Carers Manchester

March Carer & Mental Health News Updates 2023

Latest carer and mental health news for March by carer activist and author Matthew McKenzie

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

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

Swindon Carers Centre – Young Carers Action Day 2023 – Video of Swindon Young carers Action day 2023

Northamptonshire Carers Podcast – Podcast of Mark Major CEO of Northamptonshire Carers talking about the growth and success over the last 30 years

“Important step” for Carer’s Leave Bill as it passes Second Reading in House of Lords – Carers UK has campaign to get carers a right to Carer’s Leave

Supporting Oxfordshire’s army of unpaid carers – Oxfordshire County Council to develop a new all-age unpaid carers strategy by a process known as coproduction.

Surrey County Cricket Club and Carers Trust have join forces

Lambeth: New young carers card design competition – A young person has won the ‘Lambeth Young Carers Card Design Competition’ run by Brixton based independent charity Carers’ Hub Lambeth.

Cygnet North West Regional Carers Network Event – Blog of Cygnet Carers event.

Bromley Carers Strategy Survey 2023 – Bromley Council is developing its Carers Strategy and want the views and experiences of unpaid carers to inform the content of the strategy.

Carers Trust marks 50 years of caring for carers at special Old Bailey reception – Carers Trust held an event tonight in the Grand Hall of London’s Old Bailey to mark fifty years since the setting up of the UK’s first ever carer organisation

Carers and Hospital Discharge Toolkit for London Hospitals and Community Providers – Toolkit to help providers improve the experience of carers during hospital discharge.

Give feedback on care – CQC – Person you care for using a service? Give feedback here.

Cost of cancer is damaging mental health – A new survey has found that 83% of people with cancer say unexpected expenses since their cancer diagnosis are impacting their mental health.

Kingston University students share insight and tips for Young Carers Action Day

Mental Health foundation – Racism and mental health – Blog about racism and mental health from Mark Rowland, Chief Executive of the Mental Health Foundation

February Carer & Mental Health News Updates 2023

Latest carer and mental health news for February by carer activist and author Matthew McKenzie

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

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

Unpaid Carers in the Workplace – Debbie Hustings – Webinar from Crossroads Surrey on unpaid carers in the workplace.

Carer’s Leave Bill – House of Commons Debate – Gagan Mohindra

Carer Story 4 – Never thought it could be me – Video dramatization of matthew’s carer stories.

The carer network – Matthew McKenzie’s carer network poem

Upcoming events for carers, family members and friends of patients – West London NHS Trust

88 charities form coalition to campaign on unpaid care

Time to Talk – Support for people with dementia and their carers

Carers Trust – Young Carers Pledge

Carers UK Supporting Black, Asian and minority ethnic carers

New racism targets introduced for hospitals just as NHS scraps top race roles

LGBT+ History Month, the GOsC and me

RCSLT news February 2023: prescribing campaign, anti-racism report, and updates from around the UK

Mental Health Nurses Day 2023

New Mental Health Crisis Services launching in south east London

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