Carers Voice news

Carers’ Voice Northamptonshire was a county-wide organisation, working with Healthwatch North and West Northamptonshire, that aimed to improve the services available to Carers’ by seeking Carers’ views and opinions and making sure they get heard.

Carers’ Voice has now closed as carers’ matters are considered within other forums in the county.

If you would like to share feedback about health and care services, please contact Healthwatch North and West Northamptonshire.

If you need support or advice as carer, please contact Northamptonshire Carers.

Thank you to all our members and those who worked with us!

Forum for Disabled People

There is a free online event on 15th July 1:00pm until 2:00pm. Everyone is welcome, carers included via a carers ticket.

Wellbeing Creative Time for Disabled People

Join a free Teamwork Community Event by registing to attend Creative Wellbeing Time for Disabled People in Wellingborough & North Northants. It will be held at Tithe Barn, Wellingborough, NN81GD on 20th July, 2021 at 9:45am until 2:00pm.

About Carers Week

Carers Week is an annual campaign to raise awareness of caring, highlight the challenges unpaid carers face and recognise the contribution they make to families and communities throughout the UK. It also helps people who don’t think of themselves as having caring responsibilities to identify as carers and access much-needed support.

The campaign is brought to life by thousands of individuals and organisations who come together to provide support for carers, run activities and highlight the vital role carers play in our communities, drawing attention to just how important caring is.

[Read more…] about Carers Week 2021

NHS Northamptonshire Clinical Commissioning Group has been given some funding by NHS England to be spent on a SEND (Special Educational Needs and Disability) related project for children and young people. It has been agreed that this funding will be used to develop a Northamptonshire Health Passport for children and young people with SEND. There are a number of different hospital passports available in Northamptonshire and this is a good opportunity to bring them all together and create a single document which can be used for both Hospital admissions and Health appointments eg. GP, Dentist, Optician.

As part of the project they have arranged some participation and feedback activities with CYP, parents/carers and professionals to look at an existing example of a Health Passport from another area to provide information on what they would like the Northamptonshire version to look like. Children and young people are being invited to participate in a school-based feedback activity.

View an example of a Health Passport from Brent, Ealing and Harrow. This works well within the local area and it is being used as a starting point to create a version that works well within Northamptonshire.

The questionnaire will be live and open for responses until 30th April.

Carers’ Voice meetings are held on the second Thursday of each month, between 10.30 am to 12.30 pm. We are currently meeting online using Zoom until further notice.

Dates of meetings for 2021 are:
14th January
11th February
11th March
8th April
13th May
10th June
8th July
12th August
9th September
14th October
11th November

Please email carersvoice@connectedtogether.co.uk or phone 07856 875132 (please leave a message) to find out more.