Carers Advice

Are you a Carer?

Please get in touch with us to let us know. We can help by:

  • ensuring that appointments are accessible to carers who would otherwise struggle to attend due to their caring role.
  • where appropriate, support the sharing of medical information of a cared for persons’ condition to allow the carer to effectively manage their health and social care needs at home.
  • providing effective information about and signposting to carers support services
  • raise awareness with GP and practice staff that someone is a carer for consideration during consultations.
  • ensuring that outpatient appointments and admission letters give information that the patient is a carer.

Support Services

Carlisle Carers provides an invaluable service for Carers – check out their website: https://www.carlislecarers.com/

Additional services and agencies to which carers can be signposted are:  

Further support is also available from www.carersweek.org.

Spencer Street Surgery – Carer Poster

If you’re a Carer who helps and supports someone who can’t manage on their own, we want to ensure YOU get all the support YOU need

Are you caring for your husband/wife/partner, son/daughter, mother/father or a relative/friend/neighbour with an illness disability or who suffers from a substance misuse, or someone who could not otherwise manage on their own at home?

Carlisle Carers Association are running a project to increase awareness of their services. They can help you with:

  • Advocacy
  • Benefits/Carers’ allowance assessments
  • Carers Assessments
  • Counselling
  • Employment Support
  • Family Support
  • Information & Signposting
  • One-to-one Support
  • Respite Sitters
  • Therapeutic Treatments
  • Volunteer drivers
  • Young Carers Support

Please inform your doctor/nurse or other member of surgery staff that you are caring for someone or complete the online form (a paper form is available at Reception).

For more Information please contact:

Carlisle Carers,
Fusehill Medical Centre,
Carlisle,
CA1 2HE

Tel: (01228) 542156

Non-urgent advice: Carers UK

They’re here to make sure that no matter how complicated your query or your experience, you don’t have to care alone.

Website: www.carersuk.org

Telephone: 020 7378 4999