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RCGP to help GPs support carers
The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) has been awarded more than £380,000 from the Department of Health to develop a unique online information ‘hub’ to help GPs improve the support and services they provide for carers.
Ingrid Torjesen
Wednesday, 5 March 2014
The hub will collate all the information GPs, primary healthcare staff, practice teams, commissioners and Health & Wellbeing Board representatives might need to identify and support carers, bringing together RCGP resources from the RCGP Supporting Carers in General Practice programme, as well as signposting to external resources.
The hub will have information about the needs of carers, right from the initial diagnosis of the person they are caring for through to resolution of the condition or end of life, with a focus on depression. It will also offer guidance about what questions to ask carers, what rights they have and what support is available. The aim is to link a range of supplementary resources on disease specific conditions including dementia, end of life care, cancer and mental health.
'My legacy will be a celebration of NHS care'
Dr Kate Granger, a hospital registrar with an incurable cancer and months to live, will today present nursing awards in her honour
When Dr Kate Granger, a 32-year-old junior doctor specialising in elderly medicine, found herself on a gurney with a kidney infection in a Leeds NHS hospital last August, she couldn’t help noticing that, professional though the staff were, not all of them seemed to remember they were dealing with real people rather than anonymous patients.
“As I looked around the emergency department,” she explains in her soft Yorkshire accent, “I was struck how, for the most part, not one of the doctors or nurses or support staff introduced themselves. But when they did, it made such a difference to the person who was there to receive care.”
Would you put your life on hold to care for an ex who fell ill?
Rachel did – for the husband she divorced 11 years ago. Odd? No, she says it’s her duty
- Rachel Adriano, 67, looks after her ex-husband who has terminal cancer
- She divorced from Andy after 38 years
- Rachel takes him to hospital and was there to call an ambulance when needed
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For the first seven years after their divorce, relations between Rachel Adriano and her ex-husband were cordial but a little wary.
They managed to avoid each other except at Christmas and family gatherings. As time passed they became, if not exactly strangers, then no more than polite acquaintances.
When they parted in 2003, Andy had a serious drink problem, which he has since overcome, and Rachel felt that their 38-year-old marriage had sputtered to a natural end.
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