Conversation with carers Posted or Updated on 5 Aug 2024

A conversation with carers: Access and support from Modern General Practice  

Your local NHS (Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board) is working with Healthwatch Essex, Action for Family Carers and Essex County Council to make it easier for unpaid carers to get the right help, in accordance with their needs, from their local GP practice and wider partners.

We would like to invite those who are unpaid carers, who live in West Essex, to join one of our carers’ conversation events in west Essex this August. These events will:

• give carers the opportunity to share their experiences of accessing support from their GP practice to help identify areas for improvement and to share good practice
• update carers on the changes that general practices have been making to better meet their needs
• provide information about the wider team of health and care professionals now supporting patients in GP practices. These include roles such as physiotherapists, paramedics and social prescribers who could be better placed to help carers quickly
• talk about the range of conditions and illnesses that community pharmacies can now diagnose and treat, enabling carers and the people they care for to get help and treatment quickly without needing to see their GP.

Details of the events are below:

In person event:

• When: Wednesday 7 August 2024, 9.30am to 11.30am
• Where: Latton Hall, Latton Bush Centre, Southern Way, Harlow, CM18 7BL

Online event:

• When: Thursday 8 August 2024, 7pm to 8.30pm
• Where: Online meeting via MS Teams – a link will be shared to attendees closer to the time

We do hope you can join us to be part of this important conversation and we look forward to welcoming you to one of the events. To register, please contact Heather Aylward (heather.aylward@nhs.net) Public Engagement Manager at NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board by end of the day Wednesday 31 July stating your name and which date you would like to attend. We will provide tea, coffee, and biscuits at our ‘in person’ event: please let us know about any allergies or dietary requirements.