Carers voice Carers Voice is a county-wide organisation, working with Healthwatch Northamptonshire, aiming to improve the services available to Carers by seeking Carers views and opinions and making sure they get heard. Expand Carers Voice needs your support Carers Voice aims to improve the services available to carers by seeking carers’ views and opinions and making sure they get heard. By joining Carers Voice you can share your own experiences with other carers, learn more about what support for carers is available, and raise any concerns or issues you have as a carer. We are a county-wide organisation and feed back our members’ views to the Carers Partnership, where they can influence the planning and provision of carers’ support services for the future. If you look after someone now or if you did in the past, no matter how much, how often, or for how long, we can help you get your voice heard, and work towards getting carers a better deal. Working closely with Healthwatch Northamptonshire we want to know what areas you believe need improvement. We rely upon a community of carers that we can reach electronically with short questionnaires that are appropriate to their particular experiences of care. The more members we have, the louder our voice and the further it carries. If you want to help and have an email address through which we can reach you please send your name and contact e-mail to Natasha Mansukhani: [email protected] or phone 07856 875132 Carers Voice meet every month to discuss any current issues that affect Carers on both a local and national level in a safe and supported environment. Our Members include Carers looking after someone with any form of disability, long term illness or who is frail/elderly and from all age groups. New members are always welcome. Usually meet on the second Thursday of month (except December) 10.30am - 12.30pm. Northamptonshire Carers, 123 Midland Road, Wellingborough, NN8 1LU. 9th May 2019 12th September 2019 13th June 2019 10th October 2019 11th July 2019 14th November 2019 8th August 2019 A leaflet can be found here
Patients opinion Expand Patient Opinion An independent organisation called Patient Opinion runs a national website where service users and Carers can post stories, comments, feedback and compliments about health services. Please help shape services by leaving your comments, good and bad. Although this is a national website the feedback goes to the local health service provider.
Parent Carers forum Expand Northants Parent Forum Group (NPFG) The NPFG enables parents looking after children with additional needs to get involved in service planning and decision making so that services meet the needs of families and resources are not wasted on services which parents and families do not take up. Meetings are arranged in Northamptonshire or parent support groups visited to discuss issues around service provision and implementation. Please contact them directly for further details.
Carers partnership Expand The Carers Partnership is a network for anyone who provides a service for Carers in Northamptonshire, both statutory and voluntary sector organisations or anyone with an interest in Carers, including Carers and former-Carers themselves. Members include Age UK, Alzheimer’s Society, Carers Trust East Midlands, Nene Valley Community Action, Family Support Link, Serve, Northamptonshire County Council, NHS and Hospital representation, Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust and others as well as ourselves. We meet on a monthly basis at our offices, chaired by our CEO. One of our main aims is to monitor the progress of the County Council Carers Strategy and it's action plan as well as looking at service provision in general to see how we can best serve the Carers of Northamptonshire. 2017 meeting dates Weds 8th February 1.30-3.30pm Weds 15th March 1.00-3.00pm Weds 26th April 1.00-3.00pm Weds 17th May 1.00-3.00pm Weds 21st June 1.00-3.00pm Weds 19th July 1.00-3.00pm Weds 20th September 1.00-3.00pm Weds 18th October 1.00-3.00pm Weds 15th November 1.00-3.00pm Weds 13th December 1.00-3.00pm Meetings held at Northamptonshire Carers, 123 Midland Road, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, NN8 1LU. Dates and venue Subject to change. If you would like to attend the meetings as a one off or on a regular basis or just receive the minutes and information form the Carers Partnership Meetings, please contact us on 01933 677837 or [email protected]
Carers consultation Expand Organisations such as the County Council or NHS ask for the feedback from Carers or the people they care for as part of a consultation. We will post details here as they are announced. If you are interested in such consultations, then Healthwatch are a useful organisation.