All carers
National Services
- Carers Direct
Part of the NHS Choices website, Carers Direct is a national service offering information, advice and support to carers.
You can contact the service in various ways:
Via the website at http://www.nhs.uk/carersdirect/Pages/CarersDirectHome.aspx
By ringing on 0808 802 0202. Calls are free from UK landlines or you can arrange a free callback. Lines are open 8am to 9pm Monday to Friday, 11am to 4pm at weekends.
By email using the on-line enquiry form on the website
- Carers UK
Carers UK’s website is an important resource for carers and has information, advice, campaigning news and carers’ forums. Its free telephone advice line is avaialble on Wednesdays and Thursdays 10am - 12noon and 2pm - 4pm on 0808 808 7777.
Lambeth services
- Lambeth Council
Lambeth Council's website http://www.lambeth.gov.uk/Services/HealthSocialCare/Carers/ has useful information about a range of local services for carers
- Crossroads Care - South Thames (formerly Lambeth Crossroads) leads the Lambeth Carers' Hub and provides a number of its services.
It also provides breaks for carers. It sends trained and experienced care attendants to carers' homes on a regular basis to care for ill or disabled adults or children so that the carer can have a break. Care attendants provide companionship, and personal care. They can also take the cared for person on outings from the home. The service is available 24 hours per day (including overnights) and every day of the week. There is a specialist palliative respite care service for carers of people with a terminal illness.
The service is free for people referred by social services or for the specialist palliative respite care service. Carers can also refer themselves and buy this service privately or using direct payments.
For further information contact Barbara Price, CEO
Tel: 020 8671 6188
email: lambeth@souththamescrossroads.org
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