Training for Professionals
Carers Scotland's next training event on Self Directed Support for professionals will be held on 28 June 2012 in Glasgow. For more information or to book your place, click here.
Carers Summit
Carers Scotland's annual carers summit will be held on Monday 22 October 2012 in Edinburgh. More information will be available shortly in our conferences and events section.
National Open Meeting to discuss draft SIGN guideline on chronic pain
SIGN (The Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network) develop guidelines for practitioners in Scotland. The will be consulting with carers, patients and professionals at an open meeting on 12 December 2012 in Edinburgh to find out your views on the treatment of chronic pain. Click here to find out more.
12 December 2012, Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh
The Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) develops evidence based clinical practice guidelines for NHS Scotland.
Date for your diary
Carers Scotland's annual carers summit will be held on Monday 22 October 2012 in Edinburgh. More details will follow shortly.
The national carer organisations submitted a joint statement on the Social Care (Self Directed Support) (Scotland) Bill at Stage 1. The statement outlines our collective welcome to the Bill and areas where it could be strengtened to better recognise and support carers.
The national carer organisations are the following organisations:Carers Scotland, Coalition of Carers in Scotland, Crossroads Caring Scotland, MECOPP, The Princess Royal Trust for Carers in Scotland (part of Carers Trust), Scottish Young Carers Services Alliance and Shared Care Scotland.
We believe we can deliver more for carers by working together to share our knowledge and experience, and by focusing our collective efforts on achieving improvements in areas of policy and practice that are of greatest concern to carers. It is our shared vision that all Scotland’s unpaid carers will feel valued, included and supported as equal partners in the provision of care.
On 17 October 2011, the Scottish Government announced a review of NHS pharmaceutical care to patients in the community across Scotland.
The Scottish Government wants the review to be wide-ranging to enhance the role of pharmacists and encourage closer working with GPs and other community based services, including the third sector. It will examine the pharmaceutical needs of patients and the NHS and the arrangements for providing NHS Pharmaceutical Care Services across Scotland in order to ensure that they are fit for the future of healthcare in Scotland.
Central to the review is how NHS pharmaceutical care can best contribute to the ambitions set out in the Healthcare Quality Strategy for Scotland - care that is person-centred, safe and effective every time.
A survey for carers, people with long term conditions and third sector organisations to make their views known about the Review of NHS Pharmaceutical Care of Patients in the Community is now available.
Carers Scotland would urge carers to take part and make their views known.
Click here to find out more on the Long Term Conditions Alliance Scotland website
Closing date - 1 June 2012.
Carers Scotland's highly regarded self directed support training course is being offered on 28 June 2012. Book now to avoid disappointment.
Read Carers Scotland's response to the Allied Health Professionals National Delivery Plan: A Consultation
Read Carers Scotland's response to Stage 1 of the Social Care (Self Directed Support) (Scotland) Bill
Read Carers Scotland's response to Stage 1 considerations of the Welfare Reform (Further Provisions) (Scotland) Bill as introduced to the Scottish Parliament on 22 March 2012
Report from almost 1000 carers identifies most important theme for debate at Scotland's first Carers Parliament.
