Current consultations

We have called upon MPs to support an upcoming Carer’s Leave Bill which would ease some of the huge pressures on people trying to balance looking after a family member or friend, while also being in paid employment. We support 17,000 carers and their families across Cambridgeshire, Peterborough and Norfolk. And last week we wrote […]

Cambridge University Hospitals (CUHs) invite patients and carers to join an outpatients listening session on Wednesday 14 September from 12:00pm – 1.30pm via Zoom. During the session, they would like to learn about your experiences of the hospital’s outpatients department – what’s going well, what’s not going so well and what can be done for […]

A team of researchers from NIHR School for Social Research, University of Portsmouth, Queen Mary University of London and King’s College London are inviting you to participate in a research study on how homecare workers help with mouth and teeth care. The researchers are keen to talk family carers about the mouth and teeth care […]

Norfolk and Waveney ICS is a new partnership of local health and care organisations working to improve the health, wellbeing and care of people living in Norfolk and Waveney. As part of the new partnership a Digital Transformation Roadmap is being developed. Digital transformation is about making step-change improvements of operations and services using digital […]

Dementia Carers Count are inviting people to take part in their survey. If you offer, or have offered, help and support to a friend or family member living with dementia, they want to hear from you. They are keen to understand what pressures you face in your caring role, this well help them shape the services […]

You are invited to the Healthwatch in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough’s health and care summit event this summer. The free event is on Thursday 7 July, 10.00am to 3.00pm at the KingsGate Centre, 2 Staplee Way, Parnwell, Peterborough, PE1 4YT This year the spotlight is on equal access to health and care services and on the big […]

Cambridgeshire County Council and Peterborough City Council are refreshing the county’s all-age carers strategy, which looks at what support unpaid carers need. They are really keen for carers to be at the heart of this process. If you would like to be involved with helping them with this, they have an online co-production workshop on […]

Researchers at the University of Manchester are keen to hear your experiences of supporting a family member during the COVID-19 pandemic. They are inviting you to take part in an anonymous survey which can be sent to you through the post or it can be completed online. If you are interested in taking part in […]

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG) are keen to hear your views on what stops people with dementia symptom accessing Memory Assessment Services. The CCG are working with The Behavioural Insights Team to explore how they can improve access to Memory Assessment Services. Your feedback will help develop solutions so that more people can […]

With Carers Week on the way from 6 – 12 June, Carers UK and six other UK national charities (Age UK, Carers Trust, MND Association, Rethink Mental Illness, Oxfam GB and The Lewy Body Society), are calling for the UK Government to publish a recovery and respite plan for unpaid carers. They want this to […]