Current consultations

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 […]

At Caring Together we work to ensure the existing rights of carers are recognised and acted on, and to bring carers rights and support in line with the realities of carers needs. There are currently three important consultations underway: – The Children’s Commissioner for England’s Family Review – The House of Lords Adult Social Care […]

Would you be willing to appear in a video talking about your experiences as a carer? The NHS foundation trust that runs Peterborough City Hospital, Hinchingbrooke Hospital and Stamford and Rutland Hospital would like to produce a video to raise awareness of the role of carers with staff. They plan to use the video during […]

At Caring Together, we are putting together new resources and carer awareness-raising sessions for health professionals such as hospital staff, mental health workers, and GPs, so we want to carers to help us. We want to know from carers what they think health professionals need to know when it comes to carers. We also want […]

You are invited to join the Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) Carers’ Working Group which meets online via Zoom every other month, for an hour between 9.00am and 5.00pm. The group which consists of CUH staff (some of whom are also carers, representatives from carers’ support organisation such as Caring Together, and carers. You will have […]

Are you interested in being a part of research? NIHR Cambridge BRC  has the following free online information sessions and webinar for patients, carers and members of the public. Turning Science into Medicine! (webinar) – Thursday 31 March, 7.30pm to 8.45pm Can gene therapy reverse hereditary blindness? Can a drug used for cancer help heart-attack […]

Do you have a passion for improving health and care? Do you want to put your personal experience as a patient, or a family member or friend of a patient to good use? The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Adopting Innovation Hub is looking for people to join a new Citizen Participation Group. The Citizen Participation Group […]

Have you used any of our carer support services? Would you be willing to give some feedback about your experience over sandwiches and cake? Have you been to any of our hubs? Or maybe you’ve been on one of our trips or been to a learning session? Or it could be you used your What […]

Whatever your role as a carer, we want to hear from you. We want to have carers of all ages, and from all parts of the community involved in our new carer council. The council has been set up to ensure the voice of carers is heard throughout the work of Caring Together. Chair of […]

Cambridge University Hospital NHS Trust (CUH) are looking for current and past cancer patients and carers to join a new Cancer Patient Network. The network will be involved in the project to develop a new Cancer Research Hospital on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus. CUH has had a Cancer Patient Partnership Group (CPPG) for 10 years […]