Caring & Living Life in Lockdown
Sharon Grocock - Unpaid carer and Peer Support Lead - Working Age Dementia Service (WAD) My role as a Peer Support Lead at Nottinghamshire Healthcare and my own experiences of...
John & Christopher Lockdown Life & ‘Losing It’
John is an unpaid carer and uses his lived experience as an Involvement Volunteer at Nottinghamshire Healthcare Trust. He looks after his son Christopher. Through January and February 2020 Channel 4 broadcast a...
Virtual Social Visitor Event June 2020 Rampton Hospital
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the first virtual social visitors event took place on 13 June 2020 during Carers Week. Lorna Breckell, Family & Volunteer Support Manager shares her recollections of...
‘Try not to leave us behind’
Following his late wife Tina’s diagnosis of dementia in 2003, Jim Radburn ‘worked tirelessly’ to lobby, gain funding and set up a self-help group run by and for carers. Carers in...
Family Carers – Things to Do with your relative at home during Covid-19
http://napa-activities.co.uk/ Sharon Grocock -Peer Support Lead and Carer from our Trust Working Age Dementia service shared this huge (and brilliant) list of activities with us from The National Activity Providers...
Coronavirus – what a shock!
Patients and Staff at Rampton Hospital were asked to reflect on what life is like for them at the moment. Amidst the national pandemic and how the government guidance as...
Life in Lockdown- Thoughts from a relative of a Rampton Hospital patient
Social Visits to Rampton High Secure Hospital remain suspended until further notice. On 13 June, 2020, the first Virtual Carers and Families event took place via MS Teams. New ways to...
The Not so New Normal
‘Patients and Staff at Rampton Hospital were asked to reflect on what life is like for them at the moment. Amidst the national pandemic and how the government guidance as...
Hello, my name is Amanda
Hello, my name is Amanda. I'm a carer. Hello My Name is Amanda Most of my life I have had mental health issues and often put others first. When I moved into a flat...
‘Can I just say a few words about our wonderful carers’.
by Nigel Groves Involvement & Experience Lead Forensic Services At Nottinghamshire Healthcare we are blessed in the fact that a great many carers are involved in not only supporting their...