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Find carers and make sure support follows
Ask about caring responsibilities in everyday language and make sure an agreed offer of help reaches the person.
What you’ll have at the end
A short question staff can use and a way to track the follow-up.
How to begin
- Sample current records to understand how caring responsibilities are recorded and whether a support offer follows. Agree how stale information is checked.
- Ask about unpaid help in everyday language rather than relying on Are you a carer? Add one prompt to an existing encounter and offer paper or telephone alternatives.
- Confirm the person’s wishes before recording details. Offer a confidential conversation away from the person they support.
- Create a structured task for the next agreed action: information, a local carer-service contact or advice about a local-authority carer’s assessment. Record acceptance or decline.
- Review a small weekly sample for missed actions. Ask whether information was useful and accessible, and revise the workflow before expansion.
What to measure
- Outcome: identified carers receiving their agreed next step.
- Process: support offers documented.
- Balancing: duplicate invitations, workload and unwanted disclosure.
Before using real data
A practice questionnaire is not a statutory carer’s assessment. NICE NG150 concerns adult carers of people aged 16 or over; young-carer and child-care pathways need separate arrangements. Do not assume permission to share between linked records.
Agree scope, data handling, supervision and escalation with your practice. Use approved systems. Do not upload patient information to this website or a public AI tool.