Health and social care needs survey: Young carers

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Summary of report content

Healthwatch County Durham conducted a Young Carers survey in November 2014.

The purpose of the visit was to find out the experiences of young carers and young adult carers when they accessed local health services, in order to identify whether services and professionals were meeting the needs of young carers.

Healthwatch County Durham asked 41 young carers 20 questions about their caring role and their experience of visiting their GP practice, pharmacist/chemist, hospital, dentist, optician and social services.

The report made ten conclusions based on young carer feedback including: that there needs to be better communication between services and more information for young people about what services of support are available in County Durham.

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General details

Local Healthwatch
Healthwatch County Durham
Publication date
Type of report
Patient experience
Key themes
Access to services
Written information, guidance and publicity
Caring, kindness, respect and dignity

Methodology and approach

Was the work undertaken in partnership with another organisation?
No
Primary research method used
Survey
If an Enter and View methodology was applied, was the visit announced or unannounced?
N/A

Details of health and care services included in the report

Details of health and care services included in the report
Pharmacy
Dentist
General Practice (GP)
Children's social care services
Emergency department (inc A&E)
Urgent primary care, including Urgent Treatment Centres, walk-in care, out of hours GP services, minor injury and treatment centres
Name of service provider
Health and Social Care Services

Details of people who shared their views

Number of people who shared their views
41
Age group
Not known
Gender
All
Ethnicity
All
Sexual orientation
Not known
Pregnancy/maternity
N/A
Does this report feature carers?
No
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