{"id":1747,"date":"2015-10-22T13:20:27","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T13:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scotland.gov.uk\/health-and-social-care-integration\/?p=1747"},"modified":"2018-03-09T15:23:23","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T15:23:23","slug":"carers-caring-and-care-services-we-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/health-social-care\/2015\/10\/22\/carers-caring-and-care-services-we-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Carers, Caring and Care Services \u2013 We Care!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since launching the fresh new\u00a0Care Information Scotland (CIS)\u00a0Service<\/a>\u00a0in June this year the Partnership and Engagement team at NHS 24 have been busy working with our partners and stakeholders to promote the benefits of the service.<\/p>\n

For those who look after someone, need care themselves or are planning for future care needs, this re-designed service now serves as a national multi-channel resource allowing people access to comprehensive, accurate and up-to-date information and signposting.<\/p>\n

As we now support young carers (under 18) and young adult carers (18-25), a real focus of our work has been identifying ways to engage better and promote the service to young people and of course anyone or agency who plays a critical role with these age groups.<\/p>\n

Over the last few months\u00a0we have been able to take advantage of our existing relationships with many of the further and higher education institutions to attend Freshers’ events and distribute resources and information about the redesigned CIS service across Scotland.<\/p>\n

Not only have we had the opportunity to speak to hundreds of students and not forgetting, staff who are carers, we have also taken the opportunity to promote these services to staff and students involved in courses such as:<\/p>\n