Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has plans to introduce a strategic and clear delivery approach to identifying carers by the NHS across all its structures and delivery mechanisms so that it is identifying carers systematically and pro-actively.
The ‘People at the Heart of Care: Adult Social Care Reform White Paper’ addressed identifying unpaid carers through increasing the use of markers in National Health Service electronic health records by simplifying current approaches to data collection and registration.
On 17 October 2022, NHS England wrote to all general practitioner practices about the importance of identifying carers and advising how caring status should be recorded on patient records.