11 March 2021

CNWL is here for carers.  

Our Check in & Chat service, initially launched in May 2020, provides support to carers or anyone who uses our services and is experiencing loneliness and isolation through the pandemic.

It will offer eight calls over eight weeks by volunteer Chatters for unpaid (friend or family) carers of CNWL service users to reduce the health-harming impacts of loneliness and isolation, provide informal support and encourage networking with community resources.

Unfortunately, the service cannot accept referrals who will be closed imminently by the referring team or any self-referrals.

Chatters will signpost to services or support within the local community and where relevant raise any concerns with the referring service.

If you think the unpaid carer of someone you provide care for may benefit from accessing Check in & Chat, please complete this referral form and send to cnwl.check-inandchat@nhs.net

Examples of the sorts of people we can help are in an article in MyLondonNews entitled: Carers struggling to cope during the pandemic, which you can find through Google.