Supporting families and carers

urses know more than anyone in health care the importance of involving families and (informal) carers in all aspects of caregiving from assessment, planning and evaluation of care to partnership working. With the rising numbers of carers in UK society we know that approximately one in ten of the UK population are unpaid carers supporting a friend or family member. More specifically, according to the 2011 census, there were 5.41 million unpaid carers in England, and 0.37 million in Wales, which equates