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Pharmaceutical Marketing Society Adopts New Charity Supporting Britain's Carers
Medical News Today 2008 Nov 9
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/128624.php


Full text:

The Pharmaceutical Marketing Society is delighted to announce that it has adopted The Princess Royal Trust for Carers as its chosen charity for 2009 and 2010.

Created in 1991 on the initiative of The Princess Royal, the national charity was set up to recognise and support those people in the community who find themselves at home caring for family members, friends or neighbours with disabilities, addictions or chronic illnesses.

Today, the Trust is the biggest provider of comprehensive support services for carers in the UK and with its extensive network of independently managed carers’ centres, young carers’ services and interactive websites it continues to provide quality, user-friendly information, advice and support to nearly 354,000 carers and over 20,000 young carers.

Carole Cochrane, Acting Chief Executive at The Princess Royal Trust for Carers, commented: “We are absolutely delighted that the PM Society has chosen to support The Princess Royal Trust for Carers. The funds will help us to continue providing much-needed support to both adult and young carers across the UK. Thank you to all those people that nominated us and we look forward to working together over the next two years.”

It is important to note that unpaid carers are estimated to save the UK health and social care services £87 billion a year through caring at home, therefore if carers stopped tomorrow the system would totally collapse.

For more details on the Trust’s ongoing work log onto http://www.carers.org or http://www.youngcarers.net.

 

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