Young Carers

Lord Cormack Excerpts
Thursday 23rd March 2017

(7 years, 10 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Nash Portrait Lord Nash
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I agree entirely with the noble Baroness on child bereavement. I suffered from that myself and share the sympathy that she expresses.

Lord Cormack Portrait Lord Cormack (Con)
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My Lords, further to the point made by the noble Baroness, Lady Thomas, do general practitioners as a matter of course annotate their records where there is a child carer looking after a patient?

Lord Nash Portrait Lord Nash
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I am afraid that I do not know the answer to that question but I shall talk to the Department of Health and write to my noble friend.