A carer emergency plan, also known as a Carer Contingency Plan, ensures that the person you care for will continue to receive care if you are suddenly and temporarily unavailable. An emergency situation could be an unexpected childcare issue, a period of illness, travel disruption, or even a stay in hospital. No matter what the cause, if you're unable to be there to care, your emergency plan ensures you’ve got it covered.
We know that many carers have yet to make an emergency plan. Whether you’ve been meaning to start one but haven’t found the time, or maybe hadn’t considered that you might need an emergency plan in place before today, now is the time to get it sorted. Equally, if you’ve already got a plan in place, it’s a good idea to check it regularly to make sure it’s up to date – and the emergency plan pack can help you with that.
Writing an emergency plan is straight forward. Whether you’d like advice on where to start or need help on how to improve your existing plan, we are here to support you.
The sooner you have your plan in place, the more confident you’ll feel knowing that should the worst happen, you’ve already planned for the best.
We have created a handy emergency plan download – to help you to write your plan. The download makes planning easy by guiding you through the things you may need to think about to ensure the person you care for continues to receive support in your absence.
Carers tell us they find it helpful to store their plan in an easily accessible place such as on a noticeboard or a fridge door so if someone needs it, they have no trouble finding it.
You can also let your GP know you have an emergency plan. This will be added to your GP patient record in case of an emergency. You can include contact details of a person who could provide cover in the event you can’t provide care.
What are SNOMED codes?
SNOMED codes are used on electronic records by healthcare practitioners as way to identify and support patients. There are SNOMED codes for a patient who themselves provide care, a person who is a carer, a child providing informal care and carer has a carer contingency/emergency plan.