AN ANDOVER-BASED charity has launched is looking for the heroes who help carers in their day-to-day lives.

The Princess Royal Trust for Carers in Hampshire, based at Andover War Memorial Hospital, alongside NHS Hampshire, Southampton and Isle of Wight Clinical Commissioning Group, has announced the launch of the GP Carer Awards.

These awards are to celebrate and recognise practice staff for the excellent work they do with unpaid family carers, and for a person or team considered by patients to have provided high quality, compassionate and individual patient care.

The charity is seeking out the incredible work being carried out daily by the NHS.

It believes GPs are the beating heart of patient care and primary care, and its awards aim to recognise the excellence, the efforts and the contributions that have been made to general practice.

SEE ALSO: Nominations now open for Hampshire Hospitals' Junior Doctors AwardsA spokesperson for the charity said: “This is now more poignant than ever. We know it has been challenging to strive for greatness, but equally challenging to operate surgeries with Covid-19 presenting so many difficulties to the healthcare community.

“For carers, this pandemic has seen them become more isolated than ever and, whilst looking after their own health and that of the person they care for, their GP has been vital to that.”

Nominations for the 2021/2022 awards are open now and will close on the April 18 2022.

The awards ceremony will take place at the end of April.

To nominate your GP or surgery please contact The Trust. For more information, please call 01264 835246 or email info@carercentre.com.

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