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Under the radar

Why young carers miss out on the support they need

One evening, nurses at Whittington Health NHS Trust in London noticed an 11-year-old girl sitting with a patient – her mother – on an adult ward late at night. ‘She had been there all day and nobody had noticed,’ says Colette Datt. ‘She had no idea how to get home.’

Nursing Standard. 34, 8, 21-23. doi: 10.7748/ns.34.8.21.s12

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