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We help people in north east Essex face incurable illness and bereavement, supporting them, their families, friends and carers.

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My Care Choices

At St Helena, we empower people to plan ahead, share their choices and achieve their wishes; enabling them to die well with dignity and choice in their preferred place of care.

We work with other local health and social care partners to promote the My Care Choices Record, a document where people who are living with an incurable illness, dementia or frailty can record and share their choices for future care, including end of life care.

Once the record has been filled out, consent can be given for the person’s GP to record their choices on the My Care Choices Register. 

The My Care Choices Register is an electronic record of a person’s decisions about the kind of care they wish to receive in the future if they were more unwell and their preference for the place of care at end of life.

It is held online and can be accessed securely only by staff responsible for their care, such as GPs, community nurses, hospital staff, ambulance services, and St Helena, who host the register. They can access it any hour of the day or night, so people can be confident that everyone looking after them knows the care they want.

Who can join the register?

The My Care Choices Register is for those people in North Essex who are living with incurable illness, dementia or frailty and who wish to record their priorities for future care.

Why forward planning is important

  • Peace of mind
  • Enables healthcare professionals to understand how you wish to be cared for

The My Care Choices Register is a record of a person’s decisions about the kind of care they wish to receive in the future if they were more unwell, and their preference for the place of care.

It is held online and can be accessed securely only by staff responsible for their care, such as the GP, community nurses, hospital staff, ambulance services, and St Helena which hosts the register. It can be accessed any hour of the day or night, so people can be confident that everyone looking after them knows the care they want.

background-image Pete Buchanan, partner of someone supported by St Helena

"Neil had put an Advance Care Plan in place while he was perfectly healthy; all the things he wanted, his preferred priorities of care. And he’d spoken to our St Helena community nurse about the My Care Choices Register. All of that was in place. It made it a bit easier because those difficult conversations had already been had when he was well enough to talk about it."

- Pete Buchanan, partner of someone supported by St Helena

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You can get a printed record from your GP and they can help you to complete it.

However, if you would like to print out or fill in your own record digitally, please click on the link below.

Download the My Care Choices Record in English Download the My Care Choices Record in Bengali Download the My Care Choices Record in Kurdish Sorani Download the My Care Choices Record in Nepali Download the My Care Choices Record in Persian Download the My Care Choices Record in Ukranian
A thumbnail image of the front cover of the My Care Choices Record

You may be wondering what sort of information you could include in your record. Click on the link below to view Edna's record. Edna is not a real person but it should give you an example of what sort of information you might want to include in your own.

View Edna's My Care Choices record

Easy Read version

The My Care Choices Record has also been translated into Easy Read. This can be downloaded below.

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View the My Care Choices Register privacy policy

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