Bereavement Project Resources toolkit

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Inspired by a hospice-led project, set up to support hospice bereavement services adapting to new ways of working, we are bringing together resources to share our learning and to help other hospices as they continue to adapt their services.



Please note: this is not an exhaustive guide.

Education Network Meeting Resources

How the training was presented

Training took the form of facilitated webinars, followed by peer to peer learning through ECHO sessions and one to one sessions.

The key themes covered by this training were:

    - Grieving and grief support during the      

      Coronavirus pandemic

    - Bringing bereavement support services    

      online

    - Self-care

    - Children and bereavement

    - Introduction to Quality Improvement (QI)

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Grief support during COVID-19

This page looks at the difference that Covid 19 has made to death, dying and bereavement support and the importance of the voice of a person with experience.
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Bringing bereavement services online

What was required when bringing services online? See how to review your service through and beyond COVID-19.
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Self-care webinar

How has working from home affected staff? We discuss the positive and negative sides of resilience and what staff and employers can do to ensure their own wellbeing.
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Introduction to Quality Improvement

A systematic quality improvement approach benefits hospices and all palliative care organisations. These presentations show the benefit of embedding QI into any project.
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Bereavement resources

We all experience bereavement at some point, leaving many feeling vulnerable. However grief and loss are completely normal experiences, a part of life.
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Story of the Bereavement Project

The successes and learnings from the Hospice UK Bereavement Project, Mind the grief gap, were presented at the Hospice UK National Conference in November 2021. The project is desig...
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Children and bereavement

This page gives an overview of children and bereavement including the ways in which children grieve and how they differ from adults.
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Useful links

The content and views expressed by the following organisations do not represent the views of Hospice UK.

National Bereavement Alliance

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Childhood Bereavement Network

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Online knowledge sharing for health professionals

What is Project ECHO?

Sign up to Hospice UK's National Conference 2022

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Join Project ECHO

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Courses, conferences and learning events

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Dying Matters

Hospice UK’s Dying Matters campaign is working with you to create an open culture in which we’re comfortable talking about death, dying and grief.

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