Bereavement

Report on a conference - ongoing projects in bereavement care in
hospices in the UK


Help the Hospices (a national organisation for hospice care in the UK) recently held their biennial conference in Harrogate. Two aspects of the conference are worth bringing to your attention.

Firstly:

There was a session on organisational challenges for today and tomorrow in delivering bereavement care. This was by Una Smale, Nikki Archer and Sharon Cornford.

Linda Machin delivered a presentation on service development: experiences of taking the “guidance for bereavement needs assessment” into practice.

Patsy Way delivered a talk on working with a young child in Candle, the child bereavement service at St Christopher’s Hospice.

These presentations are available by keying in the authors’ surname on the query box on this page:

http://www.helpthehospices.org.uk/our-services/running-your-hospice/education-training/2009conference/programme/


Secondly:

The following presentations were in poster form:

Promoting excellence in the training of bereavement volunteers
Hilary Minter, Hartlepool and District Hospice, Hartlepool
Ann French, University of Teeside, Middlesborough

Effective positive change with bereaved service users in a palliative care setting
Audrey Agnew, Marie Curie Cancer Care, Belfast
Joe Duffy, Department of Sociology, Queen’s University Belfast

COSTAL – adult group therapy programme following bereavement
Rebekah Clitherow, Susan Salt. Trinity Hospice and Palliative Care Services, Blackpool

Children and young people’s bereavement link project
Rebekah Clitherow, Susan Salt. Trinity Hospice and Palliative Care Services, Blackpool

Living with grief – a series of meetings for people who have been bereaved
Smale Una, Simon Spence, Highland Hospice, Inverness.

The conference took place in Novemberr 2009 at Harrogate Conference Centre. It is interesting to see some documentation on the variety of projects taking place in the UK in bereavement care.