End of life and palliative care toolkit

A range of bereavement resources aimed to help general practice provide information and signposting to bereaved patients and families.

In partnership with Marie Curie:

Supporting your patient through loss (animation): overview guide for practices on tips to strengthen bereavement support. These include supporting bereaved people to ask for help from the practice if they need additional support, giving a compassionate bereavement response, signposting to support information and services and using consistent coding to help trigger potential condolence contact and sharing information on how to reach support in the community.

The Grief Support Guide provides information on the variety of bereavement support that is available in the UK, from self-help resources and helplines to peer support groups and grief counselling. The Guide also includes details of support for specific groups of bereaved people, e.g., widow(er)s, children, cultural and faith groups and people bereaved by particular types of death.

The free guide can be downloaded at: www.nationalbereavementalliance.org.uk/support

In partnership with Cruse Bereavement Support:

• VBA, very brief advice framework for GPs to provide a consistent and compassionate response to grieving patients - England, Wales, and NI (216 KB, PDF)
• VBA, very brief advice framework for GPs to provide a consistent and compassionate response to grieving patients - Scotland (532 KB, PDF)
• Animation explainer on VBA, Very Brief Advice framework for GP staff - A compassionate bereavement response (Cruse Bereavement Support YouTube channel)
• Looking for support after the loss of someone close?: a patient poster for GP waiting rooms across the UK, telling people how best to speak to their GP about grief they may be feeling - England, Wales, and NI (651 KB, PDF)
• Looking for support after the loss of someone close?: a patient poster for GP waiting rooms across the UK, telling people how best to speak to their GP about grief they may be feeling - Scotland (523 KB, PDF)

Sign up for free to the Daffodil Standards 

To assess how well your practice is supporting bereaved people and to make the most of using the above bereavement resources, read more about Daffodil Standard 7 - Care after Death.