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National Bereavement Care Pathway
- Allied health
- Comfort and nursing care
- Communicating with families
- Families and professional practice
- Family-integrated care
- Medical
- Nursing
- Palliative and end-of-life care
Summary
The National Bereavement Care Pathway is a UK improvement programme, led by Sands, that aims to ensure all bereaved parents and families receive consistently high-quality, compassionate and personalised care. It provides five pathways covering miscarriage, termination of pregnancy for fetal anomaly, stillbirth, neonatal death and sudden unexpected death in infancy. It combines practical guidance for professionals with standards of care, culture and behaviour. Themes include bereavement rooms, memory-making and referral for timely emotional and psychological support.
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