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018 One Step Beyond: Working in partnership with CCGs to extend access to Bereavement Services
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  1. June Patel1,
  2. Sarah Popplestone Helm1 and
  3. Debbie Westwood2
  1. 1St Richards Hospice, Worcester, UK
  2. 2CAREWISE Worcestershire County Council
  3. 3AGE UK Worcester
  4. 4South Worcestershire Clinical Commissioning Group

Abstract

Aims The service aims to - Provide access to bereavement support for all bereaved people irrespective of age, culture disability and gender - Assess bereavement need and signpost people pre and post bereavement to bereavement services within their locality - Extend access to advice 24/7 supported by the development of a bespoke bereavement website www.bereavementsupportworcestershire.org.uk telephone help-line service, Counselling and Social Work support - Raise professional awareness about grief by providing bespoke education and training - Raise awareness of the bereavement process and coping strategies of bereaved individuals and families by education and group support. Approach A formal tendering process resulted in securing a three year NHS contract. A multi-agency project group was formed, including a service user, to develop the operational service model in accordance with the NHS service specification. Outcomes - Widening access of bereavement support to adults and children experiencing sudden death from suicide, RTAs’ and unexpected deaths - Multi-agency engagement in shaping operational model - Rapid access to social work and counselling social for the bereaved following self-referral and referrals from Primary Care - Positive evaluations from services users and GPs’ - Service user involvement in the formal media launch with South Worcestershire CCG - 193 professionals have attended education programme and positively evaluated - 7401 hits to access information on bereavement website.

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