PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Gittins, Kellie TI - P-97 A collaborative approach to provide bereavement support in response to the COVID-19 pandemic at blackpool teaching hospitals AID - 10.1136/spcare-2021-Hospice.114 DP - 2021 Nov 01 TA - BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care PG - A43--A43 VI - 11 IP - Suppl 2 4099 - http://spcare.bmj.com/content/11/Suppl_2/A43.3.short 4100 - http://spcare.bmj.com/content/11/Suppl_2/A43.3.full SO - BMJ Support Palliat Care2021 Nov 01; 11 AB - Following national guidance (NICE 2014) the need for seven-day specialist palliative care at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals has been a longstanding aim of the Fylde Coast Strategy (2016-2021). The COVID-19 pandemic further highlighted this gap, alongside the need for a structured bereavement service. The need for significant bereavement support for staff as well as families became clear early on in the pandemic.As a direct response to the pandemic, a collaborative approach with Fylde Coast partners including Trinity Hospice and Macmillan enabled the provision of a period of seven-day, face-to-face specialist palliative care in the acute trust alongside a bereavement service for patients, families and staff, providing immediate support and after-care.The changes made during the pandemic reinforced the need for a permanent bereavement service and seven-day specialist palliative care input in the acute trust. Data collected from the pandemic resulted in the successful submission of business cases to allow for this.A divisional restructure has aligned all three teams (palliative care, Swan* and bereavement and chaplaincy) so that we can continue to provide a collaborative approach to end-of-life care, education and training across the trust.* The Swan Team offer support to provide the highest quality end-of-life and bereavement care.