Dr Dawn Chaplin

Heartlands Hospital hosted a conference last week, to bring health professionals from the West Midlands together to discuss the best way to care for relatives who have lost loved ones.

The conference marks the beginning of a new Birmingham Bereavement Partnership Project, which aims to find new ways of supporting bereaved relatives whilst in Hospital. 

Dr Dawn Chaplin, project director, said: “The conference was a great success and the feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. We need more events like today where people can discuss and understand the impact of their care and look at ways of working collaboratively to ensure the end of life and bereavement care we provide is of the highest quality.

“The project is aimed at looking for new ways of working across traditional boundaries to ensure that bereaved relatives are provided with the right information, support and guidance, at the right time, by the right people all along the bereavement journey. This project is jointly supported by The Heart of England, which covers Heartlands, Good Hope and Solihull Hospitals University Hospitals Birmingham, which covers both the old and new Queen Elizabeth Hospitals and NHS West Midlands.”