Bereavement

UK sources of information and / or support

 Cruse Bereavement Care

Cruse Bereavement Care is the largest bereavement charity in the UK, with 150 local branches. It offers help to people bereaved by death, in any way, whatever their age, nationality or belief.

 Compassionate Friends

TCF is an organisation of bereaved parents and their families offering understanding, support and encouragement to others after the death of a child or children. TCF also offers support, advice and information to other relatives, friends and professionals who are helping the family.

 Bereavement

Information from the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

 Bereavement

Policy and guidance from the Department of Health.

 Bereavement: A Self Help Guide

Northumberland, Tyne & Wear NHS Trust provide a range of patient information, including one in this area.

 Childhood Bereavement Network

An excellentre source for information on young people's bereavement services.

 Child Bereavement Trust

Aims to improve the care offered by professionals to grieving families in the immediate crisis and in the many months following the death of someone important in their lives.

 Child Death helpline

Freephone telephone for all those affected by the death of a child.

  Bereavement - Responding helpfully to a child or young person who has experienced bereavement

Information from HandsOnScotland

 Scottish Cot Death Trust

The Trust has three main aims:- To raise funds for the research into the causes and, hopefully, the prevention of Cot Death. To improve and extend the support available to bereaved families. To educate the public and health care professionals about Cot Death.

 Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Society

A national self-help organisation. It has a network of over 200 groups and contacts. All people involved in the network are volunteers and their purpose is to befriend and support bereaved parents and their families, who have suffered a stillbirth or neonatal death.

 A Different Journey

Seeks to support those bereaved ofa partner while still young (together with their families). Coming from a Christian perspective, A Different Journey seeks to offer hope and support to those of all faiths and none. This is a section of the charity 'Care for the Family'.

 Bereaved Parents Network

Supports those parents who have lost a child (including adult children), together with any siblings. This is a section of the charity 'Care for the Family'.

 Babyloss

Website with pages that have been collated to provide information and support online for bereaved parents whose baby has died during pregnancy, at birth or shortly afterwards.

 Centre for Corporate Accountability

Provides advice and assistance to those bereaved and injured from work-related activities on how to ensure that the death or injury is subject to adequate criminal investigation and scrutiny by the prosecution bodies; undertakes research on the way the criminal justice system deals with harm resulting from corporate activities; presses for changes in law and practice in the area of law enforcement and corporate accountability.

 Families against corporate killers (fack)

A national campaigning network which will campaign to stop workers and others being killed in preventable incidents and will direct bereaved families to sources of legal help and emotional support.

 Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY)

A charity which offers help, support and counselling to families where there has been a sudden cardiac death of an apparently fit and healthy young person (Sudden Death Syndrome). Has expert medical information about heart conditions provided by doctors.

 Dignity

Offers a wealth of information to peopleexperiencing bereavement, planning for their future, or people who wouldsimply like to find out more about the bereavement process. Information covers topics such as funeral etiquette, cremation, what to do when someone dies, grief, and 8 other titles. The sitealso has a Dignity Funeral Director finder and a range of information onarranging a funeral, funeral planning and memorials etc.

 Epilepsy Bereaved ?

Help for People Bereaved Through Epilepsy

 Families of Murdered Children

An organisation offering support, information, advice, and advocacy to those families who have lost a loved one as a result of murder.

 Laura Centre

A Family Bereavement Counselling Centre offering support to:

• anyone affected by the death of a child at any age and from any cause.
• any school age child/young person affected by the death of a parent/carer, grandparent, sibling or other significant adult.

 London Association of Bereavement Services

Information about grief and bereavement, lists of services for bereaved people in London and the UK, links to Internet resources worldwide on the subject of bereavement and related issues plus special resources on the themes of race and culture and attachment.

 Nottinghamshire Bereavement Trust

Offer Freephone Helplines every evening of the year between 6 pm and 10 pm to give 'A sympathetic Listening Ear' to those suffering the pain of a bereavement.

 Papyrus

A voluntary organisation committed to the prevention of young suicide and the promotion of mental health and well-being. Aims include: to promote public awareness of the risk of mental or emotional distress during adolescence and young adulthood, and to help to remove the stigma of such occurrences; to provide useful information for the parents of suicidal young people; and where a suicide has already occurred, to encourage the provision of appropriate support, either voluntary or professional, for those closely and traumatically affected.

 Roadpeace

Provides practical and emotional help to those newly bereaved and injured as a result of a road crash.

 Ruby Care Foundation

A registered Charity dedicated to the care of the terminally ill, companionship of the dying, and support and counsel for the bereaved. They work towards the best possible mental, emotional and spiritual back-up and care for everyone involved when death and dying are near.

 SADS - sudden arrhythmic death syndrome

Information for the family and relatives of a young person who has died of Sudden Arrhythmic Death Syndrome - SADS sometimes called sudden adult death syndrome

 SAMM - Support After Murder & Manslaughter

Understanding and support to families and friends, who have been bereaved as a result of murder and manslaughter.

 Sudden Death Support Association

An organisation to help relatives and close friends of people who die suddenly.

 The Way Foundation

Provides a self-help social and support network for men and women widowed under the age of 50, and their children.

 National Association of Widows

The National Association of widows is run by the widowed for the widowed - men and women.

 Winston's Wish

Helps bereaved children and young people rebuild their lives after a family death. We offer practical support and guidance to families, to professionals and to anyone concerned about a grieving child..

 UK Funerals Online

Web site to create awareness of funerals and how the industry works, general advice, help contacts, directory of funeral directors and monumental masons.

 Natural Death Centre

A charitable project launched in Britain in 1991. It aims to support those dying at home and their carers, and to help people arrange inexpensive, family-organised, and environmentally-friendly funerals. It has a more general aim of helping to improve the quality of dying.

 Bereavement

Information from BUPA.

See also the Patient UK patient support bereavement section.

See also the Sudden Adult Death and Sudden Infant Death (Cot Death) pages.

Further sources / more detailed information

Some non-UK sites

The following list popular non-UK health information sites with content aimed at the general public. They are mainly from the US. They have not been checked to see if information about the above topic is included but these large sites are comprehensive.

• Non-UK disease / illness sites
• Non-UK self-help / support group sites

More detailed medical information

The following list online sources of more detailed medical information, mainly from the UK. These sites are mainly aimed at health professionals, but are of interest to all. They have not been checked to see if information about the above topic is included, but information about most medical topics can usually be found.

• PatientPlus - hundreds of medical reference articles provided by Patient UK.
• Evidence Based Medicine - such as from Clinical Evidence, The Cochrane Library, etc.
• Database of UK Clinical Guidelines - from NICE, SIGN, Clinical Knowledge Summaries, etc.
• Medline - abstracts available from thousands of journals.
• Sites listing free online medical textbooks and journals.
• Sites listing free medical images - pictures, atlases, anatomy, skin diseases, etc.