End of life care and bereavement

Guidance and services

• National Bereavement Support Grant 2025 to 2028
• National Bereavement Support Grant: application form
• Responding to people bereaved or affected by suicide
• National bereavement care pathway
• National framework for the delivery of bereavement care
• Sudden and unexpected death in children and young people up to 25 years of age: support pathway
• Child burial and cremations: information for local authorities and families
• Care decisions for the last days of life (WHC/2021/023)
• Care decisions for the last days of life (WHC/2016/004)

Policy and background Includes strategy, reports, projects and assessments.

• The Medical Examiners (Wales) Regulations 2024
  Legislation
• Medical Examiners (Wales) Regulations 2024: integrated impact assessment
  Impact assessment
• The quality statement for palliative and end of life care
  Policy and strategy
• Scoping survey of bereavement services
  Report
• National Bereavement Support Grant 2025 to 2028: successful organisations
  Policy and strategy