End of life care

Guidance and services

• National framework for the delivery of bereavement care
  This framework supports those commissioning or providing bereavement services.
• National Bereavement Support Grant 2021 to 2024
  How to apply for funding for projects to support bereavement care and support.
• National Bereavement Support Grant: application form
  Use this form to apply for the National Bereavement Support Grant 2021 to 2024.
• Care decisions for the last days of life (WHC/2016/004)
  Guidance for health professionals on caring for patients in the last days of life.
• Care decisions for the last days of life (WHC/2021/023)
  Informs health boards and trusts about the replacement of current care decisions guidance. It requests that the new guidance is disseminated and implemented.

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

• The quality statement for palliative and end of life care
  Policy and strategy
  The quality statement describes what good quality palliative and end of life care services should look like.
• Scoping survey of bereavement services
  Report
  Report on the availability of support services to help people cope with the loss of a loved one.