NES’ Supporting Scottish Grief & Bereavement Care (SSG&BC) workstream, which sits within the Medical Directorate, focusses on supporting the delivery of safe, effective and person-centred care which is provided around the time of death and in bereavement, within a culture of support for staff health and wellbeing. The exhibition stand will showcase a selection of educational resources which have been developed to enhance the preparedness of health and social care staff to manage care and communication in a bereavement context.

These resources can be found on NES’ Support around Death (SAD) website www.sad.scot.nhs.uk, and also many of them are available on Turas Learn. A number of the materials are film or animation based, and these can all be viewed on the SAD website's videowall.

A broad range of topics have been addressed within the bereavement resources developed to date, including e.g.

• Discussing dying and anticipatory grief
• How to talk and be with adults who are bereaved and how to talk to children who are bereaved
• Supporting LGBT people around death and bereavement
• Delivering the news of a death by telephone
• Medical Certification of Cause of Death
• Coping with death and bereavement as a health and social care professional
• Bereavement in the workplace

The SAD website also provides information on future learning events for health and social care staff, hosted by NES’ SSG&BC workstream, as well as recordings from previous conference and webinar sessions. Upcoming events include:

Autumn webinar – Supporting those who experience the death of a child – Thursday 15 September 17:00-18:00, with speakers Yvonne Caie, Bereavement Nurse Specialist, NHS Fife and Gordon Strang, Healthcare Chaplain, NHS Fife. The session will include discussion about the impact the death of a child has on a family, how to build confidence and skills in communicating with, and supporting, families who are bereaved of a child and how to consider ways to support yourself and your colleagues. Click here for more information / to register

Annual Bereavement Education Conference – Thursday 24 November 2022, free, one-day virtual event: ‘Exploring bereavement from a new perspective’ with speakers including the author Michael Rosen and workshop sessions focussing on an exploration of grief and loss across the life course and the diversity of experiences within a variety of settings and cultural groups e.g. bereavement experiences of Gypsies and Travellers, those in custody and people who are homeless. Save the date! Registration opening soon #NESBereavement2022

The Remote and Rural Scottish Centre of Excellence Festival of Learning – two sessions being hosted by NES’ SSG&BC workstream: ‘Because Grief Matters – Recognising the need for Education around Death and Bereavement’, including one being held virtually on Thursday 29 September 14:30-15:30. Click here for more information / to register

In keeping with the conference exhibition stands being themed around the number 20 (to reflect the fact that NES is 20 years old this year), visitors to the SSG&BC workstream stand may also be interested to know that:

• Over 20 bereavement-related educational films have been launched to date
• There have been almost 20,000 views of our ‘Discussing dying’ animation and over 100,000 views across all of our bereavement films
• Over 20,000 hits seen on the SAD website in the last 3 months
• The 20th NES bereavement webinar will be hosted in 2023

Did you know that NES Bereavement has a Twitter account? We’d love to increase our NES Staff followers today. Follow us on Twitter @NES_Bereavement if you are interested to be kept informed about the activities of the SSG&BC workstream or sign up to receive our quarterly e-Newsletter.

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