BRIS-21 Response Historic

Require every trust to provide a professional bereavement service and online information

Recommendation

Every trust should have a professional bereavement service. (We also reiterate what was recommended in the Inquiry’s Interim Report: ‘Recommendation 13: As hospitals develop websites, a domain should be created concerned with bereavement in which all the relevant information concerning post-mortems can be set out in an appropriate manner.’)

Published Evidence Summary
The following publicly available evidence relates to this recommendation:
No formal government response has been recorded for this recommendation. No independent verification has been carried out.
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Jurisdiction
UK-wide
Response
Historic

No government response recorded.

Source
Inquiry Bristol Heart Inquiry
Report Bristol Heart Inquiry — Final Report 18 Jul 2001
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Themes & Tags
Coroner family information gaps Care and discharge planning
Recommendation age 24.9 yrs
Last formal update No formal updates