Services
NHSGGC Staff Counselling Service
Counselling services are available to all NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde employees within the Occupational Health Department at the West Glasgow ACH. Please note, this is a service for NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde employees only and we do not provide counselling to members of the public.
Macmillan Information and NHS Bereavement Centre
The service provides patients, families, carers and staff access to information materials on various types of cancer, long term conditions and their treatment.
NHSGGC Bereavement Support for Parents, Siblings and Staff
Child Bereavement UK has been commissioned by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde with funding from Glasgow Children’s Hospital Charity to provide bereavement support for families bereaved of a baby or child, and training to support NHSGGC staff.
Renfrewshire Bereavement Network
New grief and bereavement service for families in Renfrewshire.
Resources
What Can Happen When Someone is Dying: Information for Friends or Relatives
- Download latest version (2021) or order booklet from NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Public Health Resources Directory
When someone has died – information for you
- View or download this booklet at NHS Inform (Link may not work as online version of this booklet is currently being updated)
- Order Copies from NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Public Health Resources Directory
What to do after a death in Scotland – practical advice for times of bereavement: revised 11th edition 2016 (web only).
The guide provides the reader with a list of useful contact details. Only available as a download from Scottish Government website
Women & Children’s Services, Palliative Care Resource Folder
NHSGGC Bereavement Bags
Bereavement bags are no longer available to order through Pecos, however these are available for collection/delivery on all sites.
The bags have to be used to return belongings to relatives/carers/friends after a death in NHSGGC Hospitals.
Other Services & Resources
Bereavement Support for children
Support is available through selected hospices in the NHSGGC area. Services have been developed in each of the hospices below from the work of the ‘Butterfly Project’ – contact the hospice nearest to your location for further information.
- Prince & Princess of Wales Hospice (Glasgow City Centre)
Butterfly Service Leaflet - Ardgowan Hospice (Greenock)
Ardgowan Hospice – Counselling-Bereavement - St. Vincent’s Hospice (Johnstone)
St. Vincent’s Hospice Butterfly Project APP (iOS only)
The Butterfly App is young person friendly, it offers creative suggestions and promotes self care while recognising bereavement is a very challenging time.
St. Vincent’s Hospice – Contact Us
- EQUIPUEQUIPU is a service responsible for providing, delivering and installing a range of disability equipment supplied by health and social work services to disabled people living at home. For further information or to arrange uplift or repairs contact:Telephone. 0141 287 6300Website: www.equipu.org.uk
- NHSGGC Health & Wellbeing Directory (Select ‘Money Advice’ Topic)
- NHSGGC Occupational Health (StaffNet)
- Spiritual Care and Chaplaincy (StaffNet)
- Faith and Belief Communities Manual
- NHSGGC Family Support Service
- Lifelink offers a range of stress services for adults and young people in communities and schools across Glasgow City.
- Living Life is a free telephone service available to anyone over the age of 16 who is suffering from low mood, mild to moderate depression and/or anxiety.
- A Whole School Approach to Loss and Bereavement is a reference toolkit (published by NHSGGC & Glasgow City Council) providing information to help teachers support children and young people during times of loss, change and bereavement.
National Resources and Services
This NHS Education for Scotland website aims to support healthcare staff who are working with patients, carers and families before, at, and after death. It provides key information on the clinical, legislative, and practical issues involved.
NHS Education for Scotland animated films on matters related to bereavement care
Confirmation of Death Documents
Other websites
- Acumen Mental Health Support
- ARC – Antenatal Results & Choices
- Body Donation
- British Heart Foundation bereavement resource for children
- Calman Cancer Support Centre (Cancer Support Scotland)
- Child Bereavement UK
- Child Death Helpline
- Children’s Hospice Association Scotland (CHAS)
- Citizen’s Advice Scotland
- Compassionate friends – Dealing with death of a child
- Cruse Bereavement Care Scotland
- Department for Work & Pensions
- Dying Matters
- Glasgow Association for Mental Health (GAMH)
- Good Life, Good Death, Good Grief
- Maggies Centres Bereavement support
- Mental Health Network (Greater Glasgow)
- Miscarriage Association
- Money Advice Scotland
- Muslim Bereavement Service
- Organ Donation Scotland
- PETAL – People experiencing Trauma and Loss
- Procurator Fiscal – Information on Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) is now published on SAD website
- Remember My Baby – baby remembrance photography
- Richmond’s Hope
- SANDS Stillbirth & Neonatal death charity – Glasgow Sands
- Scottish Cot Death Trust
- Scottish Association for Mental Health – after a suicide
- Scottish Families Affected by Alcohol & Drugs – Bereavement Service
- SIMBA – Memory boxes for bereaved parents
- SOBS – Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide
- Sudden – Supporting people after sudden death
- Tissue donation advice
- WAY Widowed & Young
- Widows, National Association of
- Winston’s Wish – Charity for bereaved children
