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  • Bereavement guidance after the experience of a miscarriage, stillbirth or neonatal death

    Topics:
    • Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professions (AHPs), 
    • Professional medical and environmental health advice, 
    • Midwifery, 
    • Professional good practice guidelines

    Regional Bereavement Guidance on evidence-based, holistic care of parents and their families after the experience of miscarriage, stillbirth or neonatal death.

    Purpose of this guide


    The aim is to aid professionals in providing support to women and their families throughout the time of the loss of their baby.

    This guide should be read in conjunction with the relevant regional care pathway (depending on gestation of pregnancy loss).

    The overarching aim is to:

    • promote a sensitive and thoughtful parent and family-centered approach to care
    • provide health professionals and others with the guiding principles of good evidence-based practice
    • establish a regional standard of care throughout Northern Ireland by the
    • implementation of the Regional Bereavement Pathways for Care
    • provide guidance around the various legislations, for example, The HumanTissue Act 2004

    Bereavement guidance after the experience of a miscarriage, stillbirth or neonatal death

    The Northern Ireland Bereavement Strategy (2009)

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