A charity founded by NHS workers during the pandemic is launching a fund to support children of front-line healthcare staff who died with Covid-19. The Healthcare Workers’ Foundation’s fund will
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Groups supporting the bereaved relatives of care home residents who died during the coronavirus pandemic will seek to become core participants of the forthcoming public inquiry. Two organisations – John’s
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Gaps in support for grieving families will be addressed, bereavement minister Nadine Dorries pledged as she addressed the launch of the UK Commission on Bereavement. “We are aware that there
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The majority of people seeking help with their grief have struggled to access bereavement services during the coronavirus pandemic, early research suggests. Many people struggling after a bereavement faced long
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London Mayor Sadiq Khan has opened a garden memorial dedicated to those who have lost their lives to Covid-19. Thirty-three trees have been planted at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in
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The involvement of bereaved families will be “absolutely key” to the success of the independent inquiry into the Government’s handling of the pandemic, a campaigner has said. Boris Johnson revealed
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Actor Lennie James has reflected on his experience of losing his mother at a young age as part of a new charity campaign. Barnardo’s has launched Believe In Me to
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The number of care home residents who died during the coronavirus pandemic in England and Wales was a fifth higher than the average for the previous five years, figures show.
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About 60,000 extra deaths have taken place in private homes in the UK since lockdown began a year ago, new analysis suggests. Extra deaths – known as “excess deaths” –
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A care home resident died alone while her daughter was left in a waiting room, a watchdog has found. The daughter suffered “avoidable distress” by not being informed her mother
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