Free Online Bereavement Support from Sue Ryder

Here at St John’s Hospice we are keeping busy by ensuring we continue to provide excellent end of life care to our patients both in the hospice and out in the community. As we speak our Doctors and nurses are working hard on the frontline making sure we are still delivering the care our patients deserve.

Coronavirus has impacted the entire world and whilst numbers are declining slowly the impact has left terrible devastation. Many families and friends have lost loved ones during this time and this has affected people right here on our doorstep in Bedfordshire.

At Sue Ryder we are working both on a national and local level to provide online bereavement support to anyone who is in need. Our national website has an online bereavement support and free counselling sessions and locally our Family Support team have launched a telephone hotline to offer an ear to those who’ve experienced bereavement either because of Covid-19 or during this period of lockdown. We want to make people aware that if they have been affected by this current crisis there is somewhere to turn.

We have already experienced an 84% increase in demand for this online service over the last 3 weeks. For any questions please don’t hesitate to get in touch and do let us know how you’re coping, we’re all in this together.