ADULT SOCIAL CARE
Phone: 01926 886922
AGE UK Coventry & Warwickshire offers information and advice to older people and their carers.
Phone: 024 76231999
National Helpline: 0800 009966
Website:www.ageuk.org.uk
ASSIST TRAUMA CARE provides a therapeutic service for family members traumatised as the result of homicide of a loved one.
Phone: 01788 560800
At a Loss.org - Signposting website for anyone that has been bereaved
CHILD BEREAVEMENT CHARITY supports families when a baby or child of any age dies.
Phone: 01494 568900
Website: www.childbereavementuk.org
CITIZEN’S ADVICE BUREAU (NUNEATON & BEDWORTH) providing an information only service on a range of subjects such as legal issues and health.
Phone: 024 76494393
National Helpline: 0300 330 1163
COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS peer support group offering different kinds of support for bereaved families.
Phone: 024 76348011
CRUSE BEREAVEMENT CARE acts as a listening service for those or someone they know who has been affected by a death. They provide information on practical and financial matters and details of groups available.
Phone: 024 76670714
National Helpline: 0808 8081677
Website:www.cruse.org.uk
DEPARTMENT FOR WORK AND PENSIONS (DWP)
Phone: 0800 1690190
MACMILLAN offers an online support community. Macmillan also have an information centre based at the entrance of George Eliot Hospital.
Website:www.macmillan.org.uk
MARY ANN FAMILY SUPPORT & BEREAVEMENT SERVICE provides confidential and high quality emotional support to individuals and their family members and friends.
Phone: 024 76865431
Email: geh.maryannclinical@nhs.net
Website: maryannevans.org.uk
NUNEATON REGISTRAR OF BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES
Phone: 0300 555 0255
PATIENT ADVICE & LIAISON SERVICE providing help and advice for patient, relatives and carers.
Phone: 024 76865550 or 024 76865576
Email: pals@geh.nhs.uk
PROBATE HELPLINE
Phone: 0300 1231072
SOPHIA parent support group for families that have experienced a pregnancy loss.
https://www.facebook.com/SophiaPLS
STILLBIRTH AND NEONATAL DEATH CHARITY (SANDS) offers support for anyone affected by the death of a baby.
Phone: 0207 4365881
SURVIVORS OF BEREAVEMENT BY SUICIDE is a self-help group that offers support to families and friends of those who have committed suicide.
National helpline: 0300 111 5065
Website:www.uksobs.org
THE COUNSELLING DIRECTORY helps people to find a private counsellor.
Website:www.counselling-directory.org.uk
THE GOOD GRIEF TRUST provides practical help and advice to newly bereaved.
Website:http://www.thegoodgrieftrust.org
THE SAMARITANS are available 24 hours a day to provide confidential emotional support for people who are experiencing feelings of distress or despair, including those which may lead to suicide.
National helpline: 116 123 (this number is free tocall)
Website:www.samaritans.org
jo@samaritans.org (UK andROI)
THE VICTIM SUPPORT GROUP offers emotional and practical support to those who have been bereaved due to a crime that has been committed.
Phone: 0808 16 89 111
WIDOWED AND YOUNG is a self-help group created to offer support for those bereaved who are under 50. Their website offers helpful information about talking to children, the practicalities of planning the funeral and its aftermath. There is also the opportunity to join the organisation.
Website:www.widowedandyoung.org.uk
Remember, people want to help.
If you need to know how and where to find help,
our hospital staff will be pleased to assist you.
