ShinyMind app
St Christopher’s and ShinyMind are offering free wellbeing support to hospice staff to help manage the emotional challenges of end-of-life care, via the ShinyMind app. The app offers quick, easy-to-use evidence-based resources – including short videos, audio clips, and interactive tools to bring into your daily life to improve wellbeing. Topics include building assertiveness, managing emotions, setting boundaries, reflecting on experiences, and coping with grief and loss, to name a few. If you’re a member of hospice workforce download the app today, and start your journey to better mental health and wellbeing.
Helping healthcare professionals who help grieving families
The GSHP online learning library provides healthcare professionals with zero-cost foundational education on core concepts of grief, grief-sensitive communication with patients, supporters, and colleagues, and personal wellness in high-exposure environments.
Together for Short Lives
Together for Short Lives report, published in June, ‘Vital care, fragile funding: why children’s hospices can’t keep filling the gap‘ shines a light on the growing financial pressures that children’s hospices are under, and provides a series of targeted recommendations for governments across the UK.