We are very grateful for the significant support we received from Trusts and Foundations over this past challenging year - a huge thank you to all who responded to our funding applications for support.
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e particularly appreciated a grant received from the Scottish Government Wellbeing Fund which enabled our Counselling and Bereavement team to move quickly and to put in place appropriate measures to continue and expand the bereavement counselling services while working remotely from home.
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All our face-to-face counselling and bereavement support visits had to be stopped in March 2020 due to COVID-19. Nonmedical staff were either furloughed or, where possible, asked to work from home. At the same time our patients and family members were experiencing increased stress as a result of: health anxiety; deterioration caused by disease progression; isolation due to
