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Resources for people bereaved by suicide: please pass on these details to anyone who might benefit
New resources for people bereaved by suicide: please pass on these details to anyone who might benefit. Each year, more than 700,000 people die by suicide worldwide. In the UK, it is around 7,000 – making it the biggest cause of death for people aged 20–34 and for men under 50.
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Learning from Serious Harm or Traumatic Bereavement
Making Families Count is running two events for families on 18 or 27 November. The events are for families to help to shape our agenda to improve the NHS. For further information and to book a place, please click here. Last Updated on 21 October 2025 by
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Making Families Count Adopts a New Strategic Plan
We are excited to announce that the Board has decided we should focus our future efforts in 2 key areas: The Board appointed Julie Kerry as Chair and Dorit Braun as Chief Executive to drive this work forward. We will be recruiting further Board members and establishing initial online discussions with families in the coming…
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New Masterclasses with Healthcare Conferences UK
We have agreed with Healthcare Conferences UK to deliver a series of masterclasses based on our successful Life Beyond the Cubicle project: All these courses can be delivered bespoke via Healthcare Conferences UK. Details for each course can be found on each of the flyers linked above. Last Updated on 3 October 2025 by
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Media Release: Life Beyond the Cubicle resources
25 September 2024 Life Beyond the Cubicle New free eLearning resources for health and social care professionals working in mental health services and emergency departments are now available in time for World Mental Health Day 10 October 2024. These resources were co-created by people with lived experience as patients, family carers and clinicians in the Oxford Health…
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New Bespoke Training at Surrey and Borders
Our first bespoke training for 2024 will take place in April when we travel to Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust to deliver three days of bespoke face-to-face training to all the managers of this trust. The training will cover staff responsiveness and working with families with confidence, using Duty of Candour well, having…
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Trevor Stevens Speaks on Radio 4
Making Families Count member Trevor Stevens spoke to Marina Cantacuzino as part of her BBC Sounds series “Forgiveness – Stories from the Front Line”, which has also been shared on Radio 4. If you haven’t heard this programme yet, I strongly recommend it to you. It’s powerful and humbling though if you’ve lost a loved…
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Making Families Count at RCPCH Annual Conference
This year, Making Families Count have been asked to speak at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Annual Conference on 26 March in Birmingham. Rosi Reed will be speaking as part of a longer session on the use and implementation of Martha’s Rule and how we can improve the way clinicians work with…
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New MFC Members
Making Families Count are pleased to announce that we have two new members, Trevor Stevens and Sue Willgoss, and our new members have already been busy working with MFC. Trevor has written pieces for our blog and been a speaker at several MFC webinars. Sue has been working with MFC members Jan Sunman and Stephen Habgood…
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Patient Safety Education Network
Rosi Reed of Making Families Count will be speaking at the Patient Safety Education Network on Friday 8 March. Her presentation is “The importance of establishing a meaningful relationship with families after a patient safety incident”, though she’ll also be talking about the work of Making Families Count and the training they offer around this. Last…