Sands believes that parents must have the opportunity to feed their thoughts into the review of their baby's death, and to ask the questions that are important to them.
For healthcare professionals it can feel difficult to approach parents at an acutely distressing time and to raise sensitive issues. We have developed resources, both within Sands and in collaboration with the PMRT group, to support anyone engaging parents in a review or investigation process. Parents have told us what's important to them and we have used that feedback to inform these resources.
Healthcare professionals can sometimes find the review process difficult themselves. Remember you can use Sands helpline services if you would like support or to talk someone.
Sands provides training for health care professionals to help support their communication with parents around hospital review, and parental engagement in the PMRT. Details of the Parent Engagement in Review training webinar can be found here.
Sands Research and Prevention Advisor, Charlotte Bevan, talks about the importance of parent engagement in perinatal mortality review:
