Specialised Counselling for Pregnancy-Related Bereavement and Baby Loss Across Suffolk and North East Essex

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Intention is to commission a specialised bereavement counselling service that meets the needs of women or the birthing person and their partners, who are experiencing mild to moderate mental health distress because of pregnancy-related bereavement or baby loss.

Access to the service will be provided via professional referral and self-referral.

The service is accessible following a stillbirth, second trimester miscarriage, terminations for medical reasons, recurrent miscarriages, neonatal loss, birth trauma, pregnancy after loss, and early miscarriage (by professional referral only).

A fixed number of counselling sessions will be provided either virtually or face-to-face based on parent choice.