Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will implement a national bereavement support line to provide counselling and support for families during the covid-19 outbreak.
The Government has no plans at present to create a national bereavement support line but we are taking a cross-Government approach to address bereavement support, and what is needed to ensure that families and friends of those deceased get the support they need.
A number of charities and voluntary organisations provide a range of valued services for people experiencing bereavement.
Cruse Bereavement Care provides a national helpline. For National Health Service staff, a confidential bereavement support line and other sources of support are available at the following link:
https://people.nhs.uk/help/