PABBS training – Manchester – June 2019

I attended the recent PABBS training as it is essential to my role as the patient safety lead for our Trust. If providers are committed to enacting the research findings that drove the idea and established this training to support an increased understanding of how suicide affects the bereaved then I would strongly urge you to attend this. It has given me a much richer understanding of how providers need to be more attuned to the needs of the bereaved from both a structural and process point of view but also from a cultural point of view. A change in culture can only occur if Boards, senior managers and clinicians create the conditions within which such a culture can emerge and undertaking the training supports this. From a clinician’s point of view, the PABBS training has also supported our organisation to formulate post-vention standards (e.g. immediate support offered via supervision and/or staff wellbeing, review of caseloads, psychological debriefs for teams) for our staff when they experience the death of a patient with whom they are working.