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Bridging the gap
— strengthening relations between hospices and Muslims of Britain | | Author(s) | Sughra Ahmed, Naved Siddiqi |
| Corporate Author | Woolf Institute; Hospice UK; Together for Short Lives |
| Publisher | Woolf Institute, Cambridge, 2015 |
| Pages | 45 pp |
| Source | https://www.hospiceuk.org/what-we-offer/publications?kwrd=... |
| Keywords | Terminal care ; Islam ; Communication ; Funeral services ; Standards of provision. |
| Annotation | Hospice UK and Together for Short Lives commissioned this report with the aim of learning how hospices and British Muslim communities can mutually strengthen engagement, so that hospices may provide the support needed by children and adults. Using research carried on over a 6-month period, the report looks at what is important to Muslims towards the end of life, and the barriers to engagement between hospices and Muslims in Britain. It also covers learning from national workshops, from the data, and from examples of best practice. Recommendations focus on three core areas. First, hospices and service providers should include information on religion and ethnicity in their records, to be used at registration of death and in preparing burial services. Second, hospices need to communicate and engage with local Muslim organisations, for example through community radio and television. Third, hospices, service providers and clinicians should seek specialist training programmes to better understand the "last journey" protocols and services. Joint training with mosques and Muslim burial services would also help in understanding what is needed from when a patient dies to the completion of burial rites of passage. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-161101001 B |
| Classmark | LV: TUR: U: OX: 583 |
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