Letters to the editor
References
Department of Health 2008 . End of life care strategy . www.dh.gov.uk/publications
Field, D, Reid, DPayne, SS. 2004. Survey of UK hospice and specialist palliative care adult bereavement services. International Journal of Palliative Nursing, 10(12): 569–576.
Kissane, D and Bloch, S. 2002. Family-focused grief therapy, Buckingham: Open University Press.
Machin, L. 2009. Working with loss and grief: a new model for practitioners, London: Sage.
NICE 2004 . Improving supportive and palliative care for adults with cancer . London : NICE .
Stroebe, MS, Hansson, R and Stroebe, W. 1993. “Contemporary themes and controversies in bereavement research”. In Handbook of bereavement research: theory, research and intervention, Edited by: Stroebe, MS, Stroebe, W and Hansson, RO. 457–475. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
WHO 1990 . Cancer pain relief and palliative care . Geneva : World Health Organisation .
Department of Health 2008 . End of life care strategy . www.dh.gov.uk/publications
Holloway, M. 2007. Negotiating death in contemporary health and social care, Bristol: Policy Press.
Howarth, G. 2007. Death and dying: a sociological introduction, Cambridge: Polity.
NICE 2004 . Improving supportive and palliative care for adults with cancer . London : NICE .
Stroebe, M, Shut, H and Stroebe, W. 2007. Health outcomes of bereavement. The Lancet, 370(9603): 1960–1973.