Working with practitioners to develop training in peri-natal loss and bereavement: Evaluating three workshops

This paper outlines the development and evaluation of a series of workshops around peri-natal loss initially offered to health visitors in North Staffordshire (UK), and then expanded to incorporate midwives. The authors formally evaluated the three workshops (and their impact) retrospectively, and implemented the findings to further develop the workshops, thus ensuring relevance to professional practice. The rationale behind the introduction of the workshops and the contents are introduced; approaches to the evaluation process described; presentation of the findings offered; followed by a discussion of the key issues.