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The Chaplaincy at the UBH/T

56 The Spiritual Adviser to the UBH/T, the Reverend Yeomans, with a team of full- and part-time chaplains of various denominations who serve the BRI and the BRHSC, responded to the spiritual and religious needs of patients, their families, carers and staff.

57 In 1992 one of the chaplains, Canon Charmion Mann, together with Helen Vegoda, set up a Bereavement Support Group for parents, and from 1994 Canon Mann, and later her successor, the Reverend Helena Cermakova, assisted at annual remembrance services for children who had died following cardiac surgery. [49]

Footnotes

[49] WIT 0011 0031 Sharon Peacock, mother of Andrew; WIT 0461 0005 - 0006 Carol Kift, mother of Steven