Table 3.

Characteristics of the bereaved relatives and HSCPs interviewed in the study

Characteristics of HSCPs interviewed	n	Characteristics of bereaved relatives interviewed	n
Hospital-based professionals	1	Gender of participant
Palliative care social worker	1	Female	12
Palliative care consultant	2	Male	7
Palliative care clinical nurse specialist	1
Palliative care team leader (nurse)	1	Participant’s relationship to the family member who died
Registered nurse	1	Spouse/partner	4
Healthcare chaplain	1	Adult child	11
Healthcare assistant	2	Adult grandchild	1
Junior doctor	2	Son/daughter-in-law	2
		Niece	1
Care home-based professionals
Registered nurse	2	Ethnicity of relative/deceased
Palliative care registered nurse	1	White (English/Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British)	19
Hospice-based professionals		Location of relative/death
Palliative care clinical nurse specialist	1	England	14
Palliative care consultant	1	Scotland	4
Palliative care nurse	1	Wales	1
		Northern Ireland	0
Location of professional
England	8	Place of death
Scotland	5	Hospital	10
Wales	2	General ward (n=3)
Northern Ireland	1	Intensive care unit (n=4)
		Coronavirus ward (n=3)
Gender of professional		Care home	9
Female	11
Male	5	Chronic condition of deceased family member
		Dementia	8
Ethnicity of professional		Cancer	4
White (English/Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British)	16	Heart failure	3
		Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)	2
		Renal disease	1
		None identified	1
		Age of participant
		20–29	1
		30–39	2
		40–49	1
		50–59	8
		60–69	6
		70–79	1
		Age of family member who died
		50–59	1
		60–69	2
		70–79	2
		80–89	9
		90+	3
		Age of the children
		0–11 years old	15
		12–18 years old	9

HSCP, health and social care professional.