Registered Healthcare Chaplains are appointed by NHS Lothian as part of the wider Healthcare Team and their role is to provide specialist spiritual care.
They offer compassionate, person-centred care, and the service is available to people of all backgrounds and life stances. Support is provided in a sensitive, non-judgemental and confidential manner helping people find strength, comfort and meaning at what can be a very difficult or worrying times. Registered Chaplains hold the space for service users to (re)discover meaning, purpose and hope amid transition, loss and pain.
Registered Chaplains can help people find hope, meaning and purpose in the midst of illness and uncertainty; affirming that tears and laughter, pain and joy are part of the normal experience of being human.
Registered Healthcare Chaplains are based on each of the acute sites and can be contacted as follows:
