The Medical Certificate of Cause of Death Regulations 2024
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3 Attending practitioner’s certificate
(1) As soon as practicable after becoming aware of a death, an attending practitioner must— (a) review— (i) the deceased person’s relevant health records; (ii) the results of any physical examination of the body of the deceased person undertaken by the practitioner or any other registered medical practitioner; and (iii) any other information which the practitioner considers relevant, with a view to establishing the cause of death to the best of the practitioner’s knowledge and belief; (b) either— (i) prepare and sign an attending practitioner’s certificate; or (ii) where they are not able to establish the cause of death, refer the death to the relevant senior coroner; and (c) where they have prepared and signed an attending practitioner’s certificate, make available to an appropriate medical examiner— (i) the attending practitioner’s certificate; and (ii) the deceased person’s relevant health records and any other information reviewed under sub-paragraph (1)(a). (2) Paragraph (1) does not apply where— (a) another attending practitioner has given an attending practitioner’s certificate to an appropriate medical examiner in relation to the death; (b) the relevant senior coroner has referred the death to an appropriate medical examiner under regulation 15(1); or (c) the relevant senior coroner has decided that there is a duty to conduct an investigation into the death under section 1 of the Act. (3) For the purposes of these Regulations, “attending practitioner’s certificate” means the certificate referred to in section 20(1)(a)(i) of the Act which shall take the form of— (a) in the case of a death of a child within the period of 28 days beginning with the day of the child’s birth, the certificate in either of the forms set out in Part 1 or Part 2 of Schedule 1; (b) in the case of any other death, the certificate in either of the forms set out in Part 1 or Part 2 of Schedule 2.
3 Attending practitioner’s certificate
(1) As soon as practicable after becoming aware of a death, an attending practitioner must— (a) review— (i) the deceased person’s relevant health records; (ii) the results of any physical examination of the body of the deceased person undertaken by the practitioner or any other registered medical practitioner; and (iii) any other information which the practitioner considers relevant, with a view to establishing the cause of death to the best of the practitioner’s knowledge and belief; (b) either— (i) prepare and sign an attending practitioner’s certificate; or (ii) where they are not able to establish the cause of death, refer the death to the relevant senior coroner; and (c) where they have prepared and signed an attending practitioner’s certificate, make available to an appropriate medical examiner— (i) the attending practitioner’s certificate; and (ii) the deceased person’s relevant health records and any other information reviewed under sub-paragraph (1)(a). (2) Paragraph (1) does not apply where— (a) another attending practitioner has given an attending practitioner’s certificate to an appropriate medical examiner in relation to the death; (b) the relevant senior coroner has referred the death to an appropriate medical examiner under regulation 15(1); or (c) the relevant senior coroner has decided that there is a duty to conduct an investigation into the death under section 1 of the Act. (3) For the purposes of these Regulations, “attending practitioner’s certificate” means the certificate referred to in section 20(1)(a)(i) of the Act which shall take the form of— (a) in the case of a death of a child within the period of 28 days beginning with the day of the child’s birth, the certificate in either of the forms set out in Part 1 or Part 2 of Schedule 1; (b) in the case of any other death, the certificate in either of the forms set out in Part 1 or Part 2 of Schedule 2.
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