Medical Examiners
Recommendations related to medical examiners
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recommendation across 3 inquiries
Across 3 inquiries
Tagged Recommendations
Employment Contracts and Duty of Candour
Trusts should review their contracts of employment, policies and guidance to ensure that, where relevant, they include and are consistent with the duty of candour.
Independent Medical Examiner
The Department should now institute the office of Independent Medical Examiner to scrutinise those hospital deaths not referred to the Coroner.
Implement medical examiner system
There is no mechanism to scrutinise perinatal deaths or maternal deaths independently, to identify patient safety concerns and to provide early warning of adverse trends. This shortcoming has been clearly …
Extend medical examiners to stillbirths
Given that the systematic review of deaths by medical examiners should be in place, as above, we recommend that this system be extended to stillbirths as well as neonatal deaths, …
Independent medical examiners
It is of considerable importance that independent medical examiners are independent of the organisation whose patients' deaths are being scrutinised.
Independent medical examiners
Sufficient numbers of independent medical examiners need to be appointed and resourced to ensure that they can give proper attention to the workload.
Death certification
It should be a routine part of an independent medical examiners's role to seek out and consider any serious untoward incidents or adverse incident reports relating to the deceased, to …
Appropriate and sensitive contact with bereaved families
It is important that independent medical examiners and any others having to approach families for this purpose have careful training in how to undertake this sensitive task in a manner …