Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 37566
Medical Examiners: Death Certificates
Tabled: 12 March 2025
Answered: 21 March 2025
Question
Melanie Onn
Labour — Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the medical examiner process on (a) bereaved relatives and (b) the time it takes for families to arrange funerals.
Answer
Ashley DaltonThe Government is monitoring the impact of the death certification reforms which came into legal effect on 9 September 2024. Early data since the introduction of the reforms indicates the median time taken to register a death appeared to have risen by one...
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