| Heading: |
Medical Examiners: Death Certificates |
| Question ID: |
1783753 |
| UIN: |
37565 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-12 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4464 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Melanie Onn
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| Asking Member handle: |
melanie_onn
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@melanie_onn
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of assessments undertaken by medical examiners to establish causes of death. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-03-21 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4981 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Ashley Dalton
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| Answering Member handle: |
AshleyDalton_MP
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@AshleyDalton_MP
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| Answer text: |
The Government is monitoring the impact of the death certification reforms which came into legal effect on 9 September 2024. Medical examiner offices are staffed at a trust level with oversight and guidance from the National Medical Examiner based in NHS ... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |