WORKING WITH YOU (AND OTHERS) Derek Winter DL Her Majesty’s Senior Coroner for the City of Sunderland www.sunderlandcoroner.co.uk

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Key Message: Get it right first time MCCD If you have completed the MCCD correctly… The deceased's family takes the MCCD to Registrars within 5 days of death The death is registered and a formal death certificate is issued If you have completed the MCCD incorrectly… The Registrar refuses to register the death No death certificate Upset relatives Cancelled funerals Possible post-mortem examination Complaints Coroner’s Investigation which may include an Inquest Key Message: Get it right first time

Liaison GP Hospitals Ambulance Service Funeral Directors Registrars Pathologists Other Coroners Police HTA Emergency planners Mental Health Alcohol and drug teams Safeguarding-Children (and now adults) FAMILY

Portal Reporting All referrals will be electronic Coroners Officers will then be in touch at a mutually convenient time

Useful Contacts Office of the Chief Coroner 11th Floor - Thomas More Building Royal Courts of Justice London WC2A 2LL Email: chiefcoronersoffice@judiciary.gsi.gov.uk The Coroners’ Society of England and Wales www.coronersociety.org.uk Coroners' Officers and Staff Association (COASA) http://www.coasa.org.uk/

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