{"id":9927,"date":"2025-09-15T12:37:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T11:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iccm-uk.com\/iccm\/?p=9927"},"modified":"2025-09-15T12:54:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T11:54:10","slug":"medical-examiner-report-reflections-one-year-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iccm-uk.com\/iccm\/medical-examiner-report-reflections-one-year-on\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Medical Examiner Report \u2013 Reflections One Year On\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the 12<sup>th<\/sup> of September, the Medical Examiner released the following report, assessing the impact of the Medical Examiner system since its implementation in September 2024. The full report can be found here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.england.nhs.uk\/long-read\/national-medical-examiner-report-2024\/\">NHS England \u00bb National Medical Examiner report 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In summary, the following key takeaways are reported as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Successful implementation of reforms:<\/strong> The statutory requirement for independent medical examiner scrutiny of all non-coronial deaths was introduced across England and Wales, marking the most significant change to death certification in decades.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Enhanced safeguards and support for bereaved families:<\/strong> Every non-coronial death now undergoes independent review, giving bereaved families the chance to ask questions and raise concerns. Feedback has been overwhelmingly positive, highlighting the compassion and reassurance provided.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Impact on processes and system performance:<\/strong> While some local delays are noted, overall registration times have increased by 1\u20132 days. Most cases are processed within 5 days (England) and 8\u20139 days (Wales).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Quality, safety, and learning improvements:<\/strong> In 2024, over 400,000 deaths were scrutinised. Thousands of concerns were referred for clinical review, including patient safety incidents, and referrals to coroners fell by 10%.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Future priorities and challenges:<\/strong> The system is still developing and requires sustained support, digital tools (such as a long-awaited digital Medical Certificate of Cause of Death), adequate staffing, and collaboration across healthcare, coroners, and registrars\u2019 services to meet rising death numbers and ensure resilience.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>On the 12th of September, the Medical Examiner released the following report, assessing the impact of the Medical Examiner system since its implementation in September <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iccm-uk.com\/iccm\/medical-examiner-report-reflections-one-year-on\/\" title=\"\u2018Medical Examiner Report \u2013 Reflections One Year On\u2019\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iccm-uk.com\/iccm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9927"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iccm-uk.com\/iccm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iccm-uk.com\/iccm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iccm-uk.com\/iccm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iccm-uk.com\/iccm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iccm-uk.com\/iccm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9928,"href":"https:\/\/www.iccm-uk.com\/iccm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9927\/revisions\/9928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iccm-uk.com\/iccm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iccm-uk.com\/iccm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iccm-uk.com\/iccm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}