Policy and regulation

Chief coroner warns over watered down medical examiner role

By 2018-12-20T10:30:00

Chief coroner mark lucraft qc

England’s chief coroner has raised concerns over the independence of proposed new medical examiners in the NHS and warned the system will not tackle gaps exploited by the serial killer GP Harold Shipman.

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