Medical examiners will be 'one step removed' from NHS trusts

By Shaun Lintern2018-07-09T05:57:00

New medical examiners tasked with reviewing hospital deaths from next April will not be employed by the NHS provider in which they will be based, in order to safeguard their independence, HSJ has learned.

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