Programme information
- Title:
- Medical Examiner (MEX)
- Description:
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Medical Examiner is an e-learning programme commissioned by the Department of Health and Social Care and delivered by the Health Education England e-Learning for Healthcare programme (HEE e-LfH) and the Royal College of Pathologists Medical Examiners Committee. The programme supports the implementation of the Government’s reform of the process of death certification in England and Wales. This course will help to deliver the majority of the essential training required for newly appointed Medical Examiners.
The training modules will train Medical Examiners in conducting independent medical scrutiny of cause of death, in providing advice on the process of referral to the coroner and, where invited, in providing medical advice to coroners themselves.
The legislative framework for implementing these important reforms is included in the Coroners and Justice Act 2009.
Most of the material that you are about to access is entirely relevant to current practices surrounding death and interacting with the bereaved.
However, its key purpose is to provide learning for the new system of death certification for England and Wales, introducing the medical examiner role from April 2019. - Created:
- 25 Nov 2009
- Last Major Update:
- 21 Nov 2018
- Keywords:
- Medical Examiner, death certification, coroner, MCCD, death, cause of death, medical certificate, disposal of body, bereavement services, funeral directors, forms, discussion of death, cremation, sudden death, elderly, emergency department, GP, epilepsy, quality standards, service scrutiny, compliance, bereaved, jurisdiction, right to investigate, post mortem, human rights
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- Title:
- Medical Examiner (MEX)
- Description:
-
Medical Examiner is an e-learning programme commissioned by the Department of Health and Social Care and delivered by the Health Education England e-Learning for Healthcare programme (HEE e-LfH) and the Royal College of Pathologists Medical Examiners Committee. The programme supports the implementation of the Government’s reform of the process of death certification in England and Wales. This course will help to deliver the majority of the essential training required for newly appointed Medical Examiners.
The training modules will train Medical Examiners in conducting independent medical scrutiny of cause of death, in providing advice on the process of referral to the coroner and, where invited, in providing medical advice to coroners themselves.
The legislative framework for implementing these important reforms is included in the Coroners and Justice Act 2009.
Most of the material that you are about to access is entirely relevant to current practices surrounding death and interacting with the bereaved.
However, its key purpose is to provide learning for the new system of death certification for England and Wales, introducing the medical examiner role from April 2019. - Created:
- 25 Nov 2009
- Last Major Update:
- 21 Nov 2018
- Keywords:
- Medical Examiner, death certification, coroner, MCCD, death, cause of death, medical certificate, disposal of body, bereavement services, funeral directors, forms, discussion of death, cremation, sudden death, elderly, emergency department, GP, epilepsy, quality standards, service scrutiny, compliance, bereaved, jurisdiction, right to investigate, post mortem, human rights