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When someone dies at home or in a residential/nursing home, the doctor who was treating the deceased will issue a medical certificate stating the cause of death.
This medical certificate will be available for the relatives to collect normally from the deceased's General Practitioner.
The person who will be registering the death must take this certificate to the registrar’s office within the district of the death.
If a death occurs in hospital, the ward staff will inform you which office will be dealing with the death certificate and their contact number to arrange collection.
Occasionally, if the death was sudden or the doctor treating the deceased is unavailable, it may not be possible for a medical certificate of cause of death to be issued.
If this happens, the death will have to be reported to the coroner, which may lead to a delay in registering the death.
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