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This conference focuses on investigating and learning from deaths in the community/primary care.
By 2024, all deaths in the community or acute settings that do not required to be referred to the coroner (non-coronial deaths) will need to be scrutinised by a medical examiner. The conference focuses on the extension of the Medical Examiner role to cover deaths occurring in the community and the role of the GP in working with the Medical Examiner to learn from deaths and to identify constructive learning to improve care for patients.
"The majority of in-hospital deaths are now scrutinised and the process is rolling out to include all community deaths. It is expected that the process will become statutory by 2024 when every death within England and Wales will be reviewed either by the Medical Examiner or HM Coroner."
The Medical Examiner: reviewing all non-coronial deaths in England and Wales, July 2023 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mpdhp.2023.04.001)
“Medical examiners will look at causes of all deaths not investigated by the coroner to help prevent criminal activity and poor practice… Medical examiners will strengthen safeguards by scrutinising how people have died prior to registration and make sure the right deaths are referred to coroners.”
Department of Health and Social Care 14th December 2023
“The move to a statutory system in 2024 will further strengthen those safeguards, ensuring that all deaths are reviewed and the voices of all bereaved people are heard.”
Dr Suzy Lishman, Senior Medical Adviser on Medical Examiners for the Royal College of Pathologists 14th December 2023
This conference will enable you to:
Network with colleagues who are working to improve practice in the investigation and learning from deaths in the community
Reflect on the lived experience of a carer on how we can best involve bereaved relatives
Understand the role of the Medical Examiner in Primary/Community care and how they can support GPs
Update your knowledge on the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF)
Understand national developments and national reporting and notification requirements, including the advice from a current Coroner
Identification and reporting of deaths and the role of the Medical Examiner
Reflect on how you improve involvement of families and carers
Effectively support staff when a death occurs including supporting staff through coroner inquests
Self assess your learning from deaths process and ensure investigations lead to change
Supports CPD professional development and acts as revalidation evidence. This course provides 5 Hrs training for CPD subject to peer group approval for revalidation purposes
