That makes sense. Having said this I find it odd that a totally private
matter, neither contractual nor statutory duty, is suddenly elevated to
this status. Particularly when there is significant disquiet about the
form as such (lnot the matter of cremation) and a fair number of people
been on record that the profession could simply cease to provide this
form until matters are finally improved. Is this pre-emptive? Will there
come a time when filling in of part C is also obligatory?
Peter
Declan Fox wrote:
> I can't remember, exactly. But I think it was me reading the proposed
> GMC guidance and the forms and thinking that if I could not give the
> right answers to allow cremation then that would mean that there was
> something _possibly_ suspicious about the death and someone would have
> to inform the coroner.
> Burying the deceased does not seem to be considered a suitable option
> by those who have made up their minds to have him/her cremated and it
> seems to me that the GMC is taking that line too---ie if the family
> want a cremation then the doctor _has_ to oblige and his only excuse
> for _not_ obliging is if he is unable to give the death a clean bill,
> as it were. In which case, in these post-Shipman days, that means
> calling the coroner.
>
> Declan
>
>
> <<<I still struggle ot understand why lack of crem form should lead to a
> coroner referral.
>
> I always thought if a crem form can not be signed the body will be
> enterred and that is the end of it.
>
> How did the coroner come into it?>>>
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