Friday, August 04, 2006

Refom of the coroners' system and death certification / Constitutional Affairs Select Committee, Eighth Report - 1 Aug 2006

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmselect/cmconst/902/90202.htm
"The Committee’s report on “Reform of the Coroners’ System and Death Certification”, published says that although the Government’s recently published draft Bill on Coroners Reform will do much to improve the coronial system, it will do nothing to remedy the “critical defects in the death certification system”. Dame Janet Smith, chair of the Shipman Inquiry, said in her evidence to the Committee that the reforms proposed in the Bill “would go no way at all towards remedying the defects that failed to detect or deter Shipman. If these reforms go through – and they are good in themselves and I have no criticism of them in themselves – there could still be a Shipman out there killing patients”.
PDF - http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmselect/cmconst/902/902i.pdf