Medical examiners

About the role and purpose of medical examiners.

Medical examiners are senior medical doctors, who independently examine causes of death outside of their usual duties. They are trained legally and clinically in the death certification process. 

Their purpose is to:

  • safeguard the public by ensuring independent examination of all deaths that do not need a coroner
     
  • ensure the appropriate direction of deaths to the coroner
     
  • improve the quality of death certification
     
  • improve the quality of data on deaths

Read about the NHS national medical examiner system and the extension of the medical examiners role. 

if you need to contact the Medical Examiner Team at Croydon University Hospital, please call 020 8401 3719 during office hours, Monday to Friday.