Coroner’s will make whatever inquiries are necessary to find out the cause of death, this includes ordering a post-mortem examination, obtaining witness statements and medical records, or holding an inquest.
Sudden or Unexpected Death
The issuing of the medical certificate is usually straight-forward, but if the death was sudden or unexpected, the Coroner may need to establish the cause and will arrange for a firm of funeral directors to remove the body for a post-mortem to be carried out.
Once this has been carried out, the funeral arrangements can take place.
Coroner’s Offices
CHESTERFIELD
St Mary’s Gate, Chesterfield, S41 7TD
01629 533405
ROTHERHAM
College Road, Doncaster, DN1 3HS
Telephone: 01302 737135
SHEFFIELD
Watery Street, Sheffield, S3 7ES
Telephone: 0114 273 8721
Deaths reported to a Coroner
A death is reported to a Coroner in the following situations:
- a doctor did not treat the person during their last illness
- a doctor did not see or treat the person for the condition from which they died within 28 days of death
- the cause of death was sudden, violent or unnatural such as an accident, or suicide
- the cause of death was murder
- the cause of death was an industrial disease of the lungs such as asbestosis
- the death occurred in any other circumstances that may require investigation