Five recommendations to prevent future deaths: Written evidence for the Parliamentary follow-up Inquiry to The Coroner Service (Georgia Richards, 9 February 2024)

Summary

In November 2023, the Parliament’s Justice Select Committee launched a follow-up inquiry to The Coroner Service, to examine changes and progress since the first inquiry in 2020-2021.

Content

Dr Georgia Richards responded to the call for evidence, sharing her work of the Preventable Deaths Tracker and providing five recommendations:

1. Robust real-time statistics.
2. Categorisation of deaths.
3. Variations in writing reports.
4. Variations in responding to reports.
5. Research using coroner reports.

This has now been published: https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/127982/pdf/