Preventing Future Deaths from Medicines: Responses to Coroners’ Concerns in England and Wales (8 October 2018)

Summary

Coroners inquire into sudden, unexpected, or unnatural deaths. We have previously established 99 cases (100 deaths) in England and Wales in which medicines or part of the medication process or both were mentioned in coroners’ ‘Regulation 28 Reports to Prevent Future Deaths’ (coroners’ reports).

Authors of this paper, published in Drug Safety, aimed to see what responses were made by National Health Service (NHS) organisations and others to these 99 coroners’ reports.