Death Certificates

(asked on 2nd February 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, for what reason doctors receive extra payments for signing death certificates.


Answered by
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Jane Ellison
This question was answered on 9th February 2015

When a patient dies it is the statutory duty of the doctor who has attended the patient in the last illness to issue a Medical Certificate of Cause of Death (MCCD). There is no fee payable for completing the MCCD.

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