{"id":490,"date":"2020-05-04T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/2020-5-20-medscapecoronersinquests\/"},"modified":"2020-05-04T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T22:00:00","slug":"2020-5-20-medscapecoronersinquests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/2020-5-20-medscapecoronersinquests\/","title":{"rendered":"DAUK in Medscape: our call for coroner\u2019s inquests into every healthcare worker death"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last week <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medscape.com\/viewarticle\/927478#vp_3\">we reported<\/a> on Doctors&#8217; Association UK&#8217;s (DAUK) concerns about guidance to coroners in England and Wales that seemed to suggest inquests were not an appropriate way to determine if PPE issues played a role in healthcare workers&#8217; deaths. DAUK has now <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheDA_UK\/status\/1257366216085311490\">received a letter<\/a> from the Chief Coroner clarifying that &#8220;inquests are not suitable forums to discuss national or high level policy matters&#8221;. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, Mark Lucraft QC wrote:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Coroners are independent judges. They make their judicial decisions independently on a case-by-case basis in accordance with the law and they exercise their judicial duty and discretion in relation to any death, including that of a healthcare worker, which is reported to them.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAUK\u2019s call for a coroner\u2019s inquest into every healthcare worker death is covered in Medscape along with our letter to the Chief Coroner.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,29],"tags":[30,38,39,51,32,35,42],"class_list":["post-490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learn-not-blame","category-protect-the-frontline","tag-coroners-inquests","tag-dauk","tag-doctors-association-uk","tag-medscape","tag-ppe","tag-protect-the-frontline","tag-the-doctors-association-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}