These pages provide guidance for doctors and nurse practitioners about when and how to report a death to the coroner.

• Your responsibilities

  Information on completing an MCCD, and what to do if the person who died is not your patient or you are unavailable.

• Deaths that do not need to be reported to the coroner

  Outlines what to do for natural cause deaths, certain age-related deaths, assisted dying and stillbirths.

• Deaths that must be reported to the coroner

  Describes the types of deaths that must be reported to the coroner.

• How to report a death to the coroner

  Links to the online report to coroner on Death Documents and what will happen next.

• Section 40 Coroners Act 2006 payments

  The Coroners (Doctors Fees) Regulations 2022 came into force on 1 July 2022.