Medical Examiner

Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Winchester; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

The Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a proactive and self-motivated doctor to join our team of medical examiners at the North & Mid Hampshire Medical Examiner Service. The role involves scrutinising non-coronial deaths and ensuring proper coroner referrals to support timely bereavement care.

You will work with Medical Examiner Officers across hospital and community settings, contributing to improved mortality data, governance, and patient safety.

Qualifications

• Governance experience would be a strong bonus.
• Experience in mortality or other case record reviews in secondary care or team meetings in primary care.
• Senior doctors from diverse clinical specialties in secondary and primary care.

Responsibilities

• provide independent scrutiny of non-coronial deaths
• ensure the appropriate referral of deaths to the coroner
• contribute towards a better service for the bereaved, including an opportunity for them to raise any concerns
• improve the quality of death certification
• support local learning and improvement by identifying matters that require escalation to local clinical governance and other processes
• improve the quality of mortality data

Skills

Governance experience

Mortality review

Self-motivation

Job description

“The next of kin are at the heart of everything we do”We are seeking to appoint a proactive and self-motivated doctor to join our team of medical examiners at North & Mid Hampshire Medical Examiner Service. Since 9 September 2024 when the service became statutory, all acute, non-acute and community deaths that do not require a coroner’s referral must be scrutinised by a medical examiner before the death can be registered. The successful applicant will

• provide independent scrutiny of non-coronial deaths
• ensure the appropriate referral of deaths to the coroner
• contribute towards a better service for the bereaved, including an opportunity for them to raise any concerns
• improve the quality of death certification
• support local learning and improvement by identifying matters that require escalation to local clinical governance and other processes
• improve the quality of mortality data

The ME service interacts with many clinical specialities from both the acute and non-acute setting, strengthening links between the health services, coroners' offices and register offices. Medical Examiners are senior doctors from a diverse variety of clinical specialties in secondary and primary care. Relevant governance experience would be a strong bonus. This could be mortality or other case record reviews in secondary care; or actively considering similar issues in the context of team meetings in primary care. You will work closely with our team of Medical Examiner Officers, who are vital to the efficient running of the service. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the major provider of hospital services to the population of North and Mid Hampshire and surrounding areas. The hospitals in Basingstoke and Winchester provide a comprehensive range of acute services as well as being a tertiary referral centre for colorectal, liver, peritoneal carcinomatosis, haemophilia and pseudomyxoma surgery. For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Lisa Birkett Job title: Lead Medical Examiner Officer Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01256 313236