Question follow-through · 26955
Post-mortems
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps with Cabinet colleagues to help reduce the turnaround times for (a) hospital and (b) HM Coroner's Office post mortems in (i) neonatal and paediatric and (ii) other cases.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 28 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 30 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 12 Feb 2025 · 15 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
28 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps with Cabinet colleagues to help reduce the turnaround times for (a) hospital and (b) HM Coroner's Office post mortems in (i) neonatal and paediatric and (ii) other cases.
30 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Feb 2025
Answer published
Workforce shortages in paediatric and perinatal pathology have led to longer turnaround times for hospital post-mortem reports in some areas of England. NHS England has established a national work programme to address these shortages. A £20,000 recruitmen...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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