Closed consultation

Releasing a dead body from hospital: authorisation form

• From: Department of Health and Social Care
• Published: 13 January 2015

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Summary

Seeks views on a good practice form to help hospitals put in place a process for releasing bodies to funeral directors or the bereaved.

This consultation ran from
13 January 2015 to 11:45pm on 6 April 2015

Consultation description

DH, with partners, has developed a form to help hospitals have a more consistent, quality-controlled, and timely process to release bodies. We want to know what you think of the form.

This form encourages good practice. There is no legal requirement for hospitals to see the registrar’s Certificate for Burial and Cremation (the ‘Green Form’) before agreeing to release a body. Having this requirement can lead to delays with funeral arrangements and can cause unnecessary distress to the bereaved.

Documents

Release of a body from hospital: good practice form

PDF, 99.7 KB, 9 pages

Form for the release of a body from hospital

MS Word Document, 120 KB

Published 13 January 2015