Pathology Handbook - Mortuary and Bereavement Services

Technical advice

Clinical advice               

Types of services offered by the laboratory

• Storage of the deceased whilst awaiting death certification
• Overseeing the completion of death certificates/ cremation forms for collection by relatives in order to register deaths
• Release of the deceased to funeral directors
• Post mortem examinations
• Sensitive disposal of foetal remains/return to parents on request via completion of consent documentation