Target learners: All clinical and non-clinicians involved in after death care of Covid-19 patients and their families
This is one of a series of educational resources aimed at helping you and your colleagues understand and implement different parts of the Somerset Covid-19 plans for end of life.
This slide set, from Dr Laura Cochran, palliative care doctor at St Margaret’s Hospice, gives important information from a Somerset perspective in all these important areas:
- Process immediately after death
- MCCD, medical certificate of cause of death
- Registering the death
- Notification of COVID-19 deaths
- Changes to cremation process
- Spiritual care – local support
- Bereavement care – local support
Verification of death is addressed in a separate video tutorial
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