Medical Examiner

We are seeking to appoint a proactive and self-motivated Medical Examiner to join our team of Medical Examiners to provide independent scrutiny of the causes of death. Currently this involves all hospital deaths, along with a proportion of deaths in non-acute and community setting. From 9 September 2024 the Medical Examiner Service will become statutory and all non-coroneral deaths will come through the Medical Examiner Service.

You will work closely with the Medical Examiner Officers and will report to the Lead Medical Examiner.

An individual ME works on average 4 hours per week, which could be 4 hours on a Monday, Wednesday and Friday or 2 hours per day on two other weekdays, provided flexibly.

MEs are senior doctors in secondary and primary care, and we are building a team with a broad mix of skills. You could be a Consultant or SAS doctor from within or outside of the Trust, or a General Practitioner., The successful applicant will

• provide greater safeguards for the public by ensuring independent scrutiny of all non-coronial deaths


• ensure the appropriate direction of deaths to the coroner


• provide a better service for the bereaved and an opportunity for them to raise any concerns to a doctor not involved in the care of the decreased


• improve the quality of death certification


• improve the quality of mortality data
  
  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.