Toxicology Testing for HM Coroners

Concepts

• pathology services
• toxicological analysis
• coroner
• hm coroners
• toxicology testing
• the senior coroner
• a toxicology service
• the coroner
• testing
• coroners

Location

Description

The Council is responsible for meeting all the costs of the service and for arranging a toxicology service to support the needs of the Senior Coroner (the Coroner). The Coroner is required in some circumstances to establish the cause of a person's death. The Coroner will ask a pathologist to conduct an examination to establish the cause of death, as part of that examination the pathologist may request that samples taken at examination are submitted for toxicological analysis.

CPV Codes

• 85111800 - Pathology services