Death Certification Review Service Annual Report: 2016–2017
This report marks the end of the Death Certification Review Service's second year of operation, delivering a national system of proportionate, independent scrutiny of those deaths in Scotland not reported to the Procurator Fiscal.
The aims of the Death Certification Review Service are to improve:
1) the quality and accuracy of MCCDs
2) public health information about causes of death in Scotland
3) clinical governance in relation to death certification.