Medical Examiner inLondon inLondon PUBLISHED 5 NOV 2024

We have an exciting opportunity to be part of our team of medical examiners and would like to invite applications from consultants and General Practitioners to join our Medical Examiner service.

From 9th September 2024, it will be a legal requirement for all deaths in any healthcare setting not investigated by a coroner to be reviewed by the medical examiner. The Medical Examiner system offers independent scrutiny of deaths, gives bereaved people a voice, and provides them with support.

Medical examiners are accountable to medical directors within trusts but also have a separate professional line of accountability to the Lead Medical Examiner and National/Regional Medical Examiners.

At present, the service is reviewing all deaths at University College London Hospitals, Great Ormond Street Hospital, the Royal Marsden Hospitals, Moorfields Eye Hospital and the Camden community. We have established excellent working relationships with local GPs, care homes and registrars. We are looking to fill regular sessions on Monday as well as some flexibility throughout the week, mainly on Tuesdays and Thursdays. We will give priority to those who have completed their ME training.

Please have a look at the Royal College of Pathologists website for further information on the role or contact Dr Sally Wilson, Lead Medical Examiner ) to discuss the role. Please discuss with your DCD or Practice Leadprior to finalising your decision to put in an expression of interest to understand how this role could be accommodated within your current role.

Candidates must have successfully completed the mandatory e-learning modules online (free of charge) and attend a face-to-face training session at the Royal College of Pathologists, London, paid for by the Trust, within the first three months in post.

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.

We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:

  • University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)
  • National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
  • Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals
  • University College Hospital Grafton Way Building
  • Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
  • University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre
  • The Hospital for Tropical Diseases
  • University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street

We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women’s health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.

We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2and indirect emissions by 2040.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Sally Wilson Job title: Lead Medical Examiner Email address:
We have an exciting opportunity to be part of our team of medical examiners and would like to invite applications from consultants and General Practitioners to join our Medical Examiner service.

From 9th September 2024, it will be a legal requirement for all deaths in any healthcare setting not investigated by a coroner to be reviewed by the medical examiner. The Medical Examiner system offers independent scrutiny of deaths, gives bereaved people a voice, and provides them with support.

Medical examiners are accountable to medical directors within trusts but also have a separate professional line of accountability to the Lead Medical Examiner and National/Regional Medical Examiners.

At present, the service is reviewing all deaths at University College London Hospitals, Great Ormond Street Hospital, the Royal Marsden Hospitals, Moorfields Eye Hospital and the Camden community. We have established excellent working relationships with local GPs, care homes and registrars. We are looking to fill regular sessions on Monday as well as some flexibility throughout the week, mainly on Tuesdays and Thursdays. We will give priority to those who have completed their ME training.

Please have a look at the Royal College of Pathologists website for further information on the role or contact Dr Sally Wilson, Lead Medical Examiner ) to discuss the role. Please discuss with your DCD or Practice Leadprior to finalising your decision to put in an expression of interest to understand how this role could be accommodated within your current role.

Candidates must have successfully completed the mandatory e-learning modules online (free of charge) and attend a face-to-face training session at the Royal College of Pathologists, London, paid for by the Trust, within the first three months in post.

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.

We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:

  • University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)
  • National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
  • Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals
  • University College Hospital Grafton Way Building
  • Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
  • University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre
  • The Hospital for Tropical Diseases
  • University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street

We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women’s health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.

We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2and indirect emissions by 2040.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Sally Wilson Job title: Lead Medical Examiner Email address:


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