“The service is patchy. We will do everything we can to support the government’s efforts to make the coroner system everywhere smarter.”
Professor David Katz, chairman of the UK Jewish Medical Association, reportedly emphasised the need for a comprehensive out-of-hours service to ensure that deceased community members can be buried quickly.
The professor, who is the Board’s medical advisor, also asked that minimally invasive autopsies be more widely available.
In July, a High Court judge backed the religious right of Jews and Muslims to ask for a post-mortem to be carried out by scan rather than cutting up open the body.
The consultation will close on December 31.
