Hospital deaths not referred to Coroner
PA Auckland Three deaths in Middlemore Hospital which are the subject of a Ministerial inquiry have not been referred to the Coroner. The Auckland Coroner, Mr Stephen Osborne, said he would have expected to have carried out inquests into the deaths if they were associated with staff shortages and lack of facilities, as a senior professor has alleged. “If the deaths were in the preventable category I would have expected them to be referred to me. The law says I must inquire into unnatural deaths,” he said. Mr Osborne said he could still be called on to conduct inquests if evidence showed that the deaths could have been prevented.
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