Tracking deaths, part 1: Coroners

Who's preventing future deaths?

Coroners hold inquests to understand the causes of unnatural deaths. They help identify who died, how they came to die, and when and where the death occurred.

In England and Wales, laws state that coroners also have a role in the prevention of similar deaths via the writing of PFDs. But across the 32,000 inquests open every year, only 1.4% of inquests h…