Who registers death.

[VICTORIA]

Can anyone help please. If someone dies in a care home ( 2004 ) who registers death ? Relative ? or person in charge of nursing home.
Victoria

[greenrig]

Could be anyone. If there was a relative ( or friend, or neighbour) on hand then maybe them. Failing that maybe an official of the Care Home.

[stanmapstone]

The following people can register a death:
a relative
someone who was with the person when they died
someone who lives at the address where the person died
someone who is arranging the funeral (but not the undertaker)

Stan

[VICTORIA]

Thank You. much obliged.
Victoria

[Edward Scott]

Whoever is registering the death needs a document from the deceased's doctor, this can be issued within a day or so if a coroner is not going to be involved.

More info here https://www.gov.uk/after-a-death

rgds

Edward

[Gillg]

Whoever is registering the death needs a document from the deceased's doctor, this can be issued within a day or so if a coroner is not going to be involved.

More info here https://www.gov.uk/after-a-death

rgds

Edward

I was with my mother when she died in a care home during the night.  Her GP, who came the following morning, handed me the medical death certificate, naming me and the care worker who was with me as witnesses, and I registered her death and am named on the official death certificate as the informant.

[pharmaT]

I used to work in a care home.  Those with families it was their family who registered the death.  Some of those without family would have a solicitor appointed as their power of attorney and the solicitor would register the death.  In the absence of anyone else the care home manager often registered the death

[majm]

I realise you are talking about a U.K death but in other countries the practicals can be different. 

For example in Nw South Wales, Australia, it is the responsibilty of the funeral director,  and from a family history perspective this is good as you get the equivalent of the English death registration and the 'burial' order AND the details of the deceased's parents, marriage/s and offspring ... 

Victoria, Australia certificates are even more detailed,  Queensland and Western Australia similar to NSW.

New Zealand BDM are very detailed too


JM

[stanmapstone]

For a list of people qualified to give information concerning the death, see the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953
Information concerning death in a house. http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/1-2/20/section/16
Information concerning other deaths. http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/1-2/20/section/17


Stan