Our Bereavement Service
We recognise that care for our patients and their family continues even after death. The experienced Bereavement Care team at the Trust provides a caring and compassionate service, offering support and reassurance, information and guidance.
Both the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and the Princess Royal Hospital provides a Medical Examiner service, which is a national system for reviewing deaths that occur in hospital. You can find out more information about this service here.
The Bereavement Office will work with the Medical Examiner Service to complete the Medical Certificate of Cause of Death (MCCD), and aim to do this within 1-2 working days after your relative/loved one has died.
In some cases, the Medical Examiner may need to speak to the Coroner’s Office first, and when this happens a short delay may occur before the Bereavement Office can issue the certificate.
Key Info
Contact Us
Royal Shrewsbury Hospital
The Bereavement Office is available during normal office hours, Monday to Friday 9am-5pm
Tel: 01743 261384
Princess Royal Hospital
The Bereavement Office is available during normal office hours, Monday to Friday 9am-5pm
Tel: 01952 641222 ext. 4741
Email for both offices: sath.bereavement@nhs.net
Both offices are closed on the weekend and bank holidays
Bereavement Booklets
We will of course, keep you informed of this. If the death has been reported to the Coroner’s Office, you will be advised of what will happen next. Once the MCCD has been completed, the bereavement office will send it to the local registry office electronically and you will be notified when this has been done. The Registrar will then contact you separately, to arrange for your to register the death.
In order to find out further information linked to this page we have bereavement booklets. You may also wish to make contact with the bereavement office, this can be done via on the contact details on this page either by telephone or via our central email address.