NI: Northern Ireland will perform child post-mortems in England from 2019
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Post-mortem examinations of infants in Northern Ireland will be conducted in England from 2019 onwards, a BBC investigation has revealed.
The bodies of babies who require a post-mortem examination, either on the request of the parents or the instruction of a coroner, will have to be transported to Liverpool.
Belfast Health and Social Care Trust will no longer be able to provide a paediatric pathologist service because its single remaining consultant will leave post in February 2019.
From January, the service will be performed by Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust in Liverpool instead.
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