225 Mr. O’Dowd asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if all nursing homes here have complied with directions from coroners from 2001 to date which were to be implemented rigorously with regard to procedures to be followed in the event of the death of a resident of a nursing home, that bodies must not be removed for burial without first being certified dead by a doctor; and that in the circumstances the coroner should be notified if a patient dies and there is no documented record of a consultation with their GP during the four weeks prior to death, if a patient dies and there is any history of injury in the days prior to death, if the patient dies and the cause of death is not obvious; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24131/05]

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225 Mr. O’Dowd asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if all nursing homes here have complied with directions from coroners from 2001 to date which were to be implemented rigorously with regard to procedures to be followed in the event of the death of a resident of a nursing home, that bodies must not be removed for burial without first being certified dead by a doctor; and that in the circumstances the coroner should be notified if a patient dies and there is no documented record of a consultation with their GP during the four weeks prior to death, if a patient dies and there is any history of injury in the days prior to death, if the patient dies and the cause of death is not obvious; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24131/05]

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1. 30 June 2005

   Nursing Homes.

   225 Mr. O’Dowd asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if all nursing homes here have complied with directions from coroners from 2001 to date which were to be implemented rigorously with regard to procedures to be followed in the event of the death of a resident of a nursing home, that bodies must not be removed for burial without first being certified dead by a doctor; and that in the circumstances the coroner should be notified if a patient dies and there is no documented record of a consultation with their GP during the four weeks prior to death, if a patient dies and there is any history of injury in the days prior to death, if the patient dies and the cause of death is not obvious; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24131/05]

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