OVERVIEW: criteria include:
- any "unnatural" death as result of an accident or violence or suicide
- maternal death during pregnancy or childbirth,
- unexpected death attributable to a medical procedure or while affected by an anaesthetic.
- the death of any person while in official custody
- death where no death certificate can be provided
NB: "Death in custody" does not include patients who are in institutional care via the EPOA provisions of the Protection of Personal & Property Rights Act