The deaths that are unnecessarily clogging the coroner's office

By Harriet Alexander
Updated November 11 2017 - 7:53am, first published 7:48am
BRISBANE. NEWS.
Photograph taken by Michelle Smith on Friday 13th February 2009.
Jayant Patel arrives at the Brisbane Magistrates Court on the fourth day of the committal hearing against the former Bundaberg Base Hospital surgeon.
BRISBANE. NEWS. Photograph taken by Michelle Smith on Friday 13th February 2009. Jayant Patel arrives at the Brisbane Magistrates Court on the fourth day of the committal hearing against the former Bundaberg Base Hospital surgeon.

The NSW Coroner's Office is clogged with deaths from natural causes that may have been unnecessarily reported, causing undue distress to grieving families, delaying funerals and diverting resources from genuinely perplexing cases.

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