See also [[palliative care]], [cameron’s 28.2 - the coroner](x-devonthink-item://D6D8BC2E-B2A6-46F5-9F6C-DA3859973088?page=8) >If it is possible that a person has died or been seriously injured in suspicious circumstances, then it is prudent to ensure that the police are also notified. # Reportable deaths Victoria - violent, unnatural, unexpected deaths - These include homicide, [[Suicide Risk|suicide]], and drug, alcohol and poison-related deaths. - Accidents or injury-related deaths - road fatalities - public transport fatalities - accidental falls - workplace deaths - electrocutions - drownings - animal attacks - The person’s identity is not known - The cause of death is not known - When a medical practitioner cannot form an opinion about the probable cause of death and therefore cannot sign a death certificate. - healthcare-related deaths - dies unexpectedly during or following a medical procedure that a doctor would not have expected to result in death, or - was a patient under the Mental Health and Wellbeing Act 2022 immediately before their death. - Deaths in care or custody # Reportable deaths Tasmania See [report a death to coroner tasmania](https://www.magistratescourt.tas.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/358610/When-to-Report-a-Death-to-the-Coroner-.pdf) A death: - that appears to have been unexpected, unnatural or violent or to have resulted directly or indirectly from an accident or injury; or - that occurs during a medical procedure, or after a medical procedure where the death may be causally related to that procedure, and a medical practitioner would not, immediately before the procedure was undertaken, have reasonably expected the death; or - the cause of which is unknown; or - of a person who immediately before death was a person held in care or a person held in custody; Whether a death was “natural” in a medical or a legal sense is often very difficult to ascertain. There are often natural and unnatural causes contributing to a death, which may be present in various degrees. # reportable deaths from Dunn’s - a death in custody (police, mental health detection, correctional facility) - a death by unusual, unexpected, unnatural, violent or unknown cause - a death during, as a result of, or within 24 hours of a surgical, invasive or diagnostic procedure including the administration of an anaesthetic for the carrying out of the procedure - a death within 24 hours of being discharged from a hospital or having sought emergency treatment at a hospital - a death of a person under a guardianship or child protection order - ​a death on an aircraft or vessel with a place within the jurisdiction as its place of disembarkation - a patient death in an approved treatment centre under the Mental Health Act - ​a death in a hospital or treatment facility for the treatment for a drug addiction - ​a patient death in certain residential care facilities - ​if no certificate as to the cause of death has been issued to the Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages - ​death of a person with unknown identity - ​death of a person following voluntary assisted dying