Mortuary errors 'avoidable if bodies treated like living patients'

Many serious mistakes – including identity mix-ups – could be avoided, according to study of 132 incidents reported in England

Serious mistakes made in mortuaries – including identity mix-ups - might be avoided if the deceased received the sort of management standards given to the living, according to a study.

Postmortems on the wrong bodies, and even people being buried or cremated by the wrong family, are some of the errors spotted by researchers who looked into 132 incidents reported in England to a national NHS database between 1 April 2002 and 31 March 2013.

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