Hospital executive ‘repeatedly’ certified deaths outside the law, says inquiry into falsified certificates
The former administrator had engaged in a pattern of incorrectly certifying deaths: report.
Some 29 patient deaths at Launceston General Hospital will be referred to the coroner after a review concluded a former hospital executive repeatedly signed death certificates without authorisation.
The conclusions came just weeks after Dr Peter Renshaw was suspended under emergency powers amid allegations by a midwife that death certificates had been deliberately falsified to prevent scrutiny by the Tasmanian coroner.
