“Achieving accuracy of Medical Certificates of Cause of Death is vital to the health of the nation and is core to medical examiner work. The Cause of death list has an important part to play, also helping remind which deaths must be notified to a senior coroner. Publication enables all involved; registrars, doctors, coroners and coroners’ officers to speak from the same page. This is very welcome, and I am delighted the Royal College of Pathologists brings medical expertise leading the Cause of Death List to greater prominence.”