Pathology services

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Walsall Council in collaboration with Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council are seeking bids to provide post mortem services including the coronial post mortem work and management of bodies and storage viewing provision around the hospital function, relating to deaths occurring in Walsall Borough and Sandwell Borough. A significant factor should be to serve the needs of bereaved relatives by ensuring a fast turnaround time to allow for registration of death and progression of funeral arrangements especially where cultural and or religious requirements are involved. Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council in collaboration with Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council (referenced jointly as ‘the Council's’) are seeking bids from parties suitably experienced, qualified and resourced to provide mortuary facilities and pathology services which includes coronial post mortem work, management of bodies and storage / viewing provision relating to deaths occurring in Walsall Borough and Sandwell Borough. A significant factor should be to serve the needs of bereaved relatives by ensuring a fast turnaround time to allow for registration of death and progression of funeral arrangements especially where cultural and/or religious requirements are involved. The service delivery will require an on-call service for the release of bodies following referral to the coroner to support the enhanced burial service provided by the Council's with basic secretarial support to provide receipt of communications from coroners officers or staff, data entry, recording of enquiry and/or inquest dates in consultants diaries, searching for hospital notes and collating of information as required In the case of Walsall Council; it is intended that the provision of these services will commence on 1.4.2017 and remain in place for a period of 36 month with the option to extend service provision for a further 12 months period. The optional extension is not guaranteed. Mortuary facilities and pathology services for Walsall and Sandwell Council. Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council in collaboration with Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council (referenced jointly as ‘the Council's’) are seeking bids from parties suitably experienced, qualified and resourced to provide mortuary facilities and pathology services which includes coronial post mortem work, management of bodies and storage / viewing provision relating to deaths occurring in Walsall Borough and Sandwell Borough. A significant factor should be to serve the needs of bereaved relatives by ensuring a fast turnaround time to allow for registration of death and progression of funeral arrangements especially where cultural and/or religious requirements are involved. The service delivery will require an on-call service for the release of bodies following referral to the coroner to support the enhanced burial service provided by the Council's with basic secretarial support to provide receipt of communications from coroners officers or staff, data entry, recording of enquiry and/or inquest dates in consultants diaries, searching for hospital notes and collating of information as required.