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Autopsy guidelines series
The College's autopsy guidelines enable pathologists to deal with non-forensic consent and Coroners’ post-mortem examinations to a consistently high standard. They are crucial for ensuring standardised, high-quality procedures in pathology, providing a benchmark that upholds the accuracy and reliability of autopsy results.
These autopsy guidelines are technical documents which have been written as an aid for practising pathologists carrying out a coroners or procurator fiscal post mortem. As such, this guidance may contain some distressing information and is not intended for friends and relatives of the deceased.
There is some information about post-mortems for friends and relatives on our website and the Human Tissue Authority website.
Published documents
New briefing on COVID-19 – Autopsy practice relating to possible cases of COVID-19
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G100 Guidelines on autopsy practice: Maternal death
January 2024
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Guidelines on autopsy practice: Third trimester antepartum and intrapartum stillbirth
This guideline has now ceased and new series is in development
June 2017
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Guidelines on autopsy practice: Fetal autopsy (2nd trimester fetal loss and termination of pregnancy for congenital anomaly)
This guideline has now ceased and new series is in development
June 2017
Documents under consultation
Members can comment on draft documents here.