Coroners

There are 640 coroners in England and Wales, but only 55% of coroners have written a Prevention of Future Deaths (PFD) report between July 2013 and last Sunday.

The writing of coroner reports varies, with some writing hundreds and others writing few.

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The 30 coroners who write the most PFD reports

Hover over the bars for exact figures.

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Sex

Forty per cent of coroners are male in England and Wales (i.e. had a male title, Mr or Sir, on the Coroners’ Society of England and Wales, 37% were female (i.e. titled Miss, Mrs, Ms or Dame), and 24% had either no title or a gender-neutral title (e.g. Dr, Prof).

Most PFDs (45%) are written by male coroners, 39% are written by female coroners, and 16% are written by coroners with either no title or a gender-neutral title.

Trends over time by sex are presented below.

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PFDs by coroner name and response rate

On analysis, we identified wide variations in the spellings and titles used for the same coroner name, which we have tried accounting for. The “no. PFDs” refers to the number of PFDs published by each coroner. The “no. recipients” is how many recipients were mentioned in the “this_report_is_being_sent_to” and “no. replies” is the number of recipients listed in the URLs with response letters. The “no. pending responses” is the number of PFDs that have not passed the 56-day limit for replies and “no. failed parses” is the number of received reports that we could not parse (i.e. read using code) from the “this_report_is_being_sent_to” column.