title: Professionalism in practice: the Coroner's Court.
abstract: A coroner recently declared a district nursing service as unfit for purpose following the death of a patient and held the care given by district nurses was unprofessional and contributed to the patient's decline and death. In this article Richard Griffith considers the coroners concerns in relation to the professional standards imposed on district nurses.
authors.affiliation: Senior Lecturer in Health Law, College of Health Science, Swansea University.
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Griffith
mesh_terms: D002423:Cause of Death; D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000592:standards*; D003334:Coroners and Medical Examiners; D003704:Dementia / Q000451:nursing*; D006801:Humans; D007603:Jurisprudence; D008318:Malpractice / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D000068616:Professionalism / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000592:standards*
keywords: Coroner's court; NMC Code; fundamental standards; professionalism