Inquest into the death of Maluovailoa Tafau

Case Number: 2017/142803

Date of Findings: 14 October 2022

Magistrate: Deputy State Coroner, Magistrate Derek Lee

Catchwords: CORONIAL LAW – cause and manner of death, Patient Self-Referral Form, patient self-referral for health assessment, infective endocarditis, rheumatic heart disease, access to adolescent health records

Responses

Recommendations

To the Chief Executive, Justice Health & Forensic Mental Health Network:

1. I recommend that consideration be given to whether adolescent health records of adult patients in custody should be made more readily accessible to treating clinicians and, if so, how such access can be facilitated.