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ModerateEthics & ProfessionalismDeath certificationuk-plab-1

A 79-year-old man with advanced heart failure and dementia dies peacefully on the ward after a period of gradual decline. You were one of the doctors who reviewed him several times during this admission but not in the last 24 hours. There are no suspicious circumstances. Under current death certification reforms in England and Wales, who is permitted to complete the Medical Certificate of Cause of Death (MCCD)?

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