This is a grossly irresponsible tweet. You know full well multiple causes of a death can be certified. And yet - as hearsay, no evidence - you allege NHS doctors are breaking the law to miscertify patient deaths. This is so unprofessional. Report to @gmcuk if genuine concerns.
For those concerned by this tweet, death certificates allow multiple illnesses to be recorded as causes of death. When a cancer patient dies from Covid-19, one or both conditions may be included, depending on the nature and level of the contribution to the death caused by each.
Doctors take the job of completing death certificates immensely seriously & weight very carefully indeed which conditions to include and why. These are legal documents of enormous importance to families. Getting it right matters to us deeply.
Sadly antigen testing for Covid-19 only has around 70% accuracy currently, meaning not all cases are picked up. Sometimes we are extremely confident a patient has the infection on clinical & radiological grounds & rightly record it as a cause of death.
This isn’t suspicious, as Prof Sikora implies. It’s good, careful medicine. There is no conspiracy theory here - & doctors have a duty not to create/stir one. Otherwise they risk both alarming the population and undermining the medical profession. Both highly inappropriate.
