The Code requires, amongst other matters, that hospitals carrying out non-coronial post-mortem examinations have both a "consent form" and an "information document" which are defined as follows –

"consent form" means a document used by a hospital carrying out non-coronial post-mortem examinations to record the informed decisions of the senior available next of kin and other matters relevant to the authorisation of such a post-mortem examination;

"information document" means a document used by a hospital carrying out non-coronial post-mortem examinations to provide relevant information to the senior available next of kin about post-mortem examination practices and procedures;"
The Code requires that these documents be approved for use by the Deputy Director General, Health Care.

Suitable documents have been developed by a small Working Group of officers from the Department, the teaching hospitals and PathWest (previously named PathCentre). Due to the different nature of post-mortems performed at King Edward Memorial Hospital and Princess Margaret Hospital a separate set of documents has been developed for use in those hospitals and a generic set prepared for use by the other facilities.

Copies of these approved documents are available below.