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Cremation form is no cash cow

REGARDING your article in the Hounslow Chronicle headlined 'Ash cash takings', all medical practitioners nationwide get a fee for signing a cremation form.

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00:00, 4 FEB 2010
Updated13:55, 30 SEP 2013

REGARDING your article in the Hounslow Chronicle headlined 'Ash cash takings', all medical practitioners nationwide get a fee for signing a cremation form.

This form is a very serious and legal document.

The suggestion that West Middlesex Hospital doctors are getting rich at the expense of grieving relatives is wrong and totally unfair.

Hopefully, you will make this clear to your readers.

MS A O'SHAUGHNESSY Hounslow

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