Booking a death registration appointment
Essential maintenance on Tuesday 30 April
Due to essential maintenance to our diary system on Tuesday 30 April, you will not be able to book a birth or death appointment from 12noon onwards. Please try again on Wednesday 1 May. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
Please note
Deaths are required by law to be registered within five days (including Weekends and Bank Holidays) unless the coroner is involved.
Before booking an appointment with Southampton Register Office, please check who you should register the death with.
For any baby/child deaths or stillbirths, please contact us directly on deathregistrations@southampton.gov.uk.
Booking an appointment with Southampton Register Office
The appointment booking system will only allow you to book an appointment if the paperwork has been processed from the GP surgery, the Medical Examiner’s Office and/or the Coroner’s Office. and all statutory checks have been completed and uploaded to the appointment booking system. (i.e. it is ready to register).
All medical certificates of cause of death (MCCD) will be electronically scanned directly to us from the GP surgery or Medical Examiner’s Office at the hospital. You should not receive the original paperwork in any case. The coroner’s office will also scan their paperwork directly to us.
When you enter the details of the deceased, the booking system will link this to any paperwork we may hold under the same details you have entered and allow you to book the appointment for the death registration.
Unfortunately, if the details you have entered do not match to any paperwork we hold, no appointment can be made. This could be down to a spelling on names and/or the date of death differing or simply the paperwork has not yet been processed and uploaded.
Processing times for the paperwork once received, are during normal office hours Monday to Thursday until 3.30pm and until 2pm on Fridays (not including Bank Holidays). If paperwork is received after the cut off times, it will not be processed until the next working day. This is to ensure all the statutory checks have been made and that the appointment can go ahead. Please allow at least one working day before trying to book again especially if you are trying to book outside of these processing times.
Should you have any queries or concerns, please contact the office on deathregistrations@southampton.gov.uk.
Please read all of the below before booking your appointment
What happens at the office? SHOW
Who can attend? SHOW
What documents do you need to register a death? SHOW
What will the registrar need to know? SHOW
What documents will I recieve? SHOW
Before you register a death
You won't be able to save this form to complete later, so please allow yourself at least five minutes to fill in the form.
View terms and conditions for death appointments.
Customer survey
After attending your appointment, please fill in our customer survey. We are always interested in your feedback and ideas and appreciate your comments.
