how can I make someone respond to my letter

[ScouseBoy]

The informant may have been a doctor, hospital employee, etc. and therefore not allowed to give you any further information or they may simply have moved on since the death was registered.

However, there is no consistency  across  the NHS  on confidentiality issues. In my experience.

[heywood]

Hello,

You say the death is out by one year, it may be a different person which may also explain a reluctance to communicate.
Could you check for obituaries or death announcement in a local paper.
Might there be a will- if the deceased is an adult.

Regards
Heywood

[dawnsh]

The person of interest appeared to have died in 2001 and there may be grant of probate and will for this person. You can search here.

https://www.gov.uk/search-will-probate

A google search also reveals that you have been looking for this person and his mother for sometime, including posts on Ruislip Reunited and the letters page of Get West London which includes her married names and the name of another child.

If I were on the receiving end of a letter written to me in the capacity of informant on a death certificate (either as family member or medical professional) and you are not a family member, I wouldn’t respond.

You should be sending this information to his putative father and get him to write to the informant and apply for a copy of the grant.

With the further passage of time since his death, you should be hesitant in contacting anyone named in the will. Leave it to his birth family.

[LizzieW]

even now, I think some medical professionals  will  have a different view on confidentiality.

I have many examples  of were confidentiality is used detrimentally to the patients welfare. 

I used to send a Christmas Card to a friend of my parents (deceased), due to his age, this year I put my address on the back of the envelope.  This year the card was returned, the envelope just marked "Return to address overleaf".  I wrote to the Matron of the home where this man lived to ask if he'd died or been moved elsewhere, explaining that he was a friend of my parents and if he'd just been moved I didn't want him to think I'd forgotten him.  Seven months later I've had no response.  I can't think it would have been too difficult to let me know whether he'd died or not.  I don't know where I can look up deaths in 2012 or 2013 or 2014, (I know he was alive earlier than that because he wrote to me), apart from large libraries in London, Manchester etc. and as his wife had died and he had no children, I doubt an announcement would have been put in the local paper.