TITLE:
Post Mid-Staffordshire Inquiries Reaction, in and about the National Health Service (NHS), England. The Missing Pieces: Organizational, Care and Virtue Ethics Perspectives
AUTHORS:
Albert Coleman
KEYWORDS:
Health Professionals, Quality of Care, Rights, Health Care Ethics
JOURNAL NAME:
International Journal of Clinical Medicine,
Vol.5 No.16,
August
25,
2014
ABSTRACT: The release of the
Mid Staffordshire hospital report otherwise called the Francis report once
again ignited the debate about the issue of abuse of especially vulnerable
patients, while navigating the care pathway as inpatients in hospitals; within
the National health service (NHS), England. Once more the official reaction
from the NHS directorate is more “standards” to monitor failed standards in
patient care. Of interest in the official responses so far, are the unheard
voices addressing the issue of healthcare and organizational ethics concerns
that need revisiting. This article seeks to revisit practice, systems and care
issues leading to incidents of the type of the Staffordshire abuses, and the
important but yet unheralded place of organizational and care ethics in helping
to curb such abuses from re-occurring.