Can UK clinical ethics committees improve quality of care?

Journal article

Failings in patient care and quality in NHS Trusts have become a recurring theme over the past few years. In this paper, we examine the Care Quality Commission's Guidance about Compliance: Essential Standards of Quality and Safety and ask how NHS Trusts might be better supported in fulfilling the regulations specified therein. We argue that clinical ethics committees (CECs) have a role to play in this regard. We make this argument by attending to the many ethical elements that are highlighted...

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Authors: McClimans, L; Slowther, A; Parker, M

• Journal: HEC forum : an interdisciplinary journal on hospitals' ethical and legal issues
• Volume: 24
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 139-147
• Publication date: 2012-06-01
• DOI: 10.1007/s10730-012-9175-z
• EISSN: 1572-8498
• ISSN: 0956-2737
• Language: English
• Keywords: Great Britain; Quality Improvement; Quality of Health Care; Ethics Committees, Clinical; State Medicine; Hospitals, Public; Guideline Adherence