Shared ethical principles for everybody in health care: a working draft from the Tavistock Group Introduction A shared statement of ethical principles for those who shape and give health care

Abstract

Education and debateShared ethical principles for everybody in health care: a working draft from the Tavistock GroupThe expansion in healthcare delivery over the past 150 years has exacerbated many of the ethical tensions inherent in health care and has created new ones.To answer these problems, many groups of healthcare professionals have established separate codes of ethics for their own disciplines, but no shared code exists that might bring all stakeholders in health care into a more consistent moral framework.A multidisciplinary group therefore recently came together at Tavistock Square in London in an effort to prepare such a shared code.