Shared ethical principles for everybody in health care

Smith, Richard
Hiatt, Howard
Berwick, Donald

Richard Smith, Editor, British Medical Journal, Howard Hiatt, Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston MA, USA, Donald Berwick, President, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Boston MA, USA.
Correspondence to: Dr Berwick [email protected]

Nursing Standard 13(19):p 32-33, January-February 27 2, 1999.

In this report the authors introduce the first step in discussing a shared code of ethics across all medical disciplines.The Tavistock Group has published a shared statement of ethical principles, and June Andrews, RCN Scottish secretary, provides a commentary (pages 34-36).