[Being a GP] [The GP consultation] [Clinical Ethics and Values] [Evidence based health care] [Clinical Governance] [Equality and diversity]

[Management in primary care] [Information technology] [Research and academic activity]     

[Patient Safety Management] [Healthy living] [Genetics] [Acutely ill People] [Children & Young People] [Older Adults] [Women's health] [Men's health]

[Sexual Health] [Cancer & Palliative Care] [Mental Health Problems] [Drugs and Alcohol] [Learning Disabilities] [Respiratory] [Cardiovascular] [Gastroenterology] [Ophthalmology] [Neurology] [ENT & Facial] [Rheumatology and Trauma] [Dermatology] [Metabolic]                    

[Teaching, mentorship and clinical supervision]

Clinical Ethics and Values   Direct link to the Clinical Ethics and Values curriculum

Material specific for the Nottingham VTS

• Information relating to the curtailment of civil liberties with reference to the Mental Capacity Act 2005

  • Flowchart

  • Safeguards to be in place (PowerPoint document)

  • Amendments to the Mental Capacity act 2005 (PowerPoint document)

  • Checklist

  • The act itself relating to the deprivation of liberty (PowerPoint document)

Web resources

• National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature: www.georgetown.edu/research/nrcbl . The website for the largest library in medical ethics with useful bibliographies, search tools, educational material and web links.

• Social Science Information Gateway: www.sosig.ac.uk . A comprehensive and well-classified gateway to web resources in social sciences including ethics and law.

• The Nuffield Trust Bioethics Reports: www.nuffieldbioethics.org . Full text of these significant reports available online.

Journals

• Journal of Medical Ethics: www.jmedethics.com . Provides a useful list of classified websites, as well as a good selection of articles from the journal and abstracts for most articles published since 1990. This is also the website for the journal Medical Humanities.

• Clinical Ethics: www.rsmpress.co.uk/ce.htm . Aimed at practising clinicians and researchers. This journal has practically focused articles on ethical and legal issues in health care.

• Bioethics: www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk  (then follow links to journal).

Relevant texts

Professional ethics

• BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. Medical Ethics Today. The BMA’s handbook of medical ethics and law (2nd edn) London: BMA, 2004

Medical ethics

• BATTIN M, RHODES R, SILVERS A (eds). Medicine and Social Justice New York: Oxford University Press, 2002

• BEAUCHAMP TL AND CHILDRESS JF. Principles of Biomedical Ethics (5th edn) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001

• CAMPBELL A, CHARLESWORTH M, GILLETT G, JONES G. Medical Ethics (4th edn) South Melbourne, Vic.; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001

• FOSTER C. The Ethics of Medical Research on Humans Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001

• FULFORD KWM. Moral Theory and Medical Practice Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989

• FULFORD KWM, MURRAY TH, DICKENSON D (eds). Many Voices: introduction to health care ethics and human values: an introductory text with readings and case studies Malden, USA: Blackwell, 2002

• GILLON R. Philosophical Medical Ethics Chichester: John Wiley, 1986

• GLOVER J. Causing Death and Saving Lives Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1990

• JONSEN AR. The Abuse of Casuistry: a history of moral reasoning Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988

• PARKER M (ed.) Ethics and Community in the Health Care Professions London: Routledge, 1999

Practical reasoning and skills

• HOPE T, FULFORD KWM, YATES A. The Oxford Practice Skills Course. Ethics, law and communication skills in health care education Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996

• JONSEN AR, SEIGLER M, WINSLADE WJ. Clinical Ethics: a practical approach to ethical decisions in clinical medicine New York: McGraw-Hill, 1997

• THOMSON A. Critical Reasoning in Ethics London: Routledge, 1999

Values-based practice

• COLOMBO A, BENDELOW G, FULFORD KWM, WILLIAMS S. Evaluating the influence of implicit models of mental disorder on processes of shared decision-making within community based multidisciplinary teams Soc Sci Med 2003; 56: 1557–70

• FULFORD KWM, THORNTON T, GRAHAM G. Oxford Textbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006

• WOODBRIDGE K AND FULFORD KWM. Whose Values? A workbook for values-based practice in mental health care London: Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health, 2002

Ethics in general practice

• DOWRIK C AND FRITH L (eds). General Practice and Ethics: uncertainty and responsibility London: Routledge, 2005

• SLOWTHER A AND PARKER M. Ethics support and education in primary care. In: Bowman D and Spicer J (eds). Primary Care Ethics London. Radcliffe Publishing (forthcoming, 2007)

• SLOWTHER A, FORD S, SCHOFIELD T. Ethics of evidence based medicine in the primary care setting Journal of Medical Ethics 2004; 30: 151–5

• TOON P. What is Good General Practice? London: Royal College of General Practitioners, 1994

Medical law

• KENNEDY I AND GRUBB A. Medical Law: text with materials London: Butterworth, 2000

• MASON JK AND LAURIE GT. Mason & McCall Smith’s Law and Medical Ethics (7th edn) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006

Law databases

• The British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII) database: www.bailii.org . An excellent database of recent legal cases avail-able free online.

• Office of Public Sector Information: www.opsi.gov.uk/legislation/uk.htm . UK statutes from 1988.

• Scottish Legislation: www.opsi.gov.uk/legislation/scotland/about.htm. See the Social Science Information Gateway (above) for many more websites relevant to law.

Medical research

• UK Central Office for Research Ethics Committees (COREC): www.corec.org.uk . Gateway to guidelines on medical research.

• Declaration of Helsinki 2000 (World Medical Association): www.wma.net/e/policy/b3.htm .

National Orgnisations

• The General Medical Council: www.gmc-uk.org . Contains GMC guidelines covering many areas of medical practice and includes draftguidelines for comment and feedback.

• The British Medical Association: www.bma.org.uk . Some of the BMA’s reports and codes of practice (such as that about advancedirectives) are available online.

• UK government reports: www.dh.gov.uk/PublicationsAndStatistics/fs/en.  Law commission reports are available as well as some government-sponsored educational documents such as that on consent.

• UK Clinical Ethics Network: www.ethox.org.uk/ . Useful links to guidelines on ethical issues and discussions of key ethical issues inclinical practice.

• National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence: www.nice.org.uk . For information on clinical guidelines and directives regard-ing health technology interventions.

• National Institute for Mental Health in England: www.nimhe.csip.org.uk/our-work/-values/-values-based-practise.html?keywords=values%20based . For values framework in mental health.

• Royal College of General Practitioners: www.rcgp.org.uk/college_information/college_information/committees/medical_ethics_committee.aspx . The RCGP Medical Ethics Portal.

References

• GENERAL MEDICAL COUNCIL. Good Medical Practice London: GMC, 2006

• FULFORD KWM. Ten principles of values-based medicine. Ch. 14. In: Radden J (ed.). The Philosophy of Psychiatry: a companion New York: Oxford University Press, 2004, pp. 205–34

• GENERAL MEDICAL COUNCIL. Tomorrow’s Doctors London: GMC, 2001

• GENERAL PRACTITIONERS COMMITTEE OF THE BMA AND THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF GENERAL PRACTITIONERS. Good Medical Practice for General Practitioners London: Royal College of General Practitioners, 2002

• OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER SOCIAL EXCLUSION UNIT. Final Report on Social Exclusion and Mental Health London: Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, 2004

• DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. Delivering Race Equality in Mental Health Care: an action plan for reform inside and outside services London: Department of Health, 2005

• DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. Practice-Based Commissioning: promoting clinical engagement London: Department of Health, 2004

• DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. Commissioning a Patient-Led NHS London: Department of Health, 2005

• THE NHS CONFEDERATION. Factsheet on the Quality and Outcomes Framework London: The NHS Confederation, 2003