Pandemic Ethics are not just about COVID patients (Part 2)

An urgent question facing many NHS leaders in hospitals is, how do we meet the needs of non COVID-19 patients.

One such area is non COVID-19 cancer patients awaiting surgery?
How should one ethically prioritise these patients when resources (people, theatre space, ward and critical care beds, community help) are extremely limited.

A MORAL Balance Analysis can be viewed here.
My thanks to members of Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust’s Ethics of Clinical Practice Committee who helped identify additional facts and outcomes of relevance.

Missing any facts or outcomes of relevance that you think are important? Would you weigh and balance differently? Come up with a different suggested checklist.

There are hundreds of these decisions needing to be made.
The MORAL Balance framework could be a tool that helps you.

Download a generic template and use. Even better send back to us and we will upload.

Dale