Health management guide. Ethics and probity

Changing structures, roles and relationships have thrown many of the old certainties of health service management into question. But whereas clinicians have professional codes to guide them, managers have had to make difficult choices and decisions in the absence of a written and clearly understood ethical framework. More recently, codes of practice for NHS boards and for individuals have started to address this issue. This Health Management Guide aims to provide a practical introduction to the ethics of health service management.