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  • Healthcare Ethics
  • Moral Philosophy
  • Recruitment Strategy

Background:

  • The UK National Health Service (NHS) employs values-based recruitment to align staff and trainees with its constitutional values.
  • There is a lack of clarity on whether existing moral philosophy literature informed the development of these NHS values.
  • Healthcare professionals may uncritically accept established values, assuming they are newly created rather than historically rooted.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the NHS Constitution values using virtue ethics literature.
  • To identify potential gaps and areas for improvement in the current NHS values framework.
  • To enhance the effectiveness of values-based recruitment strategies within the NHS.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of selected virtue ethics writings, including historical literature and practical healthcare profession analysis.
  • Comparative evaluation of virtue ethics concepts against the stated values within the NHS Constitution.
  • Identification of ambiguities in current NHS value definitions and representation of key ethical concepts.

Main Results:

  • Certain definitions within the NHS Constitution values are ambiguous.
  • Key virtue ethics concepts, specifically 'integrity' and 'practical wisdom', are not adequately represented.
  • The current framework may benefit from clearer definitions and the inclusion of these core ethical principles.

Conclusions:

  • The NHS Constitution values can be strengthened by refining definitions and incorporating 'integrity' and 'practical wisdom'.
  • Enhanced values provide a more robust foundation for values-based recruitment.
  • International healthcare policymakers developing similar frameworks should consider virtue ethics literature reflectively.