RPS guidance on ethical, professional decision making in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Contents

1. Summary
2. Acknowledgement
3. Introduction & Background
4. Professional Decision-Making
5. Ethical Framework for Decision Making
6. Guidance relating to specific issues
• Maintaining patient safety
• Maintaining the safety of staff and volunteers
• Working outside normal areas of specialism and/or competence
• Allocating scarce supplies of medicines and devices
• Following of legislative requirements
• Record keeping
• Direct and indirect discrimination in decision making
• Moral Distress
• Managing patients remotely
• Procurement and distribution
• Leadership 
• Research/Experimental treatments 
• Repurposing of medicines
• Learning and improvement
• Watch: Practice examples 
7. Ethical decisions COVID-19 Short Life Working Group