Healthcare Ethical Principles

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Healthcare ethics are moral principles that govern healthcare professionals’ behaviours such as doing the right or wrong things and doing the good or bad things (Oxford Dictionaries & Wong, 2014).

Complying with ethical principles can help to establish a mutual trust professional-patient relationship that allows a smooth treatment process. For example, if healthcare professionals obey confidentiality such as keeping patients’ medical histories with accordance to the guideline and discussing patients’ affairs only with the respective medical team (Code of Practice of The Radiographers Board Hong Kong, 1998), the incidents of losing patients database can be prevented and privacy of patients can be protected. This can increase the reliability of healthcare professionals. Patients will be assertive and corporative when they are accessing healthcare services.

Besides, patients can receive adequate and appropriate treatments if healthcare professionals adhere to the ethical principles. All healthcare professionals should maintain the highest standard of competence and update their professional knowledge continually (Supplementary Medical Professions Council, n.d.). For example, if a physiotherapist does not comply with this principle, he may not know that there is a new treatment called Bobath Concept (Au-Yeung, …show more content…

Supplementary Medical Professions Council (n.d.) stated that all healthcare professionals should respect and cooperate with related professions if necessary. Under a healthcare system, all professionals need to corporate for the benefit of the patients. For example, orthopedic doctors may need to refer some patients to physiotherapists and occupational therapists for treatment if the waiting list is too long. Cooperation among professions can be enhanced and patients can receive suitable treatment if every profession follows the ethics

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