The PHSA Ethics Service is committed to equity, diversity and inclusion. We provide the following services through an equity and trauma-informed lens:
Clinical ethics consults: We help people seeking care and their families, healthcare providers, workers and professionals, administrators and leaders work through ethical issues focused on care delivered to individuals and families across PHSA.
Organizational ethics consults: We guide ethical practices at the organizational level by, for example, supporting administrators and leaders in resource allocation and addressing bias in healthcare.
Public health ethics consults: We support public health-interest holders in developing ethical approaches and strategies to addressing challenges in public health.
Policy development and review: We partner with teams to develop and review policies and guidelines that shape clinical practice, public health services and organizational operations.
Ethics education: We build ethics capacity within PHSA through collaborative practices, ethical practice tools and both in-person and online education. We provide ongoing educational opportunities tailored to the needs of the organization and teams.
Address moral distress: We support individuals, teams and leaders in strategy-building to prevent, mitigate and address moral distress.
- Facilitate respectful and inclusive discussions to identify ethical issues and work through ethical decision-making processes
- Help people think through, identify and share the values that are most important to them with their care teams
- Support people to reach decisions that are right for them and their loved ones
- Ensure information shared is kept confidential
- Help engage with relevant communities, interested parties and partners
- Support open, transparent and inclusive decision-making processes
- Ensure the ethical resolution process is fair
For questions and concerns around the quality of care provided to patients and clients, please contact the
Patient Care Quality Office.
