COMMUNITY CASE STUDY article
Front. Health Serv.
Sec. Health Policy and Management
Volume 5 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/frhs.2025.1558269
The role of ethics consultants in healthcare: A pillar of integrity and transparency in the health services. An experience in Lleida
Provisionally accepted
Oriol Yuguero1*
Maria José Ruiz-Montilla2- 1Lleida Institute for Biomedical Research (IRBLleida), Lleida, Spain
- 2University Hospital Arnau de Vilanova, Lleida, Catalonia, Spain
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Healthcare ethics has evolved since the Hippocratic Oath was adopted, to become a complex multifaceted discipline known as bioethics. This article aims to explore the role played by healthcare ethics consultants in depth, analysing how their intervention is crucial to ensuring transparency, integrity, and trust in health institutions. These consultants have proved very helpful in high-pressure healthcare areas such as emergency services and intensive care medicine, where rapid responses are often essential. The growing complexity of healthcare, driven by technological advances and economic pressure, makes the role of ethics consultants more critical than ever.
Keywords: Bioethics, Consultant, healthcare, quality of care, Emergencies
Received: 09 Jan 2025; Accepted: 26 May 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Yuguero and Ruiz-Montilla. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Oriol Yuguero, Lleida Institute for Biomedical Research (IRBLleida), Lleida, Spain
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