When pandemic and everyday ethics collide: supporting ethical decision-making in maternity care and paediatrics during the Covid-19 pandemic
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Liverpool
Department Name: Public Health Policy & Systems
Abstract
The response to Covid 19 (C19) will have far reaching consequences for the NHS. This project focuses on how this response has created significant ethical issues for providers of non-C19 services when deciding how to prioritise and reconfigure services.
Our central aim is to evaluate and support ethical decision-making in two non-C19 areas: maternity and paediatrics.
We have chosen these areas because they have been significantly affected by the C19 response, with professional and patient organisations highlighting the problematic effects on both areas (First 1001 Days, Royal College of Midwives, Make Births Better).
Objectives
1. Conduct a rapid review of current local policies and policy-making processes for non-C19 maternity and paediatric services.
2. Examine how the policies are applied in clinical practice and pilot test approaches to ethics support.
3. Make recommendations for ethics support at local policy-making and practitioner levels; and develop tools to support good decision-making practice.
This inter-disciplinary project is an empirically informed ethical analysis of current policies, processes and practice in non-C19 maternity and paediatrics.
Design: empirical ethics, employing Frith's symbiotic empirical ethics approach, where philosophical theory is used to explore the data, draw normative conclusions, and make policy and practice recommendations.
Methods: rapid review of local policies and decision-making processes; analysis (against the national ethics framework for pandemics) of the values being engaged; interviews with key stakeholders involved in policy formation, and healthcare practitioners to understand how the policies are being applied in clinical practice and what support they might need in their ethical decision-making.
Our central aim is to evaluate and support ethical decision-making in two non-C19 areas: maternity and paediatrics.
We have chosen these areas because they have been significantly affected by the C19 response, with professional and patient organisations highlighting the problematic effects on both areas (First 1001 Days, Royal College of Midwives, Make Births Better).
Objectives
1. Conduct a rapid review of current local policies and policy-making processes for non-C19 maternity and paediatric services.
2. Examine how the policies are applied in clinical practice and pilot test approaches to ethics support.
3. Make recommendations for ethics support at local policy-making and practitioner levels; and develop tools to support good decision-making practice.
This inter-disciplinary project is an empirically informed ethical analysis of current policies, processes and practice in non-C19 maternity and paediatrics.
Design: empirical ethics, employing Frith's symbiotic empirical ethics approach, where philosophical theory is used to explore the data, draw normative conclusions, and make policy and practice recommendations.
Methods: rapid review of local policies and decision-making processes; analysis (against the national ethics framework for pandemics) of the values being engaged; interviews with key stakeholders involved in policy formation, and healthcare practitioners to understand how the policies are being applied in clinical practice and what support they might need in their ethical decision-making.
Organisations
- University of Liverpool (Lead Research Organisation)
- University of Central Lancashire (Collaboration)
- Royal College of Physicians of London (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF EXETER (Collaboration)
- Liverpool Health Partners (Project Partner)
- Birmingham Women’s & Children’s NHS FT (Project Partner)
- UK Clinical Ethics Network (Project Partner)
- Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust (Project Partner)
- Liverpool Women's Hospital (Project Partner)
Publications
Baines P
(2020)
COVID-19 and beyond: the ethical challenges of resetting health services during and after public health emergencies.
in Journal of medical ethics
Blumenthal-Barby J
(2020)
Pandemic medical ethics.
in Journal of medical ethics
Frith L
(2021)
Neither 'Crisis Light' nor 'Business as Usual': Considering the Distinctive Ethical Issues Raised by the Contingency and Reset Phases of a Pandemic.
in The American journal of bioethics : AJOB
Frith L
(2022)
The concise argument - choice, choices and the choice agenda.
in Journal of medical ethics
Frith L
(2020)
Lockdown, public good and equality during COVID-19.
in Journal of medical ethics
Frith L
(2020)
The concise argument.
in Journal of medical ethics
Redhead CAB
(2023)
RELATIONSHIPS, RIGHTS, AND RESPONSIBILITIES: (RE)VIEWING THE NHS CONSTITUTION FOR THE POST-PANDEMIC 'NEW NORMAL'.
in Medical law review
Van Den Berg L
(2021)
'Never waste a crisis': a commentary on the COVID-19 pandemic as a driver for innovation in maternity care
in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
| Description | • Healthcare professionals have lacked structured ethical support in managing the public health/clinical ethics tensions characterising the reset phase • Infection prevention measures prevent healthcare professionals from offering treatment that feels caring • The impact on healthcare professionals of being unable to offer care, as well as treatment opens the door to moral harm Our research took place within the context of the pandemic, where face-to-face interviews were not possible. As a result, we explored the use of other resources to inform the research. In the context of carrying out a rapid review of NHS Trusts' policies and procedures, for example, we decided to use the Publication Schemes of NHS Trusts to explore Trusts' organisational decision-making. We were able to use papers collated to support Trust Board meetings to identify decision-making priorities. These also helped us design the topic guides for our interviews with senior management. As a result of social distancing requirements, all our qualitative interviews were carried out remotely, using Zoom™ or Teams™ video-conferencing facilities. Conscious that participants might want to bring difficult experiences to the discussion, our research fellow thought carefully about facilitating an open, safe space for discussion despite the lack of face-to-face engagement. In particular, she found that it is important to allow the everyday challenges of home-working (such as children and pets) to flow through the interview without disrupting it. The findings from our research have underpinned the development of successful collaborative groups, which, in turn, have amplified the potential for dissemination of similar findings across the collaboration. All elements of the collaboration have been successfully carried out online. The collaborations have not only enabled effective dissemination of research findings, but have also facilitated the discussion of new research questions that have been suggested by common findings. A key new research area for us is the incidence of moral distress and injury in healthcare. The further research we are planning in this area will build on the new knowledge our research has uncovered about the nature and cause of moral harm in the healthcare context, and the important relationship between moral harm and the changed working practices mandated by the pandemic. Where healthcare professionals have been unable to care for their patients in the way they want to, being unable to touch them, for example, or to offer a comforting hug to a sick child, they have described to us a sense that their personal identity that is bound up with their identity as a healthcare professional has been compromised. |
| Exploitation Route | • New knowledge generated; the nature and cause of moral harm in the healthcare context. The important relationship between moral harm and when healthcare professionals are unable to look after their patients in a way that reflects 'who they are as a midwife / nurse' - a sense that their personal identity was compromised. • New or improved research methods developed : online interviewing, thinking about creating an open space for discussion despite the lack of face-to-face engagement; allowing the everyday challenges of working from home to flow through the interview without disrupting (eg children and pets). New research resources identified: publication schemes a s source of information about public authorities. Insight into organisational priorities and decision-making priorities.. New research questions opened up : moral harm in the healthcare context. Negative results or research paths closed off: asynchronous focus groups using online platforms - too complex to set up and use. New research networks, collaborations or partnerships PIVOT-AL and P&B. |
| Sectors | Healthcare |
| URL | https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/law/research/research-projects/reset-ethics/ |
| Description | Policy engagement and ongoing collaborative work. We are participating in two collaborative research groups presenting to policy makers and Government ministers across NHS services. The sharing of our findings has enabled the identification of common theses - which have informed specific and directed policy recommendations. In particular: • The COVID-19 maternity services organisation and delivery research (PIVOT-AL) collaborative brings together research into the impact of Covid-19 on maternity and children's services across the UK, and internationally. In December 2021, our research fellow presented our findings, as part of the PIVOT-AL collaboration to a national cohort of NHS leaders in maternity services. The meeting was convened specifically to allow the findings to inform policy discussions. Feedback from the presentation was very positive. • The PIVOT-AL collaborative will host an in-person policy conference in London on 4th April. It is anticipated that senior policy decision-makers from the NHS, Government and regional authorities will be in attendance. • The Pandemic & Beyond collaborative (P&B) (an AHRC-funded collaborative) brings together 70+ teams of researchers across the UK who are exploring the wide-ranging impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic and looking for solutions. We are presenting our findings and policy recommendations as part of a policy webinar on 8th March, 2022. • The P&B collaborative is bringing together an edited book series about Arts and Humanities research on Covid-19.. We are contributing to the collection, and co-editing the ethics, governance and law volume. • The House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts has now held 20 evidence sessions on various aspects of the government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Evidence from our Reset Ethics research was included in the list of written evidence considered in the preparation of the Committee's report, published on 25th July 2020. The report set out the Committee's views on what government can learn from its response to the pandemic and what it should do to ensure that those lessons are applied. This report is the first in a body of evidence the Committee is developing which will inform the future independent public inquiry into the government's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. • In July, 2020 the postdoctoral research fellow hosted a teaching session for paediatric specialists and presented our findings to a meeting of the clinical ethics committee of a large regional NHS foundation Trust. Some very interesting discussions resulted, and feedback from participants indicated that the session was relevant to participants' practice, would be recommended to colleagues and would inform thinking about how to revise practice. • The Royal College of Physicians is currently drafting ethical guidance underpinned by our research findings. LF and CR are part of the guidance development group, responsible for writing the guidance. The Guidance, when finalised, will be supported by around 16 other medical Colleges and healthcare professional groups. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2021 |
| Sector | Healthcare |
| Impact Types | Societal,Policy & public services |
| Guideline Title | The NHS 'Road to Recovery': Ethical guidance for endemic COVID-19 |
| Description | The NHS 'Road to Recovery': Ethical guidance for endemic COVID-19 published by the Royal College of Physicians |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in clinical guidelines |
| URL | https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/projects/outputs/nhs-road-recovery-ethical-guidance-endemic-covid-19 |
| Description | Pandemic recovery and future planning for research, policy, and practice in maternal and child health: A meeting for collaboration and consensus |
| Amount | £1,500 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Society for Reproductive and Infant Psychology (SRIP) |
| Sector | Learned Society |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2022 |
| End | 09/2022 |
| Description | Pivotal research network |
| Amount | £1,949 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Manchester |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2023 |
| End | 06/2023 |
| Description | Reset ethics: When pandemic and everyday ethics collide |
| Amount | £7,289 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Manchester |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2022 |
| End | 07/2022 |
| Description | PIVOTAL: Parent-Infant CoVid OrganisaTional Academic Learning collaborative |
| Organisation | University of Central Lancashire |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This UCLan-led research collaborative, brings together research into the impact of Covid-19 on maternity and children's services across the UK, and internationally. Its core aim is to investigate the effects of the pandemic on maternal and child healthcare and outcomes. The PIVOT-AL Collaborative has grown to comprise more than 50 members from more than 20 academic, clinical, and/or policy institutions, and includes academics, researchers, healthcare professionals and policy makers. LF's Reset Ethics project was (and remains) the only research specifically exploring ethical decision-making in the context of COVID-19 maternity and paediatric services. LF was one of the initial members and CR was invited to join as a researcher on LF's AHRC-funded NHS Reset Ethics research. We have been closely involved in PIVOT-AL activities, CR was invited to present PIVOT-AL findings to senior policy makers in December 2021 (Prof. Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent OBE, Chief Midwifery Officer for NHS England & Improvement, Prof. Jane Sandall CBE, NHS England & Improvement; King's College London) and September 2022 (at The Royal Society of Medicine, chaired by Nina Khazaezadeh (RSM and NHS England & Improvement). A policy brief summarising the presentations at these events is forthcoming. All the Universities (and other organisations) represented in the PIVOTAL collaboration are actively engaged. There are regular meetings, an active pooling of research outputs and co-construction of ideas for dissemination and impact. |
| Collaborator Contribution | In autumn 2022, CR successfully applied for funding from the University of Manchester to support the development of a collaborative research grant application to be made by members of the PIVOT-AL collaborative. The PIVOT-AL Collaborative findings indicate the areas where further research is urgently needed, and CR and LF are part of a PIVOT-AL working group to develop a funding application to explore the following broad issues: i. the 'system resilience' of health services - the impacts on workers, patients and professional practices of continually running at full capacity; ii. what underpins the workforce flows of health services workers - What role is played by fear, safety and risk, policy dissonance with practice, implementation failures, and discriminatory practices in undermining workforce stability and longevity? iii. What configurations of services/organisational practices align with/produce worker wellbeing, job satisfaction and intention to stay in post? CR organised a stakeholder workshop, which was hosted at UCL on 24th February, 2023. The workshop brought together a group of academics (with expertise in midwifery, early-years education and social pedagogy, law and bioethics), practitioners from maternity services, child health, and education, representatives of charities working to support healthcare professionals' wellbeing and mental health, and early career researchers. The discussion identified the key workforce issues from the perspectives of the professionals round the table, a research approach and possible research question, and a target funder for the bid. The PIs for the bid were identified, and next steps outlined with a view to submitting a collaborative bid in the autumn of 2023. |
| Impact | Policy briefings presented in an online meeting on 6th December 2021 . Policy briefs from each participating project were made available to policy makers and a joint presentation summarised findings from across all collaborating research teams. Policy briefings presented in a F2F meeting in September 2022 at the RSM. A joint policy briefing is in press. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Pandemic & Beyond |
| Organisation | University of Exeter |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Pandemic & Beyond collaborative (P&B) - this AHRC-funded collaborative brings together 70+ teams of researchers across the UK who are exploring the wide-ranging impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic and looking for solutions. We are working with P&B on two projects. P&B's aim is to ensure that the right decision-makers hear the research recommendations at the right time, and we are presenting as part of a policy webinar on 8th March, 2022. The other project is an edited book series being led by the P&B team. The books describe the Arts and Humanities research on Covid-19 which is being carried out by the research teams taking part in the P&B collaboration. The books will be published by Manchester University Press in 2023, targeting an educated general readership. We are contributing a chapter to, and co-editing the ethics, governance and law volume. We are also making use of the opportunities to participate in networking and training events, to discuss policy recommendations and press releases with colleagues at the University of Exeter (as host of the P&B collaboration) and to benefit from other relevant opportunities as and when they become available. |
| Collaborator Contribution | All collaborating research teams are being supported to prepare policy briefs, which are published on the P&B website, and to participate in a series of policy webinars, targeted at policy-makers across the range of interests represented by the collaboration. We are working with researchers from two other partners to prepare a set of joint recommendations from findings that are common to our three projects, and have prepared a joint policy brief which will also be presented at the webinar on 8th March. |
| Impact | See policy briefs here: https://pandemicandbeyond.exeter.ac.uk/projects/ethics-law-and-governance/when-pandemic-and-everyday-ethics-collide-supporting-ethical-decision-making-in-maternity-care-and-paediatrics-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/ Webinar for policy-makers will take place on 8th March, 2022 |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Rebuilding the NHS RCP |
| Organisation | Royal College of Physicians of London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Learned Society |
| PI Contribution | July 2022 - Royal College of Physicians. The NHS 'Road to Recovery': Ethical guidance for endemic COVID-19 Co-lead and author (guidance suggested by LF and based on the Reset Project findings). Reported in the Independent newspaper |
| Collaborator Contribution | We worked on the guidelines together and they produced, published and hosted them on their website. |
| Impact | . The NHS 'Road to Recovery': Ethical guidance for endemic COVID-19 |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | A webinar hosted by Pandemic & Beyond: Ethics, law and decision-making during COVID-19 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The Pandemic and Beyond brings together 77 teams of leading researchers from across the UK exploring the wide-ranging impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic and their implications for future policy. The purpose of the webinar was to share the expertise and insights of the arts and humanities researchers in the Pandemic and Beyond portfolio, including Reset Ethics, to ensure that policy makers have the information they need to make targeted and well-informed decisions. The webinar was accompanied by a policy brief for each participating study, together with collaboratively produced policy briefings from studies whose findings were complementary. The Pandemic and Beyond policy hub contains policy briefings, research reports and additional material. The Pandemic and Beyond webinar series was presented in partnership with Culture Commons - an advocacy and policy development organisation working with the creative, cultural and associated research sectors to amplify their voices to have an impact on policy at a local, national and international level. By the morning of the webinar, 92 people had signed up. These included a significant number of people from NHS Digital, the Head of Policy, Standards and Ethics at the General Medical Council, the Bishop of Oxford, the Deputy Director of the Cabinet Office and the Director of the Covid-19 Task Force. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://pandemicandbeyond.exeter.ac.uk/policy/ |
| Description | Blog for Journal of Medical Ethics |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Blog post looking beyond the initial Covid tsunami and reviewing the ethical challenges in balancing public health and the ongoing health needs of individuals and their families as NHS services are reset |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2020/10/30/beyond-the-initial-covid-tsunami-reviewing-the-ethic... |
| Description | Blog for Socio-Legal studies association |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Blog post considering ethical decision-making in the 'reset' phase of the pandemic - specifically considering how to support ethical decision-making in non-Covid Health Services |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://slsablog.co.uk/blog/blog-posts/reset-ethics-supporting-ethical-decision-making-in-non-covid-h... |
| Description | Defence Medical Services Ethics Symposium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Defence Medicine Symposium is a national group of diverse healthcare professionals and lay people that serve UK clinical ethics committees. It was a clinical ethics training course and Prof Draper presented the findings of the Reset project, to inform the work of clinical ethics committees. There were 25 participants. 23rd June 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | How to navigate public health legally and ethically in times of Covid? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Talk and panel session at the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Postgraduate Education Course Overcoming future pandemics: Tools to control viral threats. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.escmid.org/fileadmin/src/media/PDFs/1Dates_Events/event_flyers/FuturePandemicsCourse21.p... |
| Description | Post-pandemic recovery of maternal and child health service |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Lucy Frith (PI) and Caroline Redhead (RF) were invited to deliver a presentation at The Royal Society of Medicine on behalf of the Parent-Infant Covid Organisational Academic Learning [PIVOT-AL] Collaborative. The PIVOT-AL Collaborative was formed during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, allowing researchers to share learning and develop collaborative research regarding maternity and children's health services. At the event, Lucy Frith presented the key findings of the Reset Ethics research and Caroline Redhead presented the synthesised findings of the Reset Ethics and other collaborating research projects, with a particular focus on recommendations for the re-organisation, re-building, and recovery of more resilient healthcare systems in a post-pandemic world. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.rsm.ac.uk/events/maternity-and-newborn/2021-22/mbq05/ |
| Description | Presentation of a paper |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof. Heather Draper gave a paper to a clinical ethics training conference at University Hospital Coventry. The paper was entitled, 'duty to work during the covid 19 pandemic' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Presentation to Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust ethics committee |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to ethics committee at NHS Trust targeted as potential host site for the study |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Presentation to NHS policy makers |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The presentation was by representatives of the PIVOT-AL (Parent-Infant CoVid OrganisaTional Academic Learning) collaborative, representing 18 academic institutions, together with third sector and international research engagement. The subject of the presentation was early insights from new research on maternity services to inform service COVID-19 recovery. The presentations gave evidence-based recommendations as to which changes in approach and working practices to accommodate Covid-19 should be stopped, which should be continued and also suggested the re-instatement of some services that had been stopped during the pandemic. Present on the call (the meeting was held via online conferencing software) were representatives of NHSE, the Chief Medical Officer, the Chief Midwifery Officer in England and around 35 other senior NHS policy and decision-makers. The Reset Ethics research fellow was one of the presenters, and our findings were the only ethics-based findings to be presented. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Presentation to an invited audience of senior NHS maternity and child health policy makers, including the Chief Midwifery Officer |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Our Research Fellow, Caroline Redhead, was pleased to present the findings of our research to the Chief Midwifery Officer and other senior NHS policy and decision-makers, at a research briefing on 6th December. Presenting with two other representatives of a collaboration of researchers, we shared early insights from our research to inform service COVID-19 recovery. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Presentation to ethics advisory group of Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to ethics advisory group intended to support recruitment of Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust as a host site for the study |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Presentation to international bioethics conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to a paper session "Looking Forward/Looking Back: Law, Ethics, and Policy in the Age of COVID-19" taking place on 3-4th December, 2020 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://aabhl.org |
| Description | Prof. Heather Draper gave the Hoffenberg Lecture to the British Transplant Society's Winter Ethics Symposium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof. Heather Draper gave the Hoffenberg Lecture to the British Transplant Society's Winter Ethics Symposium (which will also be available to the main British Transplant Society meeting). Heather's lecture was entitled, 'Transplant Ethics and the pandemic legacy'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://bts.org.uk/events-meetings/upcoming-bts-events/ |
| Description | Reset Ethics research was referenced in report of The House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts, published on 25th July, 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | To July 2021, The House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts held 20 evidence sessions on various aspects of the government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Reset Ethics team was pleased to see our research listed in the written evidence to the Committee's report published on 25th July, setting out the Committee's views on what government can learn from its response to the pandemic and what it should do to ensure that those lessons are applied. This report was the first in a body of evidence the Committee developed to inform the independent public inquiry into the government's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. The public inquiry began its work in spring 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |