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Chapter 37 - The Moral Architecture of Healthcare Systems and Other Organisations

from Section 5 - Sustaining and Caring for Staff During Emergencies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 January 2024

By
Richard Williams  and
Verity Kemp
Edited by
Richard Williams ,
Verity Kemp ,
Keith Porter ,
Tim Healing  and
John Drury
Richard Williams
Affiliation:
University of South Wales
Verity Kemp
Affiliation:
Independent Health Emergency Planning Consultant
Keith Porter
Affiliation:
University of Birmingham
Tim Healing
Affiliation:
Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London
John Drury
Affiliation:
University of Sussex
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Summary

This chapter discusses the moral architecture of healthcare systems and organisations and also the organisations that work alongside healthcarers. This concept was created by Richard Williams for his Inaugural Professorial Lecture given in 2000. The concept describes a reciprocal relationship between how healthcare and rescue services staff are cared for by their employers and how they in turn care for their patients, clients, or the public. It reviews what can help staff to give of their best through support from their employing organisations, their colleagues, and their families and friends. It also offers descriptions of work undertaken to assess what helps and what does not help staff both in a broader context and during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Keywords

emotional labourmental healthcaremoral architecturepsychological safetypsychosocial carewellbeing
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Major Incidents, Pandemics and Mental Health
The Psychosocial Aspects of Health Emergencies, Incidents, Disasters and Disease Outbreaks
 , pp. 273 - 278
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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