Pushing the Envelope: Whose Duty of Care?

in their ethical principles and values guidelines, present a significant ethical dilemma during the current ’flu pandemic. In this editorial, I will reflect on this and on whether the DH and/or the individual’s organisational management have failed to deliver on the reciprocal promise to support staff as outlined in the ethical framework. If this is so, then this reduces workers to a reliance on their own definitions of duty of care, which is a flawed and overwhelmingly burdensome expectation. Definitions