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Blog
COVID, transparency and trust
16 Apr 2020 by Hugh Whittall
There is urgency to the situation that we all face. But urgency does not absolve those responsible for decision-making of the moral duty to involve those who are affected; to engage with the communities that they represent and seek to protect; and to be transparent about the basis on which decisions are being considered and are being made.
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Blog
Trustworthiness and 'doing ethics'
20 Apr 2020 by Dave Archard
It’s amazing how much (and how many people) we trust in and how reliant we are on trust. Imagine a world in which you never trusted your doctor to try to do her best for you. In an emergency such as the present one when things are so uncertain trust matters even more. But you cannot just command trust (‘Trust me I am an expert/Minister/whatever’) and when trust has been built up over time it is very easy for it to be destroyed in an instant.
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Blog
Is the Government using its own ethical framework?
24 Apr 2020 by Elaine Gadd
Debate about how to exit from lockdown is increasing. What evidence is there that the ethical dimension of that process has been considered? So far there is little or no such evidence.
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News
Statement: COVID-19 and the basics of democratic governance
25 Apr 2020
The UK Government’s communication with the public has been admirably clear and simple: stay home. But it has been one-dimensional and one directional, whilst the challenges presented by COVID-19 are multiple, and they are far from simple.
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Blog
Twenty questions about the NHSX contact tracing app
28 Apr 2020 by Anne Kerr
In their recent statement on digital contact tracing, NHSX, the NHS Unit leading digital transformation of the NHS, acknowledge that the public will need to trust this new technology for it to be effective in tackling COVID-19, and that NHSX will seek to earn that trust by working with ‘transparent standards of privacy, security and ethics’.
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Press Release
Nuffield Council and Involve call for greater transparency and public involvement in UK response to COVID-19 pandemic
28 Apr 2020
The Nuffield Council on Bioethics and Involve have jointly written to the Prime Minister today setting out suggestions for greater transparency and public involvement as the UK moves towards phase two of the COVID-19 pandemic.