The Gosport Scandal: Impact of Ethical Misconduct on Patients and Hospital Reputation

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Executive Summary
Ethics is a code of certain rules and regulations that are essential for any particular profession. It
is really essential for the professionals to make sure that they are able to strike a proper balance
between ethics and their actions. This report has mainly tried to analyze the impact of ethical
misconduct and how can the same be avoided. For an instance, there can be a situation where a
doctor might face some ethical dilemma. He might be in a situation where he has to take a proper
decision on whether to save his position or to stay true to the ethics. The doctors and the nurses
have to be very alert during this situation. They have to make sure that nine of their actions or
decisions are causing any harm to the patients. This report has mainly tried to analyze the impact
of ethical misconduct and how can the same be avoided.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................4
Analysis...........................................................................................................................................4
Customers or Patients-.................................................................................................................5
Managers-.....................................................................................................................................6
Board-...........................................................................................................................................7
The industry or the sector –..........................................................................................................7
Damage caused to the reputation of the organization......................................................................8
Approaches that must be taken by the company to rebuild the reputation......................................9
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................9
Recommendation...........................................................................................................................10
References......................................................................................................................................11
Appendices....................................................................................................................................14

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Introduction
Ethics can be considered as a set of given rules and regulations that a person has to abide
by while carrying on his medical practices. For an instance, a doctor might often face several
instances where he must stay true to his ethics. The doctors and the nurses have to be very alert
during this situation (I.E et al.2017). They have to make sure that nine of their actions or
decisions are causing any harm to the patients. One such incident happened in Gosport War
Memorial Hospital. Back in the year 1990, about 456 people died because of the wrong medicine
that was given to them. These deaths were mainly caused by a drug called opioids. Dr. Barton
was the one behind prescribing g this medicine. The more shocking thing is that the show could
continue this practice until 2009. This ongoing malpractice was well known to the other staffs
like the nurses and the other medical consultants.
There were no legal actions taken place against her. However, in the year 2009, she was
brought before the general medical council and a criminal charge was filed against her. Similar
cases have taken place in other places as well. Three patients died in one of the cottage hospitals
in Portsmouth due to the heavy doses of painkillers. However, no action was taken against this
and it was said that they have been given the right amount of medication for their conditions.
This is really a scandal on the part of the hospital authority (Grigorean et al.2014). This is
because the patients come to the hospital by keeping a faith that the doctors will help them to get
rid of their disease.