Professional values in healthcare are in a state of constant and increasingly rapid change. While all professions now emphasise teamwork and collegiality in practice, fewer are inclined to consider shared or differing values across professions.

This interdisciplinary volume explains how health care professions and their values have changed over the last forty years, charting where they have come from, where they are now, and how they might develop in the future. There is coverage of a wide range of different professions within healthcare, from GPs, mental health nurses, adult nurses and pharmacists, to NHS managers and chaplains. Chapters are followed by critical responses from senior healthcare practitioners.


This original and insightful book will be a valuable resource for academics, researchers, senior healthcare professionals and healthcare managers.

Contributions by: Paquita de Zulueta, Kieran Sweeney, Brian Hurwitz, Bronwen Davies, David Badcott, Paul Ballard, Andrew Edgar, Lynn Knight, Srikant Sarangi, Julia McKeown, Derek Sellman, Heather Skirton, Chris Swift, Chrissie Hockley, Alan Nathan, Moira Dumma