COVID-19: new guidance published for frontline staff

The Royal College of Physicians has published ethical guidance for frontline staff dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, supported by more than a dozen other health organisations. It provides guidance for the difficult ethical issues that front-line staff will face while caring for their patients during the pandemic and takes into consideration recent joint statements from the General Medical Council (GMC), the NHS and the UK’s four Chief Medical Officers. Members of the RCP’s Committee on Ethical Issues in Medicine, chaired by Dr Alexis Paton, developed the guidance and said that while so much has changed during the pandemic, staff still need to