Our professional ethics Reference documents on professional ethics committees Each professional ethics committee draws up reference documents on professional ethics. The professional ethics committees (France & Spain) The professional ethics Committee (France) has contribute tobuild our thinking on ethical dilemmas drawn up a Charter on Well- Treatment and Ethics encountered by our teams in the provision of care, (updated in January 2023) and several other docu- in particular: ments for employees, including ‘My Ethics Notebook’, ‘Listening to choices’ and ‘Family and friends’ • Stimulate ethical reflection in eachhome and relationships’. It has also produced a ‘Well-treatment home care service. and Ethics Kit’. All employees can learn about the • Promote the Group’s values throughout professional ethics approach through an e-learning the organisation. course. • Elaborate reference documents to guide the The working documents of the professional ethics support provided to people. Committee (Spain) take the form of recommen- • Developing protocols for good support practices. dations for centres and are distributed to homes and publishedon the website www.domusvi.es. • Preventing conflict situations. The Committee also issues opinions on research • Fostering a relationship of trust between all those projects that may fall within its remit: favourable, involved in supporting people. favourable with reservations or unfavourable. • Being part of DomusVi’s CSR approach. The work of professional ethics committees in 2024 Since their creation, the committees in Spain and France have been able to adapt to the needs of Constitution and composition of committees Intervention of professional ethics committees operational teamsto respond to their concerns with the necessary responsiveness. The initiative began in Spain in 2005 with the When a situation is identified, the homes manager creation of the first professional ethics committee and his team complete a ‘case reporting form’ and In France, for example, a telephone line has been and continued in France in 2017 with the creation of send it to the Ethics Committee, which initiates set up to respond directly to teams, and in 2024, the French Committee. These committees are madea multidisciplinary review of the situation reported monthly exercise sheets were introduced to engage up of professionals representing our activities and and issues an advisory opinion to the teams. teams in ethical reflection. In addition, a monthly operations and belonging to different age groups. newsletter is sent to teams in homes and home care They report to the Country Managing CommitteeSince its creation, the professional ethics Committee agencies to report on the Committee’s work and and are chaired by Francesc Torralba, professor of (France) has issued 122 opinions on cases submitted involve them in this process of reflection on ethical philosophy at the University of Barcelona. by our professionals and has issued 5 opinions to issues. the French Management Committee during the first All members of our professional ethics committees wave of the Covid pandemic. In France, all of this work has resulted in the launch have been trained in ethics, including ethical of an introductory programme on ethics via the principles, end of life, deontological virtue ethics, The professional ethics Committee (Spain) has training platform. ethics of care and vulnerability, justice, the crisis of analysed 127 cases since 2005 and issued the meaning at the end of life and transhumanism. corresponding opinions,as well as guidelines for centres, particularly during the first wave of Covid. 56 57 44220022 ÉTTRIOLIPBEAR RYUTID LIEBD ATNRIOATPSPAURSSEGXNUELALTAÉIHCC OLS AITCE OXS UDAINCA OLS AXTEUIECJONSE RSUONO