"What is 'moral distress' in nursing?"

Please join us for an evening of debate about ethics in healthcare, where we will be asking "what is 'moral distress' in nursing?"

7-9pm with drinks and canapés to follow, the Wellcome Collection, Burroughs Room

Whether you are a patient, member of the public, healthcare professional or academic, we would like to invite you to attend this FREE event to discuss moral distress and related concepts such as compassion fatigue, burnout, professional well-being and ethics in healthcare.

You will hear from a panel of experts, have a chance to participate and debate, with drinks reception and canapés to follow:

Chaired by, Deborah Bowman, Professor of Bioethics, Clinical Ethics, and Medical Law at St George’s University and regular commentator on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Inside the Ethics Committee'.

With Guest Speakers:

Jill Maben OBE, Professor of Nursing Research, King's College London

Ann Gallagher, Professor of Ethics and Care, University of Surrey, and editor of international journal ‘Nursing Ethics’.

John Paley, MA, Visiting Fellow in the Centre for Health and Social Care Research at Sheffield Hallam University and prolific writer on philosophy and nursing and...

Lesley Baillie, Professor of Nursing, London South Bank University and Florence Nightingale Foundation Chair.