About us

Ethics in health care is about analyzing and resolving conflicts or tensions between competing values or rights.

If you face such tensions as a professional or during your hospital stay as a patient, the teams in the Clinical Ethics Unit or Clinical Ethics Committee are available to help. 

Clinical Ethics Unit Clinical Ethics Committee

Who can contact us?

• Patients at the CHUV, their surrogate decision makers (proxies), and their relatives
• Any health professional who encounters an ethical problem in the hospital
• Patient associations
• Cantonal health authorities
• The Faculty of Biology and Medecine of the UNIL.