Healthcare Ethics Committee

The Healthcare Ethics Committee is a multidisciplinary advisory body that integrates various moral ideologies from the healthcare environment. Its function is to assist citizens and health professionals in guiding their actions in cases where there are moral conflicts in clinical practice, within the framework of respect for human dignity and human rights.

After two years of working as the Promotional Committee for the Healthcare Ethics Committee of the Dexeus University Hospital, Centro Médico Teknon and Quirónsalud Hospital Barcelona, the Directorate-General for Health Planning and Regulation of the Department of Health of the Government of Catalonia accredited the three hospitals in 2015 to definitively establish the committee, approving its internal operating rules. Shortly afterwards, El Pilar Hospital was added, leaving the healthcare ethics committee as the reference point for the four hospitals in the Quirónsalud group in Barcelona.

Committee functions

• Advise on the resolution of difficult cases in healthcare practice that raise conflicts of moral or spiritual values for the different individual convictions of those involved.
• Develop guidelines, protocols or recommendations with guidelines for action that facilitate the handling of frequent situations that may give rise to ethical dilemmas when taking action.
• Collaborate in the training of professionals from the four centres in the field of bioethics.

As stated in its operating rules, professionals from the four hospitals, users or family members associated with them, and management bodies may access the HEC to request advice, guidance or counselling.

DOCUMENTATION OF INTEREST

Compendio documentos COVID CEA (1.7 MB ) (33 pages)

Documento Capacidad Mental (1.1 MB ) (18 pages)

Documento Confidencialidad (770.7 KB ) (16 pages)

Documento Rechazo Transfusión (356.6 KB ) (26 pages)

COMPOSITION

CHAIR:

Vicente Molina (Paediatrics. Dexeus)

VICE-CHAIR:

Montserrat Boada (Reproductive Medicine. Dexeus)

SECRETARY:

Clara González (Reproductive Medicine. Dexeus)

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:

Antoni Badrinas (Internal Medicine. Teknon)

Doris Barcia (Administration. Teknon)

Cristina Berenguer (Attorney, not affiliated with the institution)

Joan Casals (Oncology. Quirón Barcelona)

Noemí Corbacho (Internal Medicine. El Pilar)

Isidro Díaz de Bustamante (Legal. Quirónsalud Group)

Immaculada Fortea (Nursing. Teknon)

María Teresa Gómez (Gynaecology. Teknon)

Tricce Ibáñez (Nursing. Dexeus)

Gracia Lasheras (Psychiatry. Dexeus)

Mariana Mayans (Nursing. Teknon)

María Dolores Moral (Nursing. El Pilar)

Kenneth Planas (Intensive Care Medicine. Dexeus)

Paloma Pifarré. (Nuclear Medicine. Quirón Barcelona)

Mercè Riera (Anaesthesia. Dexeus)

Montse Roca (Psychology. Quirón Barcelona)

Carmen Sánchez (Patient Care. Dexeus)

Daniel Serrano (Pharmacy. El Pilar)

José Luis Vega (Regional Healthcare Management. Dexeus)

Contact data

You can contact the Healthcare Ethics Committee by e-mail at:

ceabarcelona@quironsalud.es

You can also receive assistance by telephone by calling the following numbers for each centre:

• Dexeus University Hospital 636 041 226
• Centro Médico Teknon 660 586 212
• Quirón Hospital Barcelona 93 552 00 86
• El Pilar Hospital 616 626 704