Examines the ethical considerations and wide range of values underpinning healthcare improvement work, enabling more rigorous reflection and discussion. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

1. Introduction; 2. Ethics and Healthcare Improvement; 3. Extending Explicit Thinking about Ethics in Healthcare Improvement; 4. The Practical Challenges of Bringing Ethical Analysis to Healthcare Improvement; 5. Conclusions; 6. Further Reading; Contributors; References.