ABSTRACT
Values-based practice is an approach that recognizes that the values of both service users
and ourselves are inescapable in health care. Our own personal values, our professional
values and the values of the people we care for are all inextricably involved in every
aspect of our clinical practice and decision-making. Health care professionals therefore
need to develop skills and attitudes which enable them to recognize, work with, and
respond to their own values and those of others.
