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The article presents a case study of a 10 year old girl with a congenital heart defect. Her health has steadily deteriorated over the past two years and was admitted to the ward and transmitted to the Intensive Care Unit. The Virtual Ethics Committee offered their expert advice on the matter of whether the child is a suitable candidate for the heart transplant waiting list.

The article presents a case study about what to do with a pregnant mother when she changes her mind to hear the results of HIV tests which she consented to take early on. This was discussed during a meeting of the Virtual Ethics Committee. It follows a procedure that attendees to the meeting all agreed to take on face value as it is a difficult and limitations in practice also have an impact.

The article discusses the impact of fear's investigation in patients health care in Great Britain in December 2006. The author states that due to Shipman murdered victims under guise of medical care and provoked against the medical profession as a whole, they could be under suspicion. He inferred that the investigations are obviously very stressful for those being investigated.

The article presents the case of a son requesting to see the psychiatric notes of his deceased mother. According to the author, the son asked for his mother's information because he would like to find his true father and some half siblings. The mental health team involved in the case face the dilemma of giving the detailed and private information of their patient though her son has the right to access the notes because they believe that it will not settle the doubts of the son.

The article presents a case regarding donation of an organ from a dead person. According to the virtual ethics committee, the kidney should be transplanted to the son of the dead mother regardless of whether the UK Transplant will give the go signal. However, the committee should be ready for any professional or public consequences.

The article offers information on the third meeting of the virtual clinical ethics committee. During the meeting, a case study on confidentiality and obligations to dead patients is presented. The case of an HIV patient who suddenly died and left a wife and children is discussed. The moral consequences of failing to tell his family about his disease as well as the legal duty to tell is explored.

The article presents the virtual ethics committee's case study about an elderly lady's behavior in an inpatient unit which led the staff to consider restraining her. The authors comment on the ethical issues about the principle of physical restraint and discusses its legality and the ethical differences between physical and chemical restraint.

The article underlines the work of the virtual ethics committee. It is posed that ethical decisions in clinical practice happen whenever and wherever health care takes place. It is argued that it is not confined to the interactions of health care professionals and patients or even their families. Clinical ethics committees have tended to be organized in hospitals and their caseloads manifest the kind of environment in which they are positioned.