Access to personal information should be on a short need-to-know basis B. Not to use or share personal information unless it is absolutely necessary. C. Everyone must understand and comply with the law. Reference: Health and social care level 3/ own work experience. 1.2 SUMMARISE THE MAIN POINTS OF LEGAL REQUIRMENTS AND CODES OF PRACTICE FOR HANDLING INFORMATION IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE.
Unit307 1.1+1.2 the legislation that relates to handing information is the access to personal files act 1987/ the data protection act 1998/ the freedom of information act 2000 / human rights / health and social care act 2008. The main points of these laws is so that people can see what information is being held by authorities about them. I.e. medical information/ police records/ or social services files. This information cannot be accessed by any other person all information held by local authorities and the National Health Service is personal information.
Psychological aspect of it plays an important role in determining the prognosis of an individual with disease regardless of the severity of their medical diagnosis (J. W. Drisko and M. D. Grady, 2012). According to the World Health Organization (WHO, 2007) “health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”. Thus, the biomedical model is not suitable to use in the medical field. Biological, psychological and sociological are interconnected to each other. For
1.Understand requirements for handling information in health and social care settings 1.1 Identify legislation and codes of practice that relate to handling information in health and social care. There is lots of different legislation that is based around health and social care. The Main one with regard to handling data is the 1998 data protection act this explains the law based around how and when certain information is to be used, stored and shared. The health and social care act 2008 required the CQC to create a code of practice regarding personal information, this explains how you should obtain, handle and use personal confidential information. 1.2 Summarise the main points of legal requirements and codes of practice for handling information in health and social care The main points are as follows: * data must be followed in a fair and lawful way.
To fulfill this requirement, HHS published what are commonly known as the HIPAA Privacy Rule and the HIPAA Security Rule. The Privacy Rule, or Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information, establishes national standards for the protection of certain health information. The Security Standards for the Protection of Electronic Protected Health Information (the Security Rule) establish a national set of security standards for protecting certain health information that is held or transferred in electronic form. The Security Rule operationalizes the protections contained in the Privacy Rule by addressing the technical and non-technical safeguards that organizations called “covered entities” must put in place to secure individuals’ “electronic protected health information” (e-PHI). In today’s era, everyone pays with credit cards or debit cards.
Held securely and remain confidential. It is the same for other records that are needed to protect the service users safety and wellbeing. * Freedom of Information Act 2000 – It provided pubic access to information held by pubil authorities. It does this in two ways: Public authorities are obliged to publish certain information about their activities; and members of the public are entitled to request information from public authorities. * The General Social Care Council (GSCC) ‘Codes of Practice’ – 1.2 Summarise the main points of legal requirements and codes of practice for handling information in health and social care.
DPA says that service user information must be confidential and can only be accessed with their consent. Service users must know what records are being kept and why the data is kept. Freedom of Information Act 2000: The Freedom of Information Act gives individuals the right to ask organisations all the information they have about them… There are some that might be withheld to protect various interest which if that is the case, the individual must be aware of it. Information about individuals will be handled under the Data Protection Act. General Social Care Council (GSCC) Codes of Practice: These set out the standards of practice that everyone who works in social care should meet.
* They have not taken reasonable care for their own or others safety. * You may need to take responsibilities for an individual’s health and safety if the person will not comply with a risk assessment procedure and you need to follow policies and procedures to deal with this. * We must follow care plan risk assessment and health and safety procedures at all times. 1.5 Explain why specific tasks should only be carried out with special training. Everyone who is working in health and social care should not carry out any of these tasks without special training.
1.2 Explain why it is important to have secure systems for recording and storing information in a health and social care setting The GSCC code of practice states care workers should respect confidential information and clearly explaining agency policies about confidentiality to service users and carers. It is important not to abuse the trust they have in you to maintain their personal information. The Data protection Act states “Appropriate technical and organisational measures shall be taken against unauthorised
Module 3 Discussion I think confidentiality, autonomy, and fidelity are applicable to this case because, as a health care power of attorney of the patient, Cheryl has the right to ask the health care providers to keep the patient’s diagnosis private and not let the patient know. Cheryl also has the right to make decisions based on her values and beliefs, information, and sound reasoning, which in other words is autonomy. Fidelity is applicable here as the health care providers are expected to keep the promise of not revealing that the patient has cancer and to tell him that he is going to be fine. I think the provision 3 of the ANA code of ethics is most applicable to this case because it is stated in the provision 3 that the nurse promotes,