CT308 Understand Health and Safety in Social Care settings Understand the different responsibilities relating to health and safety in social care settings Legislation that relates to health and safety in social care settings are generally covered by the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974. This act is the ‘umbrella’ that has been updated and supplemented by all the regulations and guidelines which extend it, support it or explain it. The regulations most likely to affect my workplace are: Manual Handling Regulations 1992(amended 2002) - sets out requirements for manual handling and moving and handling of people. Control of Substances Hazardous to Health regulations 2002 (COSHH) - requires employers to control substances that could cause harm. Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995 (amended 2008) RIDDOR - sets out what needs to be reported.
Assignment 201 Understand Employment Responsibilities and Rights in Health, Social Care or Children’s and Young Peoples Settings Task A You Need to Update Your Staff Handbook to Reflect Current Employment Law Identify Three Different Sources of Information You Could Use to Enable You to do This. You could use the following to update your staff handbook either online or by telephone. Direct.Gov Health & Safety ACAS List Three Aspects of Employment Covered By Law There are many aspects of employment covered by law Minimum Wage, Health and Safety, Redundancy and Dismissal. List Three Main Features of Current Employment Legislation Three main features of current Employment Legislation are Employment Rights, Equalities and Discrimination Law and Health and Safety Legislation. Briefly
Wendy Hepworth NVQ level 3 Health and Social care Principles of communication in adult social care settings PWCS 31- Q3 - 3.4- Strategies that can help with a misunderstanding might include a written statement if it involves something official that would require the service user to fully understand an agreement or proceedure that they may require. Speaking clearly to a service user and using simple words if they cant understand jargon. If language is an issue get someone to speak to them and explain in thier own language to avoid more confusion. Q3- 3.5- I would firstly speak to my manager to find out if our home had a person on staff who the service user felt comfortable speaking to and look at family members for advise about who they feel comfortable talking to. Social services can provided counciling through a doctors referal so I coudl speak to the services users doctor for advise about what steps to take.
The Care Quality Commission regulates, inspects and reviews all adult social care services in the public, private and voluntary sectors in England. The Essential Standards for Quality and Safety – From 1 October 2010, every health and adult social care service in England is legally responsible for making sure it meets new essential standards of quality and safety. Providers must show that they are meeting essential standards as part of the new registration system which focusses on people rather than policies, on outcomes rather than systems. The essential standards relate to important aspects of care such as involvement and information for people, personalised care and treatment (bespoke to the individual), safety and safeguarding. The CQC continuously monitor compliance with essential standards as part of a more dynamic, responsive, robust system of regulation accompanied by new enforcement
www.nursingtimes.net/nursingpractice-critical-report-of-castlebrook-abuse-failings www.bbc.co.uk.news/uk-winterbourneview-failed-to-protect www.cqc.org.uk/merseyside-care-home-failed-to-protect 3.4 Identify sources of information and advice about own role in safeguarding and protecting individuals from abuse. Advice can be found in the employers policies and procedures, from the CSCIW. 4.1 Explain how the likelihood of abuse may be reduced by: a By working with person centred values you can gain trust, people will feel they have someone to talk to, therefore they may open up in a bad situation. b. By encouraging active participation you can promote self -esteem, they can get to know their rights.
The Police Act 1997 * Criminal Record Bureau (CRB) checks, under this act, are the norm in health and care organisations The CRB will work closely with ISA to ensure that a more detailed check is carried out. The Sexual Offences Act 1976 * Created the Sex Offenders Register for identification and tracking purposes This enables sex offenders to be monitored and vulnerable people to be protected Care Standards Act 2000 * Set National Minimum Standards’ accommodation, services and good workplace practice in the care and protection of vulnerable people Established the Protection of Vulnerable Adults (POVA) Scheme that checked suitability of care workers. It identified professionals who had harmed individuals using service. It has been replaced by the ISA’s barred list. Care
HLT 308V Week 4 DQ 2 The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS), and The Joint Commission (TJC) have identified the necessity for health care organizations to have a risk management program to address infection control. Detail three measures that your health care organization (or any health care organization) needs to address in the delivery of safe health care services. (Example: Placing hand washing devices at all of the public entrances of the health care facility). Support your response with two peer-reviewed references. HLT 308V Week 5 DQ 1 Health care organizations are facing many challenges from various regulatory and government agencies.
In March 2000 the government issued a guidance document “no secrets” which gave social services departments a co-ordinating role in developing locale policies and procedures for protecting venerable adult from abuse. This was required of all agencies, i.e. police, probation services, social services and health services, to work collaboratively to protect vulnerable adults. Social services departments were required to develop and implement these codes of practise by October 2001. The “no secrets” guidance document was update in 2015 and added in was compassionate care in the NHS, health and social care integration and dementia care.
In a recent article in the BMJ, Ham C (2012) has identified some of the key legislative changes as follows: Primary care trusts and strategic health authorities will be abolished as part of a radical structural reorganisation, with new health and wellbeing boards being established to improve integration between NHS and local authority services Clinical commissioning groups will take over commissioning from primary care trusts and will work with the new NHS Commissioning Board in doing so A new regulator, Monitor, will be established to regulate providers of NHS services in the interests of patients and prevent anticompetitive behaviour The voice of patients will be strengthened through the setting up of a new national body, HealthWatch, and local HealthWatch organisations A new body, Public Health England, will lead on public health at the national level, and local authorities will do so at a local level What is the future of primary care? Primary
In which healthcare is more discussable due to its importance which varies from infant stage to the end of every human cycle of life. In this study I am intending to go through a critical and comparative study in the quality of the healthcare issues of UK society with a loom perspective of care home that provide senior health care to UK citizens. The main focus of this study is to realise the different aspects of the quality maintaining methods in UK health care environment and that would be analysed on the basis of a care home occupying mentally and physically challenged inmates. The quality standard that the authority needs to maintain in UK environment as a whole and in care home premises specially also needs to investigate accordingly. According to the American Heritage Medical Dictionary, 2007, the healthcare can be