The CQC henceforth published its guidance material, Essential Standards of Quality & Care. The CQC later published the Health & Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2010, which contains definitions of the services and activities that people must be registered to provide, alongside details of standards that have to be observed. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is another body who provide strict rules that are to be followed correctly. According the the Government website (direct.gov.uk), the HSE is: “the national independent watchdog for work-related health, safety and illness. It acts in the public interest to reduce work-related death and serious injury across Great Britain's workplaces.” There are several further Acts and Regulations that all parties in the Health & Social Care industry are to adhere to, including: Health & Safety at Work Act 1974 This covers a range of issues relating to health, safety and welfare across different sectors and industries.
Understand the legislation and policies that support the human rights and inclusion of individuals with learning disabilities. Identify legislation and policies that are designed to promote the human rights, inclusion, equal life chances and citizenship of individuals with learning disabilities. I can identify the polices and legislation designed to promote inclusion, human rights of individuals with learning disabilities and of their citizenship and equal life chances i.e. National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990; Disability Discrimination Act 2005; Equality Act 2010; Disability Equality Duty 2006. Procedures and Polices of the organisational kind are; Department of Health 2001a (A new strategy for Learning Disability for the 21st Century i.e.
Changes in healthcare from a conflictionist point of view can be described as opposing forces for or against the changes. There are some who desire changes to the present healthcare system and there are those who do not wish to see any changes or cannot agree on exactly what about healthcare should be changed. There will always be conflict among those who own the means of goods and production and those who struggle to get what they need. I believe that this theory most applies to changes in health care because conflict usually happens when there is unequal distribution of scarce resources, in this case healthcare. One may not think that healthcare is a scarce resource, but when you look at the
11/15/2012 Name:______________________________| BTEC Level 3 EXTENDED DIPLOMA | Westminster Kingsway College | Unit 2 Equality, Diversity and Rights in Health and Social Care | Set Date: 15.11.12 Due Date: Final Submission Date (for 2nd submissions) Tutor: Jane Gallard Assignment 2 of 2 Learning outcomes On completion of this unit a learner should: 3 Understand how national initiatives promote anti-discriminatory practice 4 Know how anti-discriminatory practice is promoted in health and social care settings. In this assignment you will learn the benefits of living in a diverse society. You will learn how to use and recognise terminology in this area and you will understand the detrimental effects that discrimination has on those that are discriminated against. Criteria covered: P4,P5,M2,M3,D1,D2 Learner declarationI declare that all the work submitted for this assignment is my own work or, in the case of group work, the work of myself and the other members of the group in which I worked, and that no part of it has been copied from any source.I understand that if any part of the work submitted for this assignment is found to be plagiarised, none of the work submitted will be allowed to count towards the assessment of the assignment.Signed: Date: | Task Introduction You are to produce a booklet that explains how recent national initiatives promote anti-discriminatory practices. The work placement officer asks you to include a description of how anti-discriminatory practice can be promoted in health and social care so that the booklet can be given to students before they go on placement.
This is the most positive sight of govt. healthcare service in UK. But their active role and tight control effect negatively in market mechanism and medical resources. Most of the people abuse facilities given by the govt. and misuse these.
It is a possibility you will come across people that disagree and have different view from you or people you may not get along with. This has to be accepted in life as we are all individuals and can’t always get along with everyone. When working with colleagues, and helping others you have to be mature and professional, even if you don’t want to. Education has been a huge development over the past few years with diverse cultures being researched within the curriculum. This implies equality, diversity and rights (EDR) training in a health and social care environment.
The Caldicott Report set out general principles which should be used by health and social care organisations when reviewing use of service user information. Information: to share or not to share – Caldicott2 Review (2013) The Caldicott2 Review looked into the balance between protecting patient information and its sharing, to improve patient care General Medical Council – Confidentiality: Protecting and Providing Information (2009) The document outlines the parameters of a doctor’s duty to protect patient confidentiality. It highlights issues like: patients’ right to confidentiality; protecting information; sharing information with patients; the circumstances under which disclosure of information may be made (e.g. with the patient’s explicit or implied consent; those dictated by law; and disclosures in the public interest); disclosure after a patient’s death; and disclosure in relation to treatment sought by children and those who are mentally incompetent. NHS Code of Practice.
While some are covered by Medicaid, this plan offers only limited choices and benefits depend on funding which often competes with prisons and schools. Generally poor and lacking education, most people in this tier have serious trouble overcoming the information gap between patients and providers. They may be largely ineffective in changing legislation or the structure of health care. If the problem of access is to be solved, it will need to be driven from the top two tiers. Quality & Trust Most research indicates that HMO enrollees and indemnity insurance enrollees are about equally satisfied with the quality of care in their plans—even patients who were sick when they were surveyed (Dranove, 2000; Weiss & Lonnquist, 2000).
These costs can be contained with accessible care and direct payment of services to NPs. As a result of these restrictions, NPs are unable to deliver quality and efficient health care to Floridians, and will continue to increase costs to tax payers. These restrictions will continue to drive patients to emergency rooms to seek simple care and will hinder a majority of the population from accessing care. We must do all that we can in providing the best care to our fellow Floridians while continuing a cost conscious, and intelligent approach. Thank you for your attention to this
For example, negotiating a complex health care system is almost impossible for many. Despite their heavy burden of illness, they lack access primary or preventive health services. In addition, transportation to and from medical appointments is often impossible because of timing and expense. Health cards, prescriptions and integrated health services are not usually within their grasp, although health and social policy dictates that they are entitled to these benefits. As a consequence, often the only health care homeless people receive is through the emergency department, which is costly and ineffective.” (Turnbull, Muckle, & Masters,