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Aspects of Health and Social Care Practices : Report

   

Added on  2020-01-15

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Empowering Users

TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4TASK 1 HOW THE DESIGN AND REVIEW OF SERVICES PROMOTES ANDMAXIMIZES THE RIGHTS OF USERS OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE SERVICES .41.1 Current legislations that influences the rights of users of health and social care .................41.2 Factors that promote and maximizes the rights of users........................................................51.3 Communication between care workers and service users contribute to promoting andmaximizing the rights of service users ........................................................................................6TASK 2 HOW TO PROMOTE THE PARTICIPATION AND INDEPENDENCE OF USERSOF HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE SERVICES .........................................................................72.1 Factors that may contribute to loss of independence, non-participation and social exclusionfor vulnerable people...................................................................................................................72.2 Organizational systems and processes are managed to promote participation andindependence of users ...............................................................................................................72.3 Analyzing the tensions that arise when balancing the rights of the service user toindependence and choice against the care provider’s duty to protect ....................................8TASK 3 RESPONSIBILITY OF MANAGING AND MONITORING RISKS IN HEALTHAND SOCIAL CARE SETTINGS ................................................................................................93.1 The extent to which individuals are at risk of harm ..............................................................93.2 The effectiveness of policies, procedures and managerial approach within a health orsocial care setting for promoting the management of risks.........................................................9TASK 4 GOOD PRACTICE IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF MEDICINE IS ESSENTIALFOR USERS .......................................................................................................................104.1 Current legislation, codes of practice and policy that apply to handling of medication......104.2 The effectiveness of policies and procedures within a health and social care setting foradministering medication ..........................................................................................................11CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................11REFERENCE.................................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTIONEmpowering users of health and social care is identified as the most important aspect ofevery organization which is dealing in care practices for the different kinds of individuals whoare facing several disabilities and health issues. This approach has found very effective forsharing information and providing several opportunities to user of health care services for takinginitiative that will help in solving issues (Chan, 2010). The present study is carried out toevaluate several issues and element for empowering individuals who are using health and socialcare services to maximize their independence. In this context, this report evaluates severallegislation and sector skills that influence organizational policies and practices in order topromote the rights of health and social care service users. The present study is going to examinethe different aspects of health and social care practices for managing and monitoring risk inhealth and social care settings. This report also evaluates different factors that affectparticipation, choice and independence it also carries out detail investigation of the responsibilityof the health and social care worker for assessing different aspects of health and social practices. TASK 1 HOW THE DESIGN AND REVIEW OF SERVICES PROMOTESAND MAXIMIZES THE RIGHTS OF USERS OF HEALTH AND SOCIALCARE SERVICES 1.1 Current legislations that influences the rights of users of health and social care There are various legislations as well as service sector skills available that influence therights of service users who are taking different kinds of care services from a particular health andsocial care. For managing health and social care requirement of people who are having certaindisabilities, different legislations include Equality Act and Disability discrimination act areplaying important role for ensuring the rights of people associated with the proper care ofpatients and empowerment them (Statham, 2004). By promoting their rights of health and safety,it also helps in enabling service users to participate in decision making about their lives. Thecurrent legislations like Equality and Disability discrimination act has determined various normsin order to protect the rights of disabled person. These norms are playing important role formanaging different operations of health care organization in order to avoid below mentionedelements:

Treating a disabled person less favorably as the person has a disability which is termed as‘direct discrimination’.Indirectly discriminate against a disabled person.Directly discriminate against or harass a person who is wrongly thought to be disabled.As per the case, it is addressed the reduction is number of applications for disability careservices in different health and social care firms. In this context, Equality Act and Disabilitydiscrimination act have played important role for influencing the rights of individuals andempowering service users in order to avoid any kind of discrimination and inequality duringtreatment procedure (Evans, 2004). In order to increase the number of applications, health andsocial care organization has to ensure about the safety and security of personal rights. In additionto that, health care setting has to follow a set of standards or guidance that is issued by theparticular sector controlling authorities. These approaches play important role to attract differentindividuals who are facing different disabilities issues at the time of taking appropriate healthcare services. 1.2 Factors that promote and maximizes the rights of usersIn order to promote different rights of service users in health and social care setting,service provider needs to consider several factors that play important role for empoweringservice user within business entity. In this context, health and social care organization has toavoid discrimination among service users with reference to their disabilities and provide equalservices to all the persons who are facing similar kind of disabilities issues. This in turn serviceusers are able to get appropriate services as per their rights (Holosko, 2001). In addition to that,health organization is required to adopt different treatment procedures as per the specialrequirements of disabled services user. In this regard, management of health and social caresetting is required to provide appropriate training to medical practitioners about differentmethods for rendering best health care services. Service providers need to adopt appropriate timemanagement strategies so they can individually re-solve the problem of users and empower themby protecting their rights (McKeown, Malihi-Shoja and Downe, 2011). Organization is requiredto consider appropriate policies and procedures in order to motivate different individuals ordisabled person that play important role for changing perception and attitude of disabled personabout their physical conditions. Clear communication between service user and service provider

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