Assignment on Sociological Perspective
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TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3Critically explain the sociological perspectives based on the challenges identified in involvingservice users ...............................................................................................................................7CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12
Question chosen is: What are the challenges of involving service-users in health services? Whatsociological perspectives can help us explain those challenges?INTRODUCTIONMaintaining the health and social care and involving the service users within a health andsocial care service is a big challenge for the organisation. For a health and social care setting,such measures are significantly important in order to develop a good connectivity with theirservice users or patients. It leads to growth of quality of health care services that are been offeredthe organisation. The report will analyse the challenges that are been faced by a UK based healthand social care service provider like NHS. It will help in looking after the proper management ofthe health and social measures that are been carried out by the organisation in a significantmanner. The report is presented in regard to mental health patients that are the major service userat NHS.ANALYSISIn a health and social care setting like NHS, the proper planning of the services andtreatment measures is very important for the organisation in order to carry out the health andsocial care measures and thus will help in meeting the functions of the health and social careenterprise. The major challenge or issue for the organisation related to their patients is that iscauses the organisation to carry out the service measures in an effective and significant manner.As per the health and social care act, 2012, a service user for the health care form is the citizen orpatient who needs medical attention and treatment. Their involvement will include theirtreatment or consultation or deciding the treatment process form them. Thus planning theservice user involvement can be a major challenge for an organization like NHS. Besides this,the involvement can be also based for research purpose.The patients or the service users suffering from the disease like mental ailment will lookafter planning of the treatment services and facilities which will help in carrying out of servicesand thus will lead to rise in quality of treatment measures of mental diseases which are offeredby health and social care service provider in a significant manner. The sense of reluctance andprejudices that are associated with these patients related to sexuality or disability are the effectivefactor that impacts the suitable planning of the treatment measures which assist in execution ofthe medical support for them. As patients or customers of NHS, suffering from a mental disease
will be in need of specialised care, the organisation will look after the proper gathering andevaluation of the treatment measures which are been carried out by the organisation. However, these patients tend and prefer to be relatively adamant and to be aloof from anysort of interaction due to physical, emotional, psychological or sociological factors such as age,gender and ethics influence their involvement in the decision making and developing properservices for them will be a major challenge for NHS (Shubber and et.al., 2016). As per variousstatistics Thomas and et.al., (2016), every 4th person in UK is diagnosed with effective form ofone of the other mental disease. Thus, in this case their proper involvement and planning of theservice user interaction is very important. Handling such patients is a big challenge for theorganisation as they are not prone to much interaction and are reluctant towards any sort ofvoluntary interaction or involvement for a medical service providing. Thus, it will lead to rise inthe carrying out of the effective health and social care measures by the organisation (Naslundand et.al., 2016). As the number of mental cases is relatively high, proper and effective measuresare required to be observed by health and social care service providers. They will see through theproper planning of the health care measures and hence enhances the quality of treatment andmedication from the service users or patients at a health and social care setting like NHS.Other than this, developing their interaction with other patients or service users in ahealth and social care setting will complex and challenging for NHS. In accordance with findingsof Shubber and et.al., (2016), the proper communication or bonding may help out to some extent,but effective planning of the services and treatment measures will influence the performance ofthe mental health care service provider and helps in ensuring a rise in carrying out of the mentaltreatment facilities. That will help in proper identification of their needs and ensuring their directinvolvement as the service user within the health and social care facilities that are beendeveloped by the health and social care services. This helps in raising the quality of treatmentmeasures. In order to get their proper involvement within the decision making, treatment measuresand following of the health care services within the organisation, the support from their doctors,care providers, family and friends can be taken. As per the views of Naslund and et.al., (2016),proper awareness’s can increased on the individual or social level that will help in proper rise inthe treatment measures which enhances the quality of services and thus will lead to rise in the
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