Contemporary Issue in Health and Social Care Assignment : NHS
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Contemporary Issue inHealth and Social Care
Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1TASK 1............................................................................................................................................11.1 Evaluation of information relating to health and social care reaches the public domain......11.2 Analysing different techniques for disseminating information relating to health and socialcare...............................................................................................................................................21.3 Evaluating different ways by which information relating to health and social care ispresented can influence attitudes, thoughts and behaviour of people..........................................3TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4Introduction..................................................................................................................................42.1 Explaining ways by which media is influencing the attitudes and behaviour of people inrelation to dementia......................................................................................................................52.2 Evaluation of ways by which public can assess the reliability and validity of mediainformation...................................................................................................................................53.1 Different perspectives on Dementia relating to HSC............................................................63.2 Monitoring the ways by which different perspectives gleaned from reliable source onDementia have changed over time...............................................................................................73.3 Assessing the relevance of the findings to health and social care practice locally................83.4 Analysing the factors that influenced the development of different perspectives over time.84.1 Analysing the extent to which local attitudes reflect those found at a national level............94.2 Evaluating the validity of public attitudes and behaviours in relation to Dementia..............94.3 Justifying possible consequences of contemporary thinking for health and social careprovision and services..................................................................................................................9CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11
INTRODUCTIONHealth and social care is referred to the services which are given to people related to healthcare. In today’s world, health and social care is facing various contemporary issues whichincludes problem of fund raising, skills nurses and doctors and many more (Curtis and Burns,2015). The main aim of this report is to analyse the impact of contemporary issues on thedevelopment of health and social care in UK. This report is based on the individuals who aresuffering from dementia. Health and social care organisation selected in this report is NHS(National health society) of England, United Kingdom. This report includes informationregarding national health services which affects attitudes and behaviour of people. Publicconcerns regarding this sector are evaluated along with the ways by which public can assessreliability of media information about the industry. The assessment of reliability of informationprovided by media common people about health & social care industry is given below.TASK 11.1 Evaluation of information relating to health and social care reaches the public domainInformation in health and social care is the data which is required to be communicated withthe public, this information includes data related to finance of Health & Social Careorganisations, care standards, collaborative care etc. Organisations which are involved inproviding this information are statutory agencies, regulatory agencies, pressure groups and otheragencies. In the context of United Kingdom, there are various organisations which areresponsible for providing these type of information and one of the most important organisationamong them is NHS. This organisation is a fully-pledged regulator which regulates varioushealth care organisations of UK as well as in some other geographical areas of Europe. The most important thing to be considered here is the communication channels andmediums which are be used by health care agencies to communicate important information topublic domain. Some of those channels are mentioned and explained below:Mass media – It is important to convey information regarding health and social care topublic arena so that it can be a topic of debate and most of the people can be aware of theinformation which is required to communicated. Mass media includes various modern agemediums through which information can be communicated to an ample number of people (Kabraand Ramesh, 2016). In the specific context of HSC, only dissemination of information is not1
enough, it is required that the data which is circulated must be viable and reliable. For example,NHS is a major regulator of health and social care services in UK. If NHS requires to circulateany information to public domain they can use News report using Televisions, Internet and othersources. Dementia is a major disease which affects the functioning of human brain, NHS canspread awareness regarding the prevention and management of this disease using mass mediachannels. Conferences – This medium is considered as the most effective one as according to this,various experts of health and social care organisations come together and raise issues regarding aspecific topic of health and social care (Evans, 2016). Mass media is a very good medium to linkwith experts and interested parties. This conference is either recorded or circulated live usingmass media tools. For example, NHS can conduct a conference where they can invite variousexperts having knowledge of dementia and they can raise various issues and conclude varioussolutions so that public can gain detailed information regarding health and social care. If theinformation is true from conferences then it can be disseminated to the public. Sponsorships – This is also a medium by which health and social care organisations likeNHS can disseminate information to public by sponsoring various events which has high publicapproach. For example, in order to spread awareness about dementia and other diseases, NHScan sponsor sports events which aims at significant level of public involvement and has highyouth approach that can help in capturing attention of mass people at once. Traditional modes of media communication – Besides mass media mediums, traditionalmodes of media communication can also be used such as local newspapers etc. (Polater andDemirdogen, 2018). This kind of communication medium has its own benefits as this can assistorganisations like NHS to capture small number of people limited to a specific geographicalarea. For example, NHS can use this medium to communicate information to limited number ofpeople such as public of one district. Also public rely on these mediums to gather desiredinformation due to which it can be said that there is high reliability and validity of this medium. 1.2 Analysing different techniques for disseminating information relating to health and socialcareDisseminating information is referred to the process which is circulating data to publicabout health and social care. Mediums by which this information can be circulated are mentionedabove. But those mediums require various techniques which can help health and social care such2
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