Effective Reporting and Record Keeping in Health and Social Care

EFFECTIVE REPORTING AND RECORD KEEPING IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE

P1 Statutory requirements for reporting and record
keeping
• Record keeping and report making in any healthcare setting needs to
consider different outlines to maintain high level of accuracy, confidentiality
and related elements for patients (Prigoff, Sherwin and Divino, 2016).
• The presentation will cover important legislation required to follow to
maintain privacy of patients within healthcare settings.
• It will describe recording and data storing process within any healthcare
organizations. It will undertake Surrey and Sussex NHS hospital to reflect all
major implications of recording process.

CONTD..
Healthcare settings need to lay emphasis on certain legislative frameworks for
reporting and recording health data of patients (Solove, 2016).
For instance, art Surrey and Sussex Hospitals, physicians are required to maintain
privacy and confidentiality of patients arriving to settings.
Health carers and settings need to follow specific privacy laws designed by UK
government,
DATA PROTECTION
• For protecting the data feed into information systems of hospitals, healthcare
setting need to adhere with the principles of GDPR act and Freedom of
Information act.

CONTD..
Freedom of Information
• Freedom of Information Act (2000) also need to be comply within hospitals
to maintain the trust level of patients. As per this act, healthcare
professionals need to provide adequate information of treatments and clinical
measures delivered to patients by them (O’neill, Dexter and Zhang, 2016).
According to this act, patients inhibits full right to know all required
information related to medication and other activities
Human rights
• As per the Human Rights Act (1998), all the convention rights must be
provided to patients within any healthcare setting.