Empowering Users in Health and Social Care: Rights, Independence, and Safety

EMPOWERING USERS IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE
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Table of Contents
1.1 Explanation on how current legislation and sector skills standards influence organizational
policies and practices for promoting and maximizing the rights of users of health and social care
services:...........................................................................................................................................2
1.2 Factors that may affect the achievement of promoting and maximizing the rights of users of
health and social care services:........................................................................................................3
1.3 How communication between care workers and individuals contribute to promoting and
maximizing the rights of users of health and social care services:..................................................4
2.1. Factors that may contribute to loss of independence, non-participation, and social exclusion
for vulnerable people:......................................................................................................................5
2.2. How organizational systems and processes are managed to promote participation and
independence of users of health and social care services:...............................................................6
2.3. Tensions that arise when balancing the rights of the individual to independence and choice
against the care provider’s duty to protect:......................................................................................7
3.1 Case study from a health or social care setting to identify the extent to which individuals are
at risk of harm:.................................................................................................................................8
4.1 Review on current legislation, codes of practice and policy that apply to the handling of
medication:......................................................................................................................................9
4.2 The effectiveness of policies and procedures within a health and social care setting for
administering medication:...............................................................................................................9
References:....................................................................................................................................11
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1.1 Explanation on how current legislation and sector skills standards influence
organizational policies and practices for promoting and maximizing the rights of users of
health and social care services:
Good health of people is the elemental, underlying along with appurtenance in the extension and
development of the providence of UK. There are various codifications, law enactment and sector
skill grades and class which are successfully affecting the customs and strategies of organisations
which assist in the accreditation of users by increasing their rights of permitting and allowing
themselves. Hence to describe the prevailing rules and programme which can be regarded as
criterion is very dominant to understand them very properly (World Health Organization, 2015).
Legislation: - Legislation is also explained as the procedure for initiating and inaugurates any
policy or scheme in the particular country. So it is very crucial for a country to organize law
enactment to be pursued to command the actions in a country. Legislations and schemes are
assembled through improving the bill in UK parliament. There are numerous law enactments of
the authorization of rights of UK people, which are as follows:-
 Health services Public Health Act 1968
 Power of Attorney Act 1971
 Children Act 1989
 Disability Discrimination Act 1995
 Data Protection Act 1998
 Human rights Act 1998
 Equality Act 2010
 Health and Social Care Act 2012
Sector skill standards: - It can be explained as the quality or calibre set of accomplishing and
implementing each any every movements and commotions in this sector. These levels are the
basis or the point of reference which should be definitely emanated by the organisations in their
policies and programmes to entitle and qualify the rights of the users. There are various
exemption of the users which are licensed by productive and successful legislation and schemes
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of organisations. The following are some case studies which elaborate the impact of legislation
on the organisational schemes and programmes (Hughes and Ferrett, 2011).
Individual rights: - Margaret has been recognized and confirmed with the sign of breast cancer
and she takes a very courageous decision to fight with the disease by taking suitable and
necessary treatment. She requested to the local primary care trust for bickering or supporting her
for the treatment but unfortunately her request has been declined because of the reason that the
treatment was very costly. She determined herself to go the court for her rights.
The rights of children like to, protection and reliability rejoice and attain, favourable
deliberation, bearing in mind their wishes, privacy and security of their records and information
must be maintained.
In the initial position of Matt at Sure Start Centre he has faced many problems. Each and every
child was obtaining the proper guidance except Josie. She is a member of a family who loves to
travel and they live in a caravan. The members did not allow the girl because they were of the
opposite mentality and they did not support the idea of her family which they were spending. So
we can see that in this case the right of equality is not maintained in a proper way and the
discrimination was made on very minor issues (Akpan, 2011).
Situation of refusal is also observed in the current economy. This is due to the reason that the
executer thinks that every member of staff should dress himself with a very trending hairstyle
which will be helpful for them in attracting more and more clients.
1.2 Factors that may affect the achievement of promoting and maximizing the rights of
users of health and social care services:
For sponsoring participation, instruction and information there are two main ways. These are
explained as follows: -
Information: - There are some residents and the family of Mr. Albert Small has full right now the
medical care provided to Mr. Albert Small with their side reactions. As well as, the care bunch
should give the necessary judgement taken and the instruction in the simple way. That they can
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