Health and Social Care Assignment in PDF

Running head: HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE
HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE
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HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE
Executive Summary
This study has analysed the falling standards of care provided by Stafford hospital under the
NHS. Some of the main reasons for the deteriorated care standards are shortage of health care
staffs, low wages of the care workers, who were reluctant to provide appropriate care for the
patient. Some of the other factors includes lack of empathy among the hospital staffs and non-
compliance with the NMC standards. Budget constraint has been one of the other reasons for the
deteriorating reputation of the organisation. This has resulted in patient deaths and drop out from
the regimen. This hospital can only be allowed to operate after a comprehensive restoration plan
has been chalked out about the revised pay of the staffs, recruitment of new staffs as per the
competency standard and ample training facilities for the health care staffs.

HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE
Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Analysis in case study......................................................................................................................4
Impact of the unethical behaviour on the Safford hospital’s reputation......................................4
Impact of unethical behavior on public confidence.....................................................................4
Impact of unethical behavior on medical staff and whether the hospital should be allowed to
continue to operate.......................................................................................................................6
Impact of unethical behavior on NHS.........................................................................................7
Recommendations............................................................................................................................8
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................9
References......................................................................................................................................11

HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE
Introduction
Healthcare ethics is the branch of ethics dealing with ethical issues in health and
healthcare, science and medicine. It includes the conversation about the choices of treatment and
the care which the individual family members, individuals and the health care provider should
face. The four doctrines of ethics in healthcare (autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, justice)
helps to make ethical health care decisions.
The case study has been based on the failure of care that has occurred I the Stafford
hospital run by Mid Staffordshire NHS. It has been reported that 400-1200 patients have died
due to the lack of care, shortage of staffs, such that the patients did not receive medical facilities
and care and wet without food, drinks and medication. The staffs who are not trained properly
have been overburdened with workload beyond their capabilities. The condition was so bad that
the junior doctors were kept in charge of the entire hospital at night while the non-medical staffs
unattended the patients who came to the triage. In overall, there was a comprehensive
degradation in the care standard of the hospital. Shortage of staffs, lack of morale, lack of
compassion and a budget cut has been considered to be the main reason for this failure to provide
care to the patients.
This report aims to assess and analyze the incidents and draw conclusion about why the
hospital has not been able to meet the basic standards of care, with a descriptive analysis of each
of the parameters hat have not been met. Finally a recommendation will be provided on the basis
of the points that has been discussed in the analysis section of the paper.