Analysis of Health and Social Care Principles in Care Home Practice

This report provides an overview of health and social care practices within care homes, emphasizing the importance of protecting clients and colleagues from harm through established procedures and policies. It explains the implementation of relevant legislations, regulations, and codes of practice, highlighting their impact on organizational policy and practice. The report also examines how local policies are developed in accordance with national requirements. Furthermore, it discusses the application of support principles to ensure proper care for service users, using the example of Patricia and her care within a care home. Key theories underpinning health and social care practice, such as Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, are explained, illustrating how these theories are applied to prioritize and address the diverse needs of individuals in care settings. The report concludes by highlighting the importance of organizational policies in promoting effective communication and a safe working environment, ensuring high-quality care and service delivery.

Health and Social Care Practice
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Table of Contents
Introduction............................................................................................................................ 3
Task 1.................................................................................................................................... 4
Task 2.................................................................................................................................... 7
Task 3.................................................................................................................................... 8
Conclusion........................................................................................................................... 12
Reference List...................................................................................................................... 13
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Introduction
The needs of the homeless and the helpless public from diverse racial background and faith
are taken by the diverse communal care homes. Health and social care is an expression that
speaks about to the services that are offered to the disadvantaged by the wellbeing and
communal care donors. This comprises of the entire healthcare infrastructure of the civic
and the private division. Currently, these segments are facing many inconveniences and
thus, are not able provide the service that these people used to provide efficiently. This
learning will be spotlighting on the familiarity of the diverse ideologies of support that must
be employed in the wellbeing and social care traditions. Additionally, this study will also put
emphasis on the understanding of the impacts and influences of the strategies, legislations,
conventions, codes of practice and values on business plans and preparations. Furthermore,
this study will also aid to comprehend the assumptions that strengthen heath and social care
practice. Lastly, it will also be highlighted on how to contribute to the expansion and
execution of the health and social care organizational policies.
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Task 1 (refer to appendix for fact sheet)
Q1. Outline the procedure that are adopted in care homes for protecting clients and
colleagues from harm [P1.2]
The care homes are facing many problems in the recent years and thus some plans and
procedures have been developed for the protection of the clients and ensure that the
colleagues do not harm these people in any way. The procedures that are adopted by the
care homes for the protection of clients are summarized below:
For the protection of the clients, it has been necessary for the implementation of new policies
and that too according to the rules and regulations stated for the care homes. Personalised
care planning have been developed for the protection of the clients by special set of policies
that would ensure the care of the clients (Mozley, 2017). Steps have been adopted by the
care homes to assess the risks and manage these issues so that the risks are analyzed and
managed totally. The workforce of the care homes must be informed of the possible risks
that these people are going to face in the recent time and in what way these can be
prevented. A scheme of partnership working has been developed to ensure that the workers
perform their duties in an adequate manner and protect their clients from any damage
(Aveyard, 2014). Additionally, a proper record of the clients must be maintained with the
intention of getting any required information at the time of emergency or to serve them in a
satisfactory way.
An act named as the Care Act has been developed to ensure the sustainability of the rights
of the people and the carers. This act states that the care homes ought to have a clearer,
fairer compassionate system. The care homes have adopted policies for the continuity of
care if the carer moves and new protection system must be enabled if the providers fail to
provide their efficient service. The local authorities have been provided with the responsibility
to prevent, delay and lessen the possibilities of mounting the needs of the people living in
their individual areas. These individuals have to notify and counsel the public to understand
the concerned system and asses varied services and policies for the future.
Q2. Explain the implementation of policies, legislation, regulations and codes of
practice that are relevant to own work in health and social care [P2.1]
The care homes must adopt several policies, legislations, regulations and codes of practice
for the development of the health and social care structure. These impacts heavily on the
operations of the homes and the reforms that are brought to the care homes and to the
process of providing social care. These policies ensure the protection of both the clients and
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the service providers. Simultaneously, it will convey realistic course related to finest exercise
for accurate health and social care needs (Redmond, 2017). The objective of the different
policies, legislations and the codes of practice are to ensure that the care homes are
advanced in nature and significant, understandable to the clientele and the workers and to
certify whether secure and principled care is provided to all the folks.
All persons in this sector require to be assigned with a precise set of ambitions and duties. A
number of these are summarised below:
• NHS, to guarantee the exact and appropriate policies to the rising financial needs
and racial factors of the people’s background, continuously weighed up the tactics,
codifications, policy and system. The Health and Social Act engages the health care fields all
through the United Kingdom. It is currently the most advanced and the enhanced legislation
in the whole of UK.
• The Health and Social act accurately provide tactics for executives for wellbeing and
communal care, responsibilities of specialized character and field supervision and
consequently, it is helpful for individual job in health-care homes. These are competent to
please the desires of the particular person (Thompson, 2015).
• Some policies like the Quality Protects, Right to Action, Valuing People and Every
Child Matters subsist for the welfare of the clients in a care home. The systems of NHS to
facilitate the importance of welfare are prepared on the foundation of pertaining to the
approval of the tolerant with the aim of utilizing their healthiness records, administration on
information safety, and a broad range of complex lawful specialized responsibilities that are
constrained concerning supervision, consumption and disclosure of information.
Q3. Explain how local policies and procedures can be developed in accordance with
national and policy requirements [P2.2]
There are an assortment of way and conducts to envisage how neighbouring strategies and
measures can be developed in accord with nationwide and local plan requirements. If there
is splitting up of labour then effectiveness would move towards the structure consequently.
The ways in which these policies and procedures can be portrayed as follows:
 The procedures and the policies can be different in accordance with the necessity of
the citizens in a country. The UK government directly controls the health and social
care organization and thus, a region with an enhanced or substandard
socioeconomic position possibly will be familiarized to communal healthcare
consequently (Glasby, 2017).
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 Consequently, a concern preparation will be made, by means of the care home to
give advice to the personalities on their fitness and concern needs. In the
perspective of this delivered examination, personnel will be authorized to contribute
to the information by the objective of a perfect individual’s handlings and services.
 According to a human being’s private difficulties, guiding principles and measures will
be produced in the healthiness and societal homes as per the state scheme needs.
 The workers have to be efficiently educated to recognize a variety of systems and
legislations in order to put into practice for the implementation of their obligations. To
be acquainted with the accurate technique to execute a range of means, training is of
immense assistance (Dickinson and O'Flynn, 2016).
 To look carefully to the needs of the people consequently, the business will comprise
of working as one with the wellbeing and communal care. The individuals will be
authorized to prefer their individual services in order to organize their individual
monetary tactics. In addition to this, having complex requirements, individual concern
will be synchronized.
 Inspirations and counselling of the workers will assist these people to offer improved
services to the aged citizens and to the kids in order to stay alive and remain as
service users. These ought to certify that there is no utilization of any strategy inside
the group (Moss, 2017).
Q4. Evaluate the impact of policy, legislation, regulation and codes of practice on
organisational policy and practice [P2.3, D2]
The foremost cause for which there are introduction of newest strategies, legislations,
conventions and codes of exercise is to convey the required improvement in the care houses
such that it is fulfils all the pitches of protection, truthfulness, regulation when observed from
customers’ point of view in addition to service suppliers’ point of view. These impacts can be
described as follows:
 With the intention of maintaining the supremacy of the service offered to the
customers, an Act recognized as Health Professions Council has appeared to
subsistence.
 By the insertions of these edicts and guidelines it has been seen that there is a
noteworthy improvement in the Prince of Wales House, consequently gratifying
mutually the clienteles’ and service providers’ standpoint.
 Through the modification of the innovative act, a fresh prevailing structure, which
purposes based on the examinations, conventions and re-evaluation of communal
services. The structure was identified as the National Care Standards Commission.
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 As on 20th July 2000, the supervision projected The Core Standard Act, 2000 that
afterwards came into survival past two years. This legal policy aspires to the
reformation of the structure for UK founded welfare homes.
 A solitary shift that had been established to choose an extremely important
development for the adults and the children named as Safeguarding Vulnerable
Groups Act, back in 2006. This proceeds to deal with the fortification of the children
and adults who are uncovered to jeopardy. Any kind of infuriating can show the way
to a penalty in a felony if disobeyed with the rule. In reality, a sovereign body
described as Independent Barring Board is recognized to observe on this
characteristic.
 The generally talented benefit would be the adjustment of a standard principles and
guiding principle, which can be chased worldwide, together with Prince of Wales
Home. By means of the performances of the fresh guidelines, the Prince of Wales
care home is at the present liberated from the grievances which were former reported
by CQC throughout their assessment.
Task 2
Q5. Explain how principles of support are applied to ensure that service users are
cared for in care homes [P1.1]
The principles of support are applied in order to make sure that the service users receive the
services by staying within the home. The care principles support the work of the workers but
they also make sure that they are able to provide their consumers with proper heath care
services (Council, 2015). In case of Patricia, the place where she is being treated by the
health care providers organize games and promote group activities but Patricia being too
aged she prefers to stay in the lounge area and just watch TV and take rest. The health care
providers try their best to make Patricia participate in the events organized but Patricia
keeps on denying the offers and does not participates as she feels she has worked more
than enough in her life and it is time for her rest. Based on the scenario it could be said that
health care workers as per the care principles support work efficiently by providing proper
services to the patients receiving services from them. The care principle support makes it
easy for the services users to get cared like in care homes by providing them suitable
amenities within the sector and it also makes its workers to follow the practice to ensure that
quality of the service provided is good for the better treatment. Thus, like this way the
principles of care are applied in order to ensure that the patients receive in care home
services within the premises.
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Q6. Explain the theories that underpin health and social care practice [P3.1, M2]
Maslow’s hierarchy of requirements is one of the theories that support the health and social
care practices. According to this theory, the needs of the human are classified based on
numerous stages and their basic requirements are given the utmost priority (Tanner, 2017).
Application of this model can be seen in the case of Patricia as the health care providers
were giving priorities to the basic needs of Patricia by providing her with suitable amenities.
Another model that supports the practices carried out by the health and social care service
providers is Human Growth and Development theory. According to this model, the service
user requires different kind of help and care at different stages (Beckett, and Taylor, H.,
2016). These care and help that is required is provided to them as per the service user’s
growth, age, and development. It varies from person to person. The practical application of
this theory can be observed in the case study of Patricia as the services provided to her by
the health care was varying from other persons. As per this theory, eight stages are there by
which a healthy individual must pass from being infant to late adulthood. In addition, when
going through each stage individual faces and masters new challenges. Furthermore, every
stage is build upon the completion of the previous stages. Thus, it could be said that by
following this model or theory the health care providers were able to provide Patricia with
efficient services based on her growth and development. Therefore, it has been observed
that these two theories assist the practices of health and social care.
Q7. Analyse how social processes impact on users of health and social care services
[P3.2]
Social processes lead to isolation, marginalization, and exclusion for example
unemployment, poverty, poor health, deficit of education, and physical disabilities. The social
processes carried out leads to all these things that later on create a huge impact on the
users of health and social care services. Due to this fact, people those are unemployed face
several issues in order to receive proper health care services from the provider. Unemployed
people face problems concerning the rates charged by the health care providers and are
sometimes not even able to pay the price of the medicinal requirements. Poverty is another
big issue and has a great negative influence on the people who are unable to pay for their
medical requirements and thus suffer from illness and severe health conditions, as it is not
possible for the health care providers to treat them without receiving a single penny. People
who lack proper education are always treated inferior within the society that makes it difficult
for them to get the services of the health care providers. The social processes that are
carried out by the superior people also influence the people suffering from physical
disabilities. They also make it tougher for the health and social care providers by hindering
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their steps towards the people going through poverty, physical disabilities, and poor health.
Marginalization creates a huge negative influence on the people who are unprivileged by
pushing them out of the society, as the health care providers are unable to recognize them
(Knepper et al., 2017).
Q8. Evaluate the effectiveness of inter-professional working [P3.3, D1]
Inter-professional working is one of the most essential parts in health and social care
sectors. It is required to make sure that there is proper teamwork and the members are
coordinating with each other in a proper way (Thomas et al., 2014). The process of inter-
professionalism consists of members of different agencies operating in health and social
care sector work together to provide their service users with appropriate and effective
services and products. The health care workers and social workers cooperate with each
other through proper communication process to develop inter-professionalism. Developing
proper inter-professionalism in the health and social care sector makes it possible for them
to come up with better quality services and products for its customers. Development of inter-
professionalism in the work premises is significant and it can be achieved by increasing the
specialization in the codes of practices for coming up with integrated care. Inter-professional
working is must in the health and social care to make sure that there is proper
communication and cooperation among the workers of both the fields. Thus, in this way it is
possible to develop effective inter professionalism in work contributing towards the health
and social care sector.
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Task 3
Q9. Analyse the benefit of following a person-centred approach with the service users
of Prince of Wales House, Ipswich care home. [P1.3, M1]
Person-centred approach values the fondness, requirements of the individuals in handling
behaviour, and accordingly modifies the aims of the being. Person-centred approach is to be
concerned by a policy to the expansion and liberation of service that places the individual
and their family in the hub of the judgment making courses concerning their behaviour. It
takes care to spot significant changes in the thoughts that go away whilst taking care of a
human being. This directs to a structure where the business is the solitary body that
determines how an individual resides and how he wishes to be cared and controlled. The
requirements of the entity were chiefly mistreated in the past, taking that the desires of a
definite assemblage were common rather than of a particular human being in nature. This
has been in the practice of changing to a structure where the holdup schemes are
considered amid the providers and the receivers and the greatest technique is selected
keeping the requirements of the character at the front position (Brett et al., 2014).
For this case study the Prince of Wales home, Ipswich has been taken in consideration as it
highlights on the usage of the person-centred approach. The housing concern puts the
individual at the midpoint of their services and endorses their elementary individual privileges
for the people who are recently suffering from dementia. The workers of the care home is
trained in a very good manner and the different local and national policies, which relates to
the principles of social care and health at the care home, are made aware of. An illustration
of their understandings can be comprehended by means of an case of Patricia, a 84 year
aged widow, anguishing from Alzheimer’s sickness and she deems that she is in the
inhabited care residence momentarily for a few treatment even though she is in there
eternally (van Weel et al., 2018). Patricia used to frequently ask the workers how long she is
to stay there. At this moment, conventional concern house workers will almost certainly
inform her the fact or pay no attention to her words, which even though factual, might split
her heart. The employees here construct a cognisant attempt to keep her false impression
lively by telling her that the conduct is approximately over. This modest attempt makes all
the variation when dealing with patients with a delicate situation like Alzheimer’s. A
development like this can bring an excellence of existence with such efforts and can have is
overwhelming. Such a policy can also contend the patients, as the verdict about taking care
of them is not made for them but rather with them.
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Q10. Explain any ethical dilemmas and conflict that may have arisen when providing
care, support and protection to the elderly clients in care homes [P1.4]
Individuals being treated for the Alzheimer's disease and other psychosomatic
circumstances might have a extremely brittle mentality and their insight of realism might vary
infinitely from the realism we all observe. The person-centred approach places the
individuals to be cared for at the frontage and midpoint of their cure and care, while the
personality being treated with extreme concern and admiration, the compassionate
employees might observe some turmoil concerning the treatment these people have to
manage and the realism that are presented to their patients. Frequently, the employees of
the residential home have to recline to their victims and control suggested therapy against
the patients’ requests (Harris and White, 2018).
Illustrations of definite principled quandaries an employee might observe in the case study of
Patricia, who has been suffering from Alzheimer’s sickness catechizes about her mother. An
employee did try to let her know the truth that she expired a long time ago, which upon
hearing, she sobbed. The staff did feel it was the incorrect reply, but previously when she
was told that her mother was in some kind of work, she was adamant on going to her place
of job to take a trip with her. She is also suggested group deeds that persuaded cognitive
games like playing cards, which, regardless of her inquisitiveness to engage in recreation,
she becomes unsuccessful at it. An associate of the workforce at all times takes her to these
sport, notwithstanding her wish to unwind and stare at television in the lounge area.
Nevertheless, devoid of the actions, she would snooze during the daylight hours and
become uneasy at nighttime. The staffs here clearly have to make a verdict in opposition to
her will, which positively creates a decent impasse.
Q11. Explain own role, responsibilities, accountabilities and duties in the context of
working with those within and outside the health and social care workplace [P4.1]
Taking into consideration the role of being a staff member of the ICON care home, the
different rules regulations and accountabilities that are to be taken by me will be as follows.
Firstly, I need to act as a coordinator between the patients and the staffs of the home. I
should introduce different policies for the operations, which will in turn ensure a better quality
of fooding and lodging of the helpless. Moreover, I must provide a better and clean
environment at all times to every individuals. I must develop some policies so that I can both
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deal with the staffs and the patients in a very constraint manner and any staffs violating the
rule must be educated of the consequences and ensure that in no way these people bring
any harm to the clients. I must be proactive for any emergencies and a plan should be
maintained for resolving the same. I must educate myself of the different ways in which i can
handle a patient and help them to gain a comfortable life inside the home. Moreover, i should
coordinate with the needs of the patients and the management and help them in achieving
the needs of these people. I should also train some of my members for special care to the
aged or to the kids. I must also be able to converse with the family members of the patients
and solve any problems these people are facing. I must also fulfil the needs of these people
in providing with their or their patients’ desires. I must create a special department for the
management and supervision of the staff members and their work so that I do not face any
abuse in the later periods (Keogh et al., 2017).
Q12. Evaluate own contribution to the development and implementation of health and
social care organisational policy [P4.2, D3]
Taking into consideration the reality that I, being an member of staff of ICON housing care
home which is affianced chiefly in communicating aid to individuals tormenting from
Dimentia, my responsibility in the association is of supreme significance in which upholding
the regulations and conventions of the association will be done. taking into account the fact
that I am the administrator of the concern my involvement is vital in serving others engage in
their division in maintaining the specialized principles of the association. It is also vital that I
carry out my responsibility in a appropriate manner because I am the initial line of protection.
For a business to be capable to converse correctly with the clients, obvious and succinct
guidelines should be built in place.
Being a staff member, I need to essentially take care of any past abuses, solve any
problems regarding these, and take care that future abuses do not occur. I must be
educating the other staff members about these abuses and develop a formal committee to
look into this matter. Any staff members who turn out to be not following the rules and
regulations must be punished. I must set up a proper hierarchy for the checking of the
processes and the policies that are being implemented in the care home. I must arrange for
workshops in which I would educate the old people about the rights they have and offer
some entertainment programs so that they are both happy and comfortable (Bowling, 2014).
A proper record of the patients must be maintained and specialized people must be also
hired for the maintenance of the medicine stocks and I must take care that no nuisance
takes place
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