Health and Social Care: Standards, Principles, and Legislation

This report covers the introduction to Health and Social Care, including the standards of care and common induction standards. It also discusses the principles of nursing ethics, record keeping, equality and diversity, a case study on bowel cancer, and key legislation related to Health and Social Care.

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Contents
Introduction.................................................................................................................................................2
Standards of Health and Social Care...........................................................................................................2
Common Induction Standards.....................................................................................................................2
Principles of Care for Nursing.....................................................................................................................3
Record Keeping...........................................................................................................................................3
Equality and Diversity.................................................................................................................................4
Case Studies................................................................................................................................................4
Key Legislation.............................................................................................................................................5
Conclusion...................................................................................................................................................5
References...................................................................................................................................................6

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Introduction
Health and Social Care is defined as services which are provided by the health and social
care providers to people. This term is generally used for referring the healthcare provision
infrastructure with regards to both public and private sectors. The practitioners in health & care
always possess good social skills while working with the patients all the time. They also require
developed emotional intelligence for handling more challenging people.
Standards of Health and Social Care
For delivering a good quality social care services, there is a need of leadership that is
strategic & clear operation management. The leaders who use National occupational standards
always feel that the standards are helpful for reinforcing the link to operational management
from strategy and service standards. There is always huge variety in standards and they benefit
from comprehensive coverage and user focus. These standards cover complete UK and they are
developed by LSIS (Learning and Skills Improvement Services). The basic of all standards is to
take care of the patients in any situation and provide them with the best facility possible. NOS
give the statements of skills and information required by supported employment workforce
(Care, 2006).
Common Induction Standards
There are in total eight common introduction standards:
1. The role of health and social care worker standard
2. Standards for individual development
3. Effectual communiqué Standard
4. Impartiality and Inclusion Standard
5. Implementation of the duty of care and its principles

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6. Common principles of protecting the health & social care standards
7. Support of being centered standard
8. Health & Safety in elderly people and social heed setting (Skillforcare, 2010).
Principles of Care for Nursing
1. Nurses should treat every human being with dignity and humanity. They should be able
to anticipate the needs of the patients.
2. Nurses are responsible for the actions taken and are always Answerable to the judgments
of the actions they carry out.
3. They should always be vigilant about the risk so that no one gets harmed.
4. They should always promote care not just to the patients but to the families too and value
their decisions.
5. Nurses should deal with the issues and the information sensitively and also deal with the
complaints in effective manner.
6. The staff should always be updated with the new skills and the changes in case if any.
7. The complete staff should work in team collaboratively.
8. All the people in the nursing staff should lead by examples and keep developing
themselves (Adams, 2016).
Record Keeping
There standards are as follows:
1. The performance indicators should always describe the certain behaviors which display
that the standards are met.
2. All indicators are not expected to become evident.
3. The performance indicators could be displayed if requested.

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4. There are particular incidents where OT identifies the certain performance indicators
have less importance and relatedness because of client factors. This might call for IT to
known about further clarification (Raza, 2012).
Equality and Diversity
Equality majorly means to make sure that everybody in a setting has equal opportunities
irrespective of their abilities, background and lifestyle.
Diversity majorly means to appreciate the non similarities in between people and then
treating people’s values, beliefs, lifestyles and cultures with dignity and respect.
In the environment of health and social; care, it is significant that both these things are at
heart with whatever is done. The patients and the users of the health care services are different
individuals and the health care practitioners should always make sure that all their needs which
are also diverse should be met.
When it comes to promoting the equality and diversity at any workplace, the major
criteria is to just prevent the discrimination at the workplace. It might happen that sometime one
setting might be discriminating against a patient in an accidental way especially when the patient
is vulnerable because of the health, age or any type of disability, hence having an awareness of
the probable obstacles and removing them is necessary (Stonehouse, 2015).
Case Studies
The case study is about increasing the symptoms of bowel cancer within the Asian
Community. It is done by NHS Hilling don.
It gives the illustration of the support and benefits of Collecting and usage of the
information system for identifying the needs of the people.
Background: NHS Hillingdon found that:

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1. Bowel Cancer causes a larger proportion of deaths all over the world.
2. People under the age of 75 die a lot due to this cancer which is the large in number in
Asia.
3. Cancer is the big contributor to inequality in death rates.
Action: The awareness campaign was launched in the South of Borough in which Asians are
high in population. Due to this awareness the people gets to know the symptoms of bowel cancer
which reduces the chances of late diagnosis of this disease (Commision, 2016).
Key Legislation
There are several Key Legislations related to Health and Social Care.
 Workplace safety and Health Care Act 1974.
 Health and Safety Regulation 1981 that also involves amendment on 2009.
 Management and Safety Regulation 1999
 Time of Work Regulations 1998
 Care Standard Act 2000 (Excellence, 2013)
 Food and Safety Act 1990 and Hygiene Act 2005
 Environment Protection Act 1990
 Damages, illness and unsafe incidence Regulations 1995
 Light at Work Regulation 1989.
Conclusion
This report focuses on the health and Social Care introduction and t he legislation and the
law related to it. Principles of nursing ethics are mentioned with the equality and diversity in
health and social care. A case study related to the social care is also discussed about the bowel
cancer. Standard of Health care and common induction standards are also discussed in brief.

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References
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Pirkle, C. M., Dumont, A., & Zunzunegui, M. V. (2012). Medical recordkeeping, essential but
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Raza, M. (2012). Good Medical Record Keeping. International Journal of Collaborative
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Stonehouse, D. (2015). The Support Worker's Role In Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. British
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