Responsibilities of Health and Social Care Workers & UK Organizations

This report provides an overview of the responsibilities of health and social care workers in the UK, highlighting five key national organizations involved in delivering health and social care: NHS England, NHS Improvement, Care Quality Commission, UK Health Security Agency, and Health Education E...Read More

Responsibilities of a Health
and Social Care Worker

Table of content
 Introduction
 Five key national organisations that deliver health and social care in the UK
 Three key pieces of legislation and policy that govern the delivery of health and social care within the
nations of the UK
 Mentioned organisation function and contribution to national health and wellbeing
 Conclusion
 References

Introduction
 Perspective in healthcare setting is usually refer as perception or analysis
which is used within healthcare setting to manage condition.
 As per this, there are four main perspectives which is commonly used in
health care setting such as evidence-based medicine, values based
healthcare, triple aim and appropriate care which is showing the
perspective in healthcare setting.
 The various perspective is essential because it help cut down on
miscommunication and improve the experience of patient with healthcare
setting.

Five national organisations in healthcare setting
 In reference to United Kingdom, national organisation is well situated in
England which play essential role in development of healthy aspect and
factor that focus on people health and wellbeing.
 The study allows the organisation to make the comprehensive factor that
allow the user to take appropriate healthcare service from the wider range.
 Therefore, it also shows mandate function as per regulation of government
that allow the service user to take appropriate function that is relevant to
provide proper support to people of UK as well as show benefit by
implementing plan that create resilience.

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 The five key national organisation that deliver health and social care in the UK.
 NHS England.
 NHS improvement.
 Care Quality Commission.
 UK Health Security Agency.
 Health Education England.

Five key national
organization in UK
NHS England
NHS
improvement
Health
Education
England
UK Health
Security
Agency
Care Quality
Commission

Three pieces of legislation and policy that govern
delivery of healthcare setting in nations of the UK
 There is various legislation is well used in order to govern the delivery of health and social care in the UK.
These legislation and policy are usually formulated in order to create aspect that help to improve the health
among the society and social group. Within UK, a wide range of population is usually facing the issue which is
associated with inequality, discrimination and so on (Von Heimburg, and Ness, 2021). Therefore, such
circumstance is arising due to issue of low income, unemployment, lack of economic stability that affect people
to get a wise treatment or support from the healthcare. Therefore, such legislation is implemented with motive to
reduce such behaviour and complication that generate by healthcare setting. The policy and law which is
regulated within United Kingdom support individual right and promote wellbeing and resilience among the
population.

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 The three piece of legislation which is used in order to govern delivery of health and
social care within the nation of UK are:
 Health and Social Care Act 2012
 Care Act 2014
 Safeguarding vulnerable Group Act 2006 and the protection of Freedom Bills.

Three key regulation and
rule govern the distribution
of healthcare setting in UK
Health and Social Care Act 2012
Care Act 2014
Safeguarding vulnerable Group
Act 2006 and the protection of
Freedom Bills.

Mentioned organisation function and
contribution to national health and wellbeing
 The above mentioned organisation have range of function that is broader to specific. In this, the mentioned
organisation or firm used to contribute within national health and wellbeing especially within UK. In addition,
organisational function and contributed is mentioned below:
 NHS England.
 NHS improvement.
 Care Quality Commission.
 UK Health Security Agency.
 Health Education England.

Five
organization
NHS England
NHS
improvement
Care Quality
Commission
Health Education
England
UK Health
Security Agency
They provide guideline and
standard to population
regard with disease and
illness.
They work in collaboration
with NHS England to
improve health of
population.
They ensure quality and
safety of patient within
hospital.
They are coordinated for
education and inbuilt
training for health
awareness.
They are responsible for
England wide public health
protection.

Conclusion
 As per the above discussion, it is well analysing that the
national organisation plays vital role in the development of
quality of care with the legislation and function which
address the issue of public health.
 Therefore, legislation and policy is generally used in order to
implement the wide range of support and care to patient.

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