Law, Ethics and Values in Healthcare: A Critical Analysis of Blessing's Case Study

Scenario-C

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Scenario-c........................................................................................................................................3
Critically analysing the themes & discussions................................................................................3
Theme 1 Law: Safeguarding........................................................................................................3
Theme 2 Ethics: Autonomy.........................................................................................................5
Theme 3 Values: Confidentiality.................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Health and social care are interlinked with each other. The healthcare services are just not
limited to ensuring the treatment to the patients. Within this, the social and legal aspects have to
be performed to ensure the safety and care of the client (Howe and et.al., 2018). This essay will
make a focus on the major three issues that have been found from the blessing's case study. The
three issues are concerned with the law, ethics and values. Blessing is a 23 years old girl.
Currently, she is admitted to the hospital due to profuse bleeding. The home nation of the
blessing is the Gambia. The essay will highlight the major issues that are important to understand
the social, legal and ethical perspectives in healthcare.
MAIN BODY
Scenario-c
 Blessing's who is 23 years old girl has been admitted into the hospital due to profuse
bleeding.
 The major themes and issues that have been highlighted from the scenario are law, ethics
and values.
 Law refers to the rules and regulations that have been enforced by the government to
establish a fair environment (Liu and Li, 2020). Ethics refers to the set of morals that
determines the right and wrong act performed by humans and values have been
determined as the faith of the individual that leads to motivating another individual.
 The legislation on these three themes of the scenario are Safeguarding and Medical male
practices lawsuits for the law theme (Nevill and Hills, 2021). Autonomy and Informed
consent legislation concerning the ethical theme. And Medical confidentiality for the
value theme.
Critically analysing the themes & discussions
Theme 1 Law: Safeguarding
Law refers to the system that has been determined by the government and has to be
followed by every citizen to ensure a safe environment in society. Safeguarding refers to the
protection of the individual's health and human rights from the abusing, harm and negligence
(Buka and Atkinson, 2021).