Law, Policy and Ethical Practice in Health and Social Care

LAW, POLICY AND ETHICAL PRACTICE IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE
Given Scenario: It is given that Mid-Staffordshire NHS Trust was unable to
provide the service to the patient. The default was found when it was seen that 2500
patient died just because of the standard of care which they didn't provide to the patient
and this incident took place between 2005-2008. While cross verification had taken the
place, it was found that health practitioner had done lots of compromises with the health
of patient.
Legislation to Healthcare: It is said that legislation has the main importance in
each and every department because it will decide that how any work is required to be
done. In simple term, Legislation is set of law which are enforced as per the requirement
of situation and it is compulsory that no one is allowed to breach the term and condition
of law as defaulter has to face various kinds of punishment in this situation. Legislation
have divided into many section where it is written that which department will commence
law what kind of law (Banks, 2016). In present scenario, it is important for Legislation to
look after all the section through which chances of default will be reduced in future. Some
of the act which has been introduced for the benefits of patient are National Health
Service Act, 2006, medical act 1858 etc. and many more. In context of the case, it can be
understood that there was the default Mid-Staffordshire NHS Trust because they were the
one who didn't tried to provide the best services to the patient and because of that many of
the patient have to lost their life. After seeing this incident, it is important that legislation
should commence those form of law due to which it will easy to find the defaulter person
due to whom anyone have to suffer from their life. It is very crucial for practitioner to
understand the language of law because they are required to work as per the act. Here,
role of government will be very important because they have to understand in detail that
there are lots of area where still new law should be commenced and that must be
commenced for practitioner. They must try to introduce those program in healthcare
centre from which chances of default will be reduced (Bywaters and et. al., 2015).
Government of UK need to amend some of laws which are related with the
healthcare and those must be done specially in medical act 1858 because there are lots of
instances where due to patient has to suffer from various kind of problem and reason
behind that is level of manufacturing in medicine. Some of those strict law should be
commenced where practitioner should be made liable for the issues which come across
them. In the above case, it was found that NHS didn't tried to treat well to their patient and
this problem continues for near around 3 years so it is important for government to check
that what are the weak points due to which healthcare centre are unable to provide the best
services to their patient. Changes can be done but it will be more effective if they are done
only after the proper research because it helps to produce more effective results in future.
The incidence which had been occurred by the side of NHS was one of those lesson for
UK government which made them aware regarding the health of patient and because of
that change were done in Human Rights Act, 1998 also where it is clearly written then
everyone has the equal rights when it comes to obtain the health of patient. Also,
government is always try to come up new which are beneficial for every patient.
Executive on Healthcare: They are the persons who take care of each and
everything which is required in the premises of hospital so it can be understood that it will
be very to manage every single thing within the organisation (Congress, 2017). It should
be mandatory that every responsibility should be given to executive and even if any kind
of default is done then it is necessary that actions should be taken against that respective
executive. In context of the case, it was found that there was no one who was ready to
take the responsibilities for the death of 2500 patient so by looking at this problem
government had done lots of changes in their law system which is effective for the better
results.