(Doc) Law, Policy And Ethical Practice In Health And Social Care: Assignment
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Law, Policy And Ethical PracticeIn Health And Social Care
Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3PART 1............................................................................................................................................3Overview of case study..........................................................................................................3Key legislations & national policies, statutory guidance and codes of practice....................3Role of laws, policies and ethics in context of patient's safety & care...................................5Ways of workers to ensure compliance with relevant legislation and national policies throughethical practice........................................................................................................................6Impact of different equality legislation and equity while safeguarding individuals..............7Relationship between law, policy and ethics in relation to practices.....................................7Comparison between national & organisational policies against national professionalstandards.................................................................................................................................8PART 2............................................................................................................................................8Describe how the legislature, the executive and the judiciary set out the legal and policylandscape for Health and Social Care practitioners................................................................8Relationship between key legislation and national policy relevance to health & social carepractice...................................................................................................................................9Ethical practices including examples of ethical dilemmas to deal with by ensuringconsideration of ethical codes of practice..............................................................................9Examples of tasks conducted that meet national professional standards of safe and non-discriminatory practice.........................................................................................................10Importance of national system of government including relevant issues and improvements11Different legislation and policy in regard to being able to work safely and healthily in health& care settings......................................................................................................................12Human Rights Laws for England and the rest inform about equal and fair ways of treatment13Importance of relevant legislation and national policies while informing rights &responsibilities for practitioners working in the setting.......................................................13CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................14REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................15
INTRODUCTIONLaw, Policy and Ethical Practise is defined as the set of regulation which is required to befollowed by any of the individual. This rules and regulation are commenced by the authoriseddepartment of a ruling government. The most important things is that it is necessary to befollowed. Law, Policy and Ethical practise is important because it gives the guidelines throughwhich working condition becomes easy and suitable (Gagnon and Sabus, 2015). This report willbe based on Winterbourne case study of institutional abuse. It is one of the small village locatedin England, UK. The population of Winterbourne is below 20,000 and there are various problemwhich is going on at the moment. The topics that will be covered in this respective file will berelated to legislature, executive and the judiciary and there plans and policies for the bettermentof health and social care practitioner. Explanation will also relate to key legislation and nationalpolicy of direct relevance to health care. Also, there will be the interpretation to the law and keyethical and professional practice themes in health and social care. At the end, law and policieswill be applied as per the relevant practice setting. PART 1Overview of case studyIn context of Winterbourne case study, it has been analysed that patients having autism orlearning disability were abused by care providers which is not appropriate. It is observed thatdesired legislations and ethical principles are followed by staff as there is lack of training &development in care home. However, people get physically ad psychologically abused in thishospital who were suffered by learning disability and challenging behaviour. Employee gave onepatient cold shower as a punishment and left out her outside in near zero temperatures and laterpoured mouth wash in her eyes. Such terrible attempts are conducted by staff including pokedinto their eyes repeatedly due to which a patient tries to jump out of the window because ofcontinuous torture. Key legislations & national policies, statutory guidance and codes of practiceThe legislation, statutory guidance and codes of practices are very helpful to to conductvarious clinical practices in appropriate manner. These are supportive to make accurate decisionmaking about care facilities and facilitate to gain better outcomes for patients. In context ofselected case study based on Winterbourne, it has been analysed that patients suffering from
autism or learning disability get abused by practitioners which is an extreme level of torture forthem and it impacts negatively on condition of people. However, it is necessary for careprofessionals to follow desired legislations, statutory guidance and codes of practices in whichsome of them are given below. Legislations & national policiesCare Act 2014 – This can be described as an appropriate legal framework for careprofessionals and local health care authorities to protect people from risk of any kind of abuseand neglect (McLean and et. al., 2015). They should put efforts to evaluate the abusing incidentsof individuals and take effective actions to save them. In case of Winterbourne, the careprofessionals should follow guidance provided by framework of Care Act 2014 for reducingproblem of abuse of disable people at healthcare institution. They can report to legal authoritiesabout those practitioners who abuse and harm patients in any manner. Health & Social Act 2012 – This is known as a legal set of principle which provideinstructions to care practitioners in terms of providing secure healthcare services and treatment toneedy people. It consist the criterion of putting efforts to improve effectiveness and safety ofpatients while providing medical facilities for their well being (Martinez and et. al., 2015). Thecare professionals working in Winterbourne should focus oh this legislation and follow it to givesafe and appropriate care services to make them healthy. Codes of practiceThe codes of practices consist number of factors which are required to be focussed bymedial professionals at the time of providing treatment to patients for their well being. It consistdifferent types of people having mental or physical disorders and they must gain proper facilitiesby appropriate efforts of care practitioners in healthcare institutions. In context of Winterbournescandal, employees were not well trained and attempt abusive activities with individuals havingproblem of autism or learning disability. They should follow code of practices while providingcare services to people which are described here. It is necessary for care professionals to maintain respect and dignity of patients whiledealing with them. It is essential to follow equal and fair treatment principle and remain always non-discriminatory to provide desired medical facilities to every individual.
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