Law, Policy and Ethical Practice in Health and Social Care

Law, Policy and Ethical
Practice in Health and
Social Care

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1 Process of executive and the judiciary set the legal and policy landscape for health and
social care practitioners..........................................................................................................1
P2 Summarise key features of legislation, statutory guidance, codes of practice.................3
M1 Detail of how ethics informs health, care and support service practice..........................4
D1 Evaluation of own national system of government in relation to its effect on health, care
and support service.................................................................................................................5
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................5
Covered in PPT.......................................................................................................................5
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................5
P5 How specific national and international human rights law influence and inform the equal
and fair treatment of others in health, care and support services...........................................5
P6 Implementation of different and relevant legislation and policy in regard to safe and
healthy conduct in own practice.............................................................................................6
M3 Importance in informing rights and responsibilities of health, care or support service
practitioners............................................................................................................................6
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................7
P7 Describe the relationship between law, policy and ethical requirements in relation to a real
case scenario in a health or care setting..................................................................................7
P8 Explain the impact of relevant law and policy on the outcome of a real case scenario....8
M4 Explain in detail how chosen law, policy and ethical considerations might result in
different outcomes to the case scenario taking into account unwarranted variation..............9
D3 Currency and compliance with relevant legislation and national policy through ethical
practice...................................................................................................................................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10

REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Health and social care is one of the primary sector which is provided all the concern to
improve quality of life in each country. In the process of improving healthcare services UK is
termed as one of the most inspirational country where healthcare services are provided in
effective manner and to provide that services various laws and policies are formed. A nation
needs to make all possible actions by working together so that health and social care can be
maintained through following all the legal framework. Healthcare system in UK is designed in
such manner so that people form each background will be provided with required health facilities
to provide good life (Allotey and Reidpath, 2018). As health and social care industry affects
people at large so it is important to introduce law, policies and ethics to operate all the functions
in positive manner. In this relation various health and social care institutions takes part so that
more and more amount of individuals can be revived form critical conditions. In this project
report legal framework in health and social care practitioners operate with national and
organisational policy of fundamental importance. Laws in relation to ethical and professional
practice and application of laws is described in the project.
TASK 1
P1 Process of executive and the judiciary set the legal and policy landscape for health and social
care practitioners
Implication of various laws and set of legal policies are important to conduct various
clinical practices in lawful manner. Legislations, statutory guidance and code of practise supports
implementation of effective health and social care policies in equal manner all over UK.
Legislature is the governing body that leads to establishment of laws for governing health and
social care sector in UK. It is termed as law maker and considered as one of the branch of the
governing authorities in the country. Law making is a complex process so the legislative branch
of the government makes the law that are applicable in the land, the executive branch carries out
the law in the country and finally the judicial branch enforces or interprets the law. Combination
of these three terms helps in establishing the landscape for health and social care practitioner. As
they helps form establishment to execution and interpretation of the laws. Legal system helps to
support decisions in healthcare sector so that better results can be provided to patients. Formation
of laws and policies are affected through political scenario which is prevailing in UK (Bajpai,
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