Law, Policy and Ethical Practice in Health & Social Care

This presentation focuses on the law, policy, and ethical practice in health and social care, specifically at Winterbourne View. It summarizes legislation, national policies, organizational policies, statutory guidance, and codes of practice in healthcare. It explores the relationship between law, policy, and ethics at Winterbourne View and analyzes the shortfalls in patient's safety and care related to law, policy, and ethics. It also critically reviews how workers could have ensured legal compliance through ethical practice. Additionally, it compares national and organizational policies and discusses the impact of equality legislation and equality on safeguarding individuals at Winterbourne View.

Law, Policy and Ethical
Practice in Health & Social
Care

Summarizing legislation and national policies, organizational policies,
statutory
guidance and codes of practice could have been done at Winterbourne
• Legislation and National policies
• Organizational Policies

Cont.
• Statutory Guidance
• Codes of practice

Tasks carried out in healthcare meeting national professional
standards of safe and non discriminatory
practice
• The healthcare should enhance anti-discriminatory practice in
the premises and safeguard patients' interests in effective
manner.
• The tasks carried out in meeting professional standards are
respect people right to confidentiality.
• Moreover, they should ill-treated while providing services.
• Ensuring up to date compliance with healthcare standards
while treating patients.
• I personally feel that interests of persons should be
safeguarded.
• Non-discriminatory practice should be followed and strive to
improve healthcare quality, care and support to service users
for ensuring maximum satisfaction.

Cont.
• Workers should carry out competence-based training in agreed
ways of working in effective manner.
• On the other hand, communicate to immediate senior in
respect to any difficulty for immediate resolving.
• Maintaining clear and accurate records of healthcare for
checking person's conditions.
• Another task should be carried at healthcare to recognise and
work in collaboration to ensure high quality delivery of
services to people in the best manner possible.
• Always acting in best interests of service users and respecting
their dignity.

Relationship between law, policy and ethics relating
to practice at Winterbourne
• The laws are implemented by the authorities which regulates
healthcare.
• Ethics in relation to healthcare is a practical application of
deploying moral standards which are meant for benefiting
patient.
• The institutional adult abuse was being occurred at
Winterbourne where patients were being ill-treated having
disabilities.
• It should have been adhered to certain ethical standards and
code of conduct govern by healthcare authorities of the UK.
• Negligence and vulnerable practices were being followed and
service users were ill-treated by them.

Cont.
• Appropriate relationship should have been maintained by
Winterbourne so as to have everlasting relationship and trust
among people in effective manner.
• On the other hand, healthcare policy and ethics and laws
should be abide by healthcare as they are all interrelated to
practices.
• This should be followed by so that adequate relationship must
be maintained and operational activities may not be ceased in
any manner.
• Thus, it can be said that Winterbourne should have followed
all ethics, policy and laws for safeguarding interests of people.

Shortfalls in patient’s safety and care were related to law, policy and
ethics
• Individual failings
• Adult culture abuse
• Long-term basis in hospital

Cont.
• Accountability issue
• Cruel, callous and degrading behavior

Policies not adhered at Winterbourne View
• No responsibility of staff
• Severely assaulted

Cont.
• Not adhered to policies
• No timely and appropriate response

Critical review of how workers would have ensured legal
compliance through ethical practice
• The ethical concern in the care home is concerned with
prompting and upholding the privacy, dignity, health, welling
and rights of the individuals.
• The workers of Winterbourne View must abide with this
ethical policies of the health care sectors, along with
maintaining the professional values and quality to render
effective support serveries to patients.
• The ethical conduct in the health care sectors establishes the
fact all the support staff must act in the best interest of their
patients.

Cont.
• However, the workers in the care home did just opposite of
what the legal regulations demand.
• The ethical practice guides the behaviours of a person towards
abiding with all the laws and policies and act to provide
relevant care and support services as per the need.
• The workers of Winterbourne View could have engaged in
ethical practises and that would have lead their behaviours in
rights direction which is directly linked with compliance with
all legal and policy of the care home.
• With ethical conducts the support staff must had a feeling to
abide with al rules and regulations.

Comparison of National and organizational policies
National and organisational policies:
• The police of the care home were vague and it did
not comply with them either, completely.
• The organisation kept high number of patients more
than the actual capacity.
• Moreover, the safeguarding and ethical polices were
also not sounds as support staff did not care to abide
by the same.
• The provision of the equality act were not complied
with either.

Cont.
National professional Standards:
• The health and Social care (HAC) standard are important for social
and health care workers in all the parts of UK.
• The professional are required to abide with ethical and legal duty in
exercising the level of care, diligence and skills prescribes in code of
practice in the HSC.
• The standards in HAS defines that the heath and care practitioners
must protect privacy of patients along with giving them full
inflammation about truth related with the health and condition so
that they can make informed decision.
• They must act ethical and treat every person without any
discriminating.
• The professional in care sectors must fully practice their
professional skills in treating the patients

Impact of Equality legislation and Equality has on
safeguarding the individual at Winterbouurne View
• The Equality Act, 2010, defines the fundamental rights given
to each and every individual of the nation without any
discriminator or privilege.
• The same act is applicable all the patients and individuals in
Winterbourne View.
• The act provides the clauses and polices of equal treatment of
all the individual without any discrimination on the basis of
race, caste, religion, physical or mental condition, sexual
orientation, material status etc.
• With effective implication of this act in Winterbourne View the
rights and interest all the patients have been safeguard.

Cont.
• All the patients must have received a care and support
services without any lag.
• The individuates in the care home must have been
protected with what they are adhered by the law, as all
them were not in condition fight for their rights.
• If they would have knows, were not been ill-treated by
the support staff in such a heinous way.
• Equity is right of every person in the UK and safeguard
the interest of every citizen against any discrimination
and abuse.

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