Law, Policy, and Ethical Practice in HSC

LAW, POLICY & ETHICAL
PRACTICE IN HSC

INTRODUCTION
Law, policies and ethical practises are important in health and social care. these laws,
policies and ethical practises helps in ensuring role of healthcare professionals. It also helps in
setting general action plan that can be used to guide fundamental guidelines and outcomes
desired for making proper and ethical decisions. The main purpose of these Law, policies and
ethical practises is to communicate both employees and patients the desired outcomes required
by the organization, maintaining civil rights of both employees and patients. This assignment
will lay emphasis on Legislation, policy and ethical practises in health and social care.
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P1 Legislature, the executive and the judiciary set the legal and policy
Legislature, judiciary and executive set the policies and legal acts for HSC practitioners.
These policies are design by the legal authorities of country (Beckley, 2018). In these policies
are includes such as safety, because in HSC practitioners need to be performed task safety and
also be well-being with the patient of the society. The another policy is competence, according to
this HSC practitioners will trained by the proper training and have complete knowledge to
performing their health and social acre task Colaco and et.al., 2018). In this type of policies and
legal law scientific and ethical conduct, integrity, quality and transparency, protocols are also set
by the legislation, judiciary and the execution for the safety of the patient of the country.
P2 Features of legislation, statutory guidance, codes of practice, and national and organizational
policy
There are several features of legislation, statutory guidance, codes of practices, national
and organizations policies that is managed all the medical activities, providing the specific and
right guidance about the policies and laws that is followed by the HSC practitioners (Kuek,
Singh and San Tay, 2019). Codes of practices also have some features such as respect the people,
respect all the law and regulation of health and social care, show the respect for the environment
and natural resources etc. The national and organizational also have some features that provider
detail about the roles and norms of the nation and give the detail about organization environment,
culture of the organization environment etc. Theses are the features of all of these factors which
all are very important in the HSC sectors. Because those features provide them guidance to
perform their task (Colaco and et.al., 2018).
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