Laws and Policies in Health and Social Care

INTRODUCTION
Mid Staffordshire NHS trust was created in 1993, which was awarded as NHS foundation
trust status on 1st February 2008. Staffordshire NHS foundation trust is being managed by 2
hospital Stafford hospital and Cannock Chase hospital. In this report the failure of Staffordshire
hospital has been discussed which has resulted in large number of deaths. The laws and policy,
guidance, codes and practices of the judiciary, legislature and executive have been discussed.
There has been a comparison of national and organizational policy on the key legislation and
national policy of health and social care practices.
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Modern health care policy focus their attention to protect and promote the health of the
individuals and the community. These objective can be fulfilled by Staffordshire NHS
foundation trust respecting the human right. The government has separated the power into three
branches which are the legislative, an executive and the judiciary. The legislature is the most
suited branch for developing health policy as the legislature is thought to be impartial and
publicly accountable(Nelson and Staggers, 2016). Legislature are appropriate policy makers
because they have experience, and they can also collect information from a wide variety of
source, so the final decision in all the health and social care are made by the legislature. On the
other hand judiciary is considered to be the least ideal forum for the development of any health
and social care policies. This is because the judges rarely receive education in health and social
care issue as they are usually good at legal skills. Despite all these the courts have been
instrumental in developing several; important health care policies. These policies include the
field of mental health policy that shows judicial leadership followed by legislative enactment.
Then the executive branch of the government helps almost in the same way as legislature to
bring health and social care policies formation. The executive branch have many agencies to deal
with health and social policies and the staff working here are not connected with any political
parties and have brings knowledge and expertise of health care to form appropriate policies, and
so there decision can be trusted to go on with.