Legal and Ethical Issues of Accountability in Health and Social Care Practice

Legal and ethical
issues accountability

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION 3
TASK 3
CONCLUSION 7
REFERENCES 8

INTRODUCTION
Accountability is most essential issue that arise in health and social care practice.
Accountability mainly refer as all types of procedure and process in which one individual as to
take responsibility of health and social care practice. In simple words accountability refers as
being responsible of own actions or practice in respect health and social care practice. Health and
social care professional bodies have to be more accountable as per laws and guidelines of
medical practices. Not even professional bodies, patient, self, employer and professional
regulators are accountable for uplifting health care practices. This report aims towards
accountability of health and social care practitioners. It combines several areas such as self,
patients, employer, and professional regulator and their accountability in terms of health and
social care workers. Apart from this, it included importance of accurate record keeping of heath
care.
TASK
The concept of accountability is much wide in respect of health and social care practitioners.
They deliver and ensure quality of patient life with the help of closely monitor through
professional medical care. Health and social care practitioner aids in supporting physical and
psychosocial wellbeing of their patient and society. It will leads towards of overall society
welfare (Agarwal, R. and et.al., 2020). The accountability mainly refers as responsibility or
obligation that health and social care practitioner have to involve in health practices while
treating any patient. They are completely responsible of someone life and health issues.
Accountability of healthy and social care practitioners combines of four types of accountability
that is autonomy, beneficence, non maleficence and justice. Autonomy accountability combines
of rights of patient in order to maintain full control over body (Barnes, 2017). Practitioner of
health care will suggest in choice of patient so that no violation will take place in field of medical
area. Best interest of patients is mainly concern with health care practitioner. It has accountable
for independent personal values and beliefs. Beneficence accountability mainly concern with
health care workers as they are responsible to deliver benefit of patient from easy to worst
situation. All procedure in practice of treatment must focus towards improving good health of
patient. To facilitate this type of accountability there must be appropriate knowledge and skill