Legal and Ethical Issues in Accountability in Health and Social Care

Legal and Ethical Issues
Accountability

Table of Content.
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Accountability is the state of duty where one's action are need to be reliable. It is mainly
the action to be answerable while performing the actions and providing the proper evidence for
the actions taken. While providing care accountability is important as it consists of different
procedures and process that need to be evaluated to analyse the amount of effective care received
by patient, professor or employer. Accountability is required to build the relationship between
the provider and the individual who requires special care. These actions provide the organization
to provide advanced quality care and it also alters the abuse of the resources that might effect the
condition. In this report will elaborate the role of accountability in social and health care, its need
and demand. Further will also analyze the importance of accountability in providing care to the
population and the patients. Additionally, this essay report will supply the role of accountability
of health and social care providers in patient, individuals, overall populations, the workforce and
the professional regulators (Cornelese, 2020).
MAIN BODY
Accountability in health and social care symbolizes about different effective measures
taken by physicians to account the discipline while performing the actions. Accountability play
an important role within health and social care organization where it hold employees accountable
and provides proper information about the process and procedure that are justified by one party
and taking about responsibility for every activities. This is the one that can improve people to
perform their health and care services in a more appropriate way that can be effective and can
improve their practice and performance in more better way. Accountability includes high impact
on delivery of care services and improve their operations continuously. It can also help to
improve patient and doctor trust and enable the organization to deliver quality care and reduces
the misuse of resources (Teno and et. al., 2018).
Accountability refers to the responsibility for failure and success that can experience the
consequences. This can create high impact on health and social care service organization that can
help to improve their health care services and enable them to deliver quality care services for
patients improved health. It can also help to pay attention to each and every operation that can
help and impact health care services (Bonde and et. al., 2018). It may also include improving
care service and practices and help other healthcare professional to get involved and support the
care procedure. It can also include improving care practices along with their efficiency and
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