Legal Framework in Health and Social Care Practice

Essay

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................3
P1. Summarize key features of the different levels of law and policy........................................3
P2. Describing the relationship between ethics and legislation in relation to the work of health
and social care practitioners.........................................................................................................4
P3 Describing the relationship between key legislation and national policy, of direct
relevance to health and social care practice................................................................................5
P4 Comparing national and organizational policy against national professional standard in
terms of their impact on health and social care practice..............................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7
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INTRODUCTION
A legal framework is a set of rules and regulations in order to deal with the problems and
issues which needs to be clarified in definite manner for the betterment of an individual person.
In the health and social care industry, laws and legislation are the important factors which needs
to be considered by the practitioners to work in ethical manner. Accordingly, in this current
report it will describe the legal framework within health and social care practitioner and
describes the relationship between the ethics and laws in regard with healthcare practitioner
(Green and et.al., 2019). Moreover, it will also put focus over the legislation, national and
organizational policy of fundamental importance along with relationship between the key
legislations and national policy and direct relevance to health and social care. Furthermore, the
report will illustrate the comparison between the national and organizational policy against the
national professional standards and also explain the impact on health and social care practice.
MAIN BODY
P1. Summarize key features of the different levels of law and policy
The term law simply defines as justice and morality which needs in essential manner to
manage the public affairs and legislature in its measures. Laws are set of standards and
procedures that must be followed by the society so that an individual should have justice in
regard with any false activity. On another side, policy term is the outline of what government do
to achieve the better results for the society as a whole. Policies are made to protect the fair
activities and can achieve the goals in order to provide appropriate safety to the public and
society (Bogomolova and et.al., 2019). Thus, law is administrated through the judiciary whereas
policy is made by the government bodies for the betterment and welfare of the society. Edwin
Chadwick was an English social former who is known for his leadership in reformulating the
poor laws in England and instituting major reforms in public health. His main goal is to improve
the former laws related to the health of the public and can finely improvise them for the
betterment of the society. A bill is a kind of proposal for a new law to change the existing law
which is presented for debate before the parliament meetings. For passing the bill it is important
for to know the three branches of government who are executive, legislative and judiciary.
Accordingly, the legislative government make laws whereas executive carries out the laws
moreover judicial government is responsible for evaluation of the laws from which the
appropriate decision can be taken.
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