Quality Standards in the Health Sector: Understanding, Monitoring, and Maintaining

Level 2 Certificate in Understanding Working in the Health Sector
Unit 5: Understand quality standards in the health sector
Assessment
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Please note that this Assessment document has 13 pages and is made up of 3 parts.
Name:
Part 1: Know the quality standards that apply to healthcare settings
This part will help you to evidence Learning Outcome 1: Know the quality standards that
apply to healthcare settings.
Learning objective Place in Assessment
1.1 Identify current quality standards applied within
healthcare settings
Question 1 Page 1
1.2 Outline the role of regulatory bodies in maintaining
quality standards
Question 2a&2b Page 2
1.3 Explain how workplace policies and procedures
contribute to maintaining quality standards
Question 3 Page 2
1.4 Give examples of the implications of not meeting
quality standards
Question 4 Page 2
1. In the table below, identify current quality standards that apply to your healthcare role
(or one you’re familiar with). You must provide at least one industry standard and one
organisational standard. [1.1]
The standards that are applicable for current healthcare role are as follows:
 Standard 1- Governance for Safety and Quality in Health Service Organisations
 Standard 2- Partnering with consumers
 Standard 3- Preventing and controlling healthcare associated infections
 Standard 4- Medication safety
 Standard 5- Patient identification and procedure matching
 Standard 6- Clinical Handover
 Standard 7- Blood and Blood Products
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 Standard 8- Preventing and Managing pressure injuries
 Standard 9- Recognising and Responding to clinical deterioration in acute healthcare
 Standard 10- Preventing falls and harm from falls
The Care Quality Commission national standards are also relevant to the concept:
 Be well informed and respected about their care
 Receive treatment, care, and support that meets their requirements
 Be protected and safe when in care
 Be monitored by healthcare staff who adorn and manifest necessary skills
 Expect the care providers to evaluate the quality of services that are delivered
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2a. Name at least two regulatory bodies relevant to healthcare settings. [1.2]
There are several regulatory bodies that are relevant to the healthcare settings such as:
Professional Standards Authority
Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)
Department of Health (DH)
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2b. Using the examples you came up with for 2a, outline how these regulatory bodies
contribute to maintaining quality standards. [1.2]
 Professional Standards Authority- It targets to attain the maximum standard
conceivable on behalf of healthcare facility consumers in the UK. It supervises
statutory organisations that control health and social care specialists and also
document their performance assessment to the parliament.
 Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)- It regulates the
usage of drugs and medical devices with the use of science and research for detecting
areas that need improvement.
 Department of Health (DH)- It progresses healthcare service in a determination to aid
persons live an improved quality of life for a prolonged duration. It also safeguards
that each patient obtains the care and treatment they want in a innocuous and secure
setting.
3. Using the table below, explain how relevant workplace policies and procedures contribute
to maintaining quality standards. [1.3]
Policy / procedure Who is affected? How does it maintain
quality standards?
Employee health safety
measures Medical Staff Preventing and controlling
healthcare associated
infections
Clinical handover Medical Staff
Clinical handover refers to
the transfer of professional
responsibility and
accountability for some or all
aspects of care for a patient,
or group of patients, to
another person or
professional group on a
temporary or permanent
basis.
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