Politics & Policy of Healthcare

This document explores the politics and policy of healthcare, focusing on safeguarding policy and its importance in protecting children. It discusses the background of the policy, its public health implications, and the supporters of the policy. The document also addresses contentious issues and the impact of the policy on healthcare workers and the overall population.

Politics & Policy of
Healthcare

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
BACKGROUND.............................................................................................................................3
SAFEGUARDING POLICY...........................................................................................................4
Description of policy...................................................................................................................4
Why it is a public health issue and who supports the policy......................................................4
Contentious issues and Impact of the policy...............................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Presently, children also have the right to get protected from any sort of harm and for this,
several guidelines are developed and set out for them in order to keep them safe and respond
towards the child protection concerns (Mason and et. al., 2020). For this, safeguarding policy is
undertaken as it is related with effectively protecting young people and children and also
supported by governance, health and safety and so on. Safeguarding policy depict the detailed
guidelines and instructions in order to support safeguarding policy statement and also related
with safety of children and their well-being. In regard of this, report tends to cover the
background information regarding the policy and concerning government which is related with
it, provide definition of prominent terms and properly describe the policy clearly like sources,
public health issue, who support the policy, its impact, role and so on.
BACKGROUND
Safeguarding policy is concerned with taking prominent steps in terms of preventing
harm from any sort of exploitation, abuse, harassment and many more for protecting them from
any harm by responding effectively. Safeguarding policy undertake abuse of child or young
individuals from the deliberate and abusive act of treatment from harming or likely to break the
safety of young person regarding their growth and development. Moreover, the young person
also tends to constitute abusive act by defining the failing to offer or secure the child from their
basic needs of well-being and physical safety. Away with this, the purpose of this policy is to set
out the suitable principles from all the staff members to work in NHS regarding the improvement
for complying for the safeguarding of children and protecting them from the risk of harm.
Apart from this, the safeguarding policy is prominently supported and opted by The
Green Party of England and Wales in March 2019 with the objective of regular viewing for the
best practice. The green political party is committed towards the suitable development of the
culture of party and make members feel empowered in order to report for having the
safeguarding concern. Safeguarding policy tends to opt suitable approach for planning the
overall process and also required to protect children from the potential of harming and resulting
from their contact with the part of organisation (Berman, 2019). In regard of this, The Green
Political party tends to have several responsibilities undertaking safeguarding policy which are
embedded at each and every level of Green party which include:

 Green party members are responsible for abiding the commitment of policy and need
immediate action of report regarding the welfare of children.
 The members of green party is responsible for making sure about the policy and also
tends to maintain suitable boundaries for children and adults at their own risk for the
local party and how they leads to take action (Greer and et. al., 2020).
SAFEGUARDING POLICY
Description of policy
Safeguarding policy is concerned with the risk of harm regardless from gender, age,
religion and so on. The objective of this policy is to prevent children from impairment of health
and development, maltreatment, make sure their growing situations and also enable them to have
best and possible outcomes. The concept of this policy tends to reach for the protection of child
to incorporate the extra objectives to prevent the suitable harm of children regarding their
development and health by making sure their consistent growth undertaking the provision of
effective care and safety (Clinton and Sances, 2018). For this, the volunteers of The green
political party need to be concern regarding the anything that occur in the life of child and so on.
Moreover, there are various ways to write regarding the safeguarding or the protection of child
by undertaking the potential risk of child, how someone raise the concern and the usefulness of
writing the statement of policy. For this, the role of health visitors is to offer suitable advice and
support children by making suitable decisions the impact their future and well-being. They tends
to help in eliminating health inequalities by offering suitable services to children who really need
help (Knickman and Elbel, 2019). They are also tends to involve in identifying the risk factors
for child and take suitable decision if required.
Why it is a public health issue and who supports the policy
In this, the health visitors are suitably involved in offering prominent support to children
and also depict the impact of health visiting commissioning policy results for the overall
development of health of children undertaking the family and motivate healthy lifestyle of young
children. Moreover, the major problem of policy is that the health workers tends to neglect the
maximum number of adults and young individuals as they think that they are specially assisted in
order to treat young individuals only. For this, the major concern of the policy is that people
tends to misuse the policy by filing wrong complaints and maximum number of people also does

not feel safe while roaming at night and also fails to deliver proper treatment to the targeted
individuals. Hence, the policy tends to undertake suitable factors for enhancing health and
wellness of community considering the immunisations, screening and overall growth and
development of the young children (Rushefsky, 2019). They also tends to put emphasis on
advertising health and effective wellness of the overall population and spreading awareness
regarding the health among individuals.
Moreover, the policy is also supported by the Public Health England and their roles is to
enhance and safeguard the overall population, their health and well-being in order to eliminate
health inequalities. It is also useful to the local authorities of the country in terms of
commissioning for the health visitors and nursing services that leads to deliver suitable care of
young children (Béland, Rocco and Waddan, 2020). Along with this, healthy child programme
tends to offer effective framework regarding the support of health visitors. For this, the overall
objective is to help people in order to make effective and strong bond with their children and also
leads to support in order to make their children safe, healthy with the objective of protecting
them from any sort of misshapen. In regard of this, local authorities also tends to plays an
important role in order to offer suitable funds for making sure effective protection and well-being
of individuals.
Contentious issues and Impact of the policy
Apart from considering the benefits of policy, it also undertake some issues which are
required in terms of promoting health and overall wellness within the population of the nation. In
this, the staffing of healthcare workers and visitors tends to become the major concern of the
policy (Ranade, 2018). For this, it depict the suitable need of skilled and trained individuals who
tends to deliver better and effective care to the young children and offer effective and appropriate
advice to their parents undertaking the health. They also leads to struggle in order to retain
permanent skilled workforce and their another issue is that they tends to face difficulties within
the documenting of data. Apart from this, most of the times the major concern for the nurses is to
take effective care of individuals as currently the population is increasing effectively and it is
complicated to maintain prominent records suitably (Stewart and et. al., 2020). Furthermore,
healthcare workers are also included in treating the population of young children and also
overlook their treatment as they are need to be effectively trained and also tends to deliver

effective care to the overall public. Hence, the role of policy within the health staff is that they
tends to become more skilled at the time of offering treatment to children and safeguarding them.
CONCLUSION
Therefore, by undertaking the overall report it is identified that the policies and polities
plays an important role to make sure the safety and protection of children. For this, the policies
and politics in public health become the major concern to maintain and enhance the public health
services which undertake the overall sector of society. Hence, these policies are useful in order to
assess the requirements of public and useful in developing services for the well-being of society.
Therefore, they also tends to put emphasis on the suitable sectors of public and execute their
services in terms of safeguarding and protecting the well-being of people.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Béland, D., Rocco, P. and Waddan, A., 2020. The Affordable Care Act in the States: Fragmented
Politics, Unstable Policy.Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law.
Berman, D.R., 2019.Local government and the states: Autonomy, politics, and policy. Routledge.
Clinton, J.D. and Sances, M.W., 2018. The politics of policy: the initial mass political effects of
Medicaid expansion in the states.American Political Science Review,112(1), pp.167-185.
Greer, S.L and et. al., 2020. The comparative politics of COVID-19: The need to understand
government responses.Global public health,15(9), pp.1413-1416.
Knickman, J.R. and Elbel, B. eds., 2019.Jonas and Kovner's Health Care Delivery in the United
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Mason, D.J and et. al.,2020.Policy & Politics in Nursing and Health Care-E-Book. Elsevier
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Ranade, W., 2018.Markets and health care: a comparative analysis. Routledge.
Rushefsky, M., 2019. Healthcare Politics and Policy in America.
Stewart, E and et. al., 2020. Transforming health care: the policy and politics of service
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