Health and Social Care Practices

This assignment delves into the critical aspects of health and social care practices. It examines legal frameworks like the Health and Safety at Work Act, emphasizing the provision of safe working environments. The importance of a robust no-gift policy in preventing bribery is also discussed. Additionally, the document highlights key themes in health and social care workforce planning and development, underscoring their significance for quality service delivery.

PRINCIPLES
OF
HSC
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Table of Contents
TASK 3.................................................................................................................................................3
3.1 Evaluating the impact of policy,legislation,regulation and code of practices on Residential
Care home policy and practices ......................................................................................................3
4.2 Evaluating own contribution to the development and implementation of health and social
care organisational policy................................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION....................................................................................................................................6
References............................................................................................................................................7
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INTRODUCTION
Health and social care is services that are accessible from health care professional. It is
leading sector at present that provide contribution to GDP, employment opportunity to wide range
of individual etc. There are wide range of theories and principles that can be considered by health
care practitioners while rendering services to patients etc (Hurst and Patterson, 2014). In this report,
different aspect of principles of HSC will be studied in context of provided case scenario. In this
report,learning will be shown about the impact of policy,legislation,regulation and code of practices
on Residential Care home policy and practice. Thereafter, own contribution to the development and
employment of health and social care organizational policy will be described.
TASK 3
3.1 Evaluating the impact of policy,legislation,regulation and code of practices on Residential Care
home policy and practices
From the provided case scenario,it has been identified that Residential Care home is visited
by the Care quality commission. In order to obtain the positive feedback on its working, it is
important for entity to check al the rules and regulation are properly followed within firm.
Thereafter,standards, regulation,law and code of practices can have direct impact on the working of
company. The term legislation can be refereed as laws and by-laws that are enacted by a legislature.
On the other hand policy refers to basic principles by which administrative authority is regulated.
Regulation can be defined as those rules or directive which are developed and maintained by
authority (Health and Safety at work act. 2015). Thereafter, code of practice is a practical guide to
attain the benchmarks of healthy and safety requirements as per the work health and safety act and
regulation. The main concern of these regulations is to prevent economic, social or psychological
harm in patients. These laws and policy ensure that Health care entity fulfil their responsibilities
towards the patients in best possible manner. The non compliance of these policy and regulation can
result into negative image of organization in market. Also, it can lead to legal consequence like
penalty, increased government interference etc. By following up all the regulation sincerely in
proper manner, Residential care home can gain the trust of its patients and develop loyalty among
them (Iliffe and et.al., 2005).
The health and safety act is important law that is strictly followed in Residential Care home.
It was laid down by the Parliament of the UK. The main purpose of this act is to encourage,
regulates and enforce health, safety and welfare within the UK. The concern of this act is to assure
proper health and safety of its employees, customers etc (Goodman, Banyard, Woulfe, Ash and
Mattern, 2015). Therefore, it is duty of employer to take proper actions to reduce risk exposure
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level for its staff members and users of service etc. This act further provide guidelines regarding the
health care practice which must be followed by every organization. Proper actions must be taken to
safeguard the health,safety and welfare of individual at work. Thereafter, various risk at work-place
must by identified so that action can be taken to reduce their impact. First and foremost, Residential
Care home must assure proper cleanliness within the hospital. The nurses, compounder and other
staff members stay in direct contact with several patients. Therefore, they are exposed to various
communicable diseases. In this respect, Residential Care home must check mask, gloves etc. are
provided to staff members. Thereafter, the premises of hospital must be cleaned daily with
disinfectants and germicides etc (Ham, Dixon and Brooke, 2012). In addition to this aspect, the
bedsheets, pillow cover, linens, towels etc. in hospitals wards etc. must be changed daily to prevent
further contamination among patients. Further, the chemicals used for the cleaning purpose include
dangerous substances and hence they must be stored and handled carefully. Thereafter, there must
be proper arrangement of disposal of wastages, destruction of used syringe etc. Further, proper
lightening must be there so as to prevent ill effect on the eyesight of patients. Other than this, the
management of Residential Care home must check that there is proper and clean sanitation facility
for staff and patients. Thereafter, clean and safe drinking water is also basic need for maintaining
proper health and safety of employees. Furthermore, the employer must check proper availability of
safety devices to prevent harm among employees and patients. In this respect, there must be fire
alarms, extinguishers, ladders etc. to handle various calamity (Lowes and Hulatt, eds., 2013). The
disaster management trainings can be provided to employees in every 6 months so that they can
handle the tough and demanding situations.
Furthermore, there are several benefits and limitation of following health and safety
practices. The main advantage of adhering this law is that it help entity in meeting legal obligation
which further avoid judicial consequence. Further, by mitigating the risk company can avoid
accidents and save cost of compensation that is provided to employees in this case. In addition to
this aspect, it improves the ability of organization to provide clean and safe environment for
customers and employees. Thus, facilitate in developing positive image of entity in market.
Thereafter, failure in follow up of health and safety act results into accidents due to which it may
lose its loyal employees and customer (Munn-Giddings and Winter, 2013). Further, the chances of
prosecution and expensive compensation claims can be minimized by adhering health and safety
act. Due to safe and healthy workplace, company can reduce the absenteeism among employee due
to sickness etc. Further, employees efficiency and quality of work can be improved by rendering
healthy workplace. However,there are certain limitation of this act that have direct consequence on
the working or health acre entity. first and foremost, this act at present is more dependent on use of
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expert health workers and techniques which involve significant amount of cost. Residential Care
home is required to appoint experts within housekeeping department to assure cleanliness within
entity. The act have narrow view with regards to health as it does not encourage good health. The
main concern of this act is on rendering healthy conditions but ignore factors that caused it. Such as
it does not suggest people to have healthy diet, proper sleep,do exercise etc.
4.2 Evaluating own contribution to the development and implementation of health and social care
organisational policy.
From the in-depth and critical analysis of own work I have come to various conclusions. It
can be stated that I have taken part in execution of health care policy so that ineffectiveness of work
performance can be reinforced in right manner. I have also emphasised on activities that permit to
ensure that communication among employees must be in proper manner. Response and notifications
has been furnished to staff members so that proper can be overcome in appropriate manner. Along
with this, I have also taken part in day-to-day inspection so that workplace issues can be overcome.
This will also trim down the abuse of policies and amend general performance of entity.
The policy means plan of actions adopted or proposed by a company or person. It can be
also defined as statement of intention that is further employed as procedure or protocol. It further
help in guiding decision making and attain logical results. Such as, there is Non gift policy. As per
this policy the employees of the organization are not permitted to accept the gifts from present or
prospective suppliers, customers, distributors , rivals etc. The main concern of this act is to prevent
bribery etc. This policy laid down comprehensive ban on gift from the suppliers and distributors of
pharmaceutical and other medical equipments etc (No Gift Giving Policy. 2016.). However,flowers
or chocolates can be accepted from patients if they are just to express the gratitude towards
employees good work. Thereafter, cash , cheque, valuable items, holiday package and gift voucher
etc. are strictly not allowed. In order to implement this policy, first of all discussion is done among
top executives where problems is identified. Such as, increase incident of bribery among employees
in name of gifts. Further, policy agenda is determined which further guide in formulation of policy.
Thereafter, the consequence of violating the policy and reason for implementing it are identified.
Further, implementation of policy can be done with the support of organizational members. In this
respect,the opinions of employees can be identified etc (Oram, Trevillion, Feder and Howard,
2013). Thereafter, formal communication after the implementation of policy is done. In this respect,
Residential Care Home can use emails, official website and formal meeting to communicate the
new plan of action of “No Gift Policy” is explained to them. In addition to this, proper follow up
must be obtained to assure policy is not violated by members.
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CONCLUSION
From the above report, it can be concluded that health and care sector play important role in
current scenario. In order to assure, effective and unrestricted operations there are various laws and
regulations that must be followed. The health and safety act assure that proper working conditions is
provided to all the employees. Thereafter, No gift policy is important for minimizing the act of
bribery etc.
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No Gift Giving Policy. 2016. [Online]. Available through: <http://www.partners.org/about/vendor-
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