Principles of Health and Social Care Practice: A Comprehensive Guide

PRINCIPLES OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE PRACTICE

Table of Contents
Introduction...................................................................................................................................2
LO1.................................................................................................................................................3
1.1 Explain how principles of support are applied to ensure that individuals are cared for in
health and social care practice.................................................................................................. 3
1.2 Outline the procedure for protecting clients, patients, and colleagues from harm.............5
1.3 Analysis of the benefit of following a person-centred approach with users of health and
social care services.....................................................................................................................7
1.4 Explain ethical dilemmas and conflict that may arise when providing care, support and
protection to users of health and social care services...............................................................9
LO2............................................................................................................................................... 11
2.1 Explain the implementation of policies, legislation, regulations and codes of practice that
are relevant to own work in health and social care.................................................................11
2.2 Explain how local policies and procedures can be developed in accordance with national
and policy requirements..........................................................................................................13
2.3 Evaluate the impact of policy, legislation, regulation, and codes of practice on
organizational policy and practice...........................................................................................14
LO3............................................................................................................................................... 15
3.1 Explain the theories that underpin health and social care practice...................................15
3.2 Analyze how social processes impact on users of health and social care services.............16
3.3 Evaluate the effectiveness of inter-professional working..................................................17
LO4............................................................................................................................................... 19
4.1 Explain own role, responsibilities, accountabilities and duties in the context of working
with those within and outside the health and social care workplace......................................19
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4.2 Evaluate own contribution to the development and implementation of health and social
care organizational policy........................................................................................................20
4.3 Make recommendations to develop own contributions to meeting good practice
requirements........................................................................................................................... 21
Conclusion................................................................................................................................... 22
References................................................................................................................................... 23
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Introduction
The health and social care department has been divided into many parts and segments in order
to provide better treatment to the patients and to satisfy their needs. All these segments have a
common philosophy and aim of caring the patients and providing them health facilities in the
best way. The government has made some legislation and laws in order to deal with the harm
and abuse of the people related to the health and social care department. This legislation and
laws are known as the principles of health and social care. Here, a case study of Fleetwood Hall
Home has been taken into consideration which is care home and providing 24-hour residential
care for the older people. The residents of this home can take part in various organized
activities like the birthday parties, seasonal events, gardening clubs and taking a walk to the
seafront. Those residents who are green-fingered can enjoy the gardens of the Hall Home and a
perfect environment is also creating for treating the patients.
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LO1
1.1 Explain how principles of support are applied to ensure that individuals
are cared for in health and social care practice
Fleetwood hall home is proving health and social care services to different people, and there
are certain principles of support that will ensure that the individuals care properly at the home.
For this, various rules and regulations are followed by the management staff of the home in
order to ensure the effective working of their employees. Following are some of the principle of
support at the home which is associated with the changing environment which is for the benefit
of the people and also helpful for them to achieve their goals (Glasby, 2017):
 The Fleetwood hall home is promoting effective communication and believes in building
a good relationship with the patients and the employees.
 The home is also promoting anti-discriminatory practices that are the reason of
environmental conflicts in some of the other health and social care groups.
 The patient’s information is secured from the outsiders; hence the home is also
marinating confidentiality of patient’s information.
 The Fleetwood hall home is in support and also promoting the rights of individuals like
empowerment, safety, independence and right to choose.
Apart from all this, the nursing home also believes in working with the person-centred
approaches in which all the needs and demands of the patients are served at the highest
priority as he/she is the only one who is placed at the centre. All these principles are helpful in
meeting the objectives of the Fleetwood hall home and also help it to make a benchmark.
There are various laws, like the Equality Act 2010 and Anti-discrimination Act 1998 is the one
that is adopted by the home to promote and support the rights of the individual. All these acts
are helpful for both the services users and the caretakers of the home.
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The home is also providing an interactive environment to the individuals so that they can share
their problems with each other. The one who has an issue, communicate the problem with the
other individuals in the form of a message and then a response is provided to them back in the
form of a feedback (Glasby, 2017). New technologies are also helpful in making the individuals
able to make their own practice charters.
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