Principles of Health & Social Care

Principles of Health &
Social Care

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................4
1.1 Principles of support that are applied to Denis in Health and social care.............................4
1.3 Benefits of person centred approach for Denis.....................................................................5
3.2 Social processes such as isolation and exclusion, marginalisation impact on patients.........6
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................6
1.2 Outline the procedures for protecting clients, patients, and colleagues from harm..............6
TASK 3 ...........................................................................................................................................7
1.4 Ethical dilemmas and conflict that may arise when providing care, support and protection
to users........................................................................................................................................7
3.3 Effectiveness of interpersonal working in health and social care.........................................8
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................8
2.1 Implemented policies, legislation, regulations and codes of practice...................................8
2.2 Local policies and procedures can be developed with national and policy requirements.....9
2.3 Impact of policies and procedures on organisational policy and practice.............................9
3.1 Theories applied in health and social care practice.............................................................10
TASK 5..........................................................................................................................................10
4.1 Evaluating role, responsibilities, accountabilities and duties in the context of working at
health & social care workplace.................................................................................................10
4.2 Contribution to the development and implementation of health and social care
organizational policy.................................................................................................................11
4.3 Recommendations to develop own contributions to meeting good practice requirements.11
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
It is said that if a person is healthy then they can achieve anything. Therefore, it can be
said that health care industries are growing very fast in the economy as people have become
more health conscious. There are various types of health care organisations also that are working
for the people so as to provide them effective treatment (Aronsson, Abrahamsson and Spens,
2011). There are various kinds of patients that require special attention and care and it is
provided to them by these health care homes only. This report will discusses about various case
studies which will focus on implementation of principles of support in health and social care
practice, impacts if policies and legislation on organisations, theories applied in health care
practices. There are various kinds of developments also that has been made by the government in
this sector and it is one of the main reason also it is gaining so much of attention.
TASK 1
1.1 Principles of support that are applied to Denis in Health and social care
The health care practices are offering so much support to the patients as they ensure that
they will be safe and will be taken care off in all manner. In the present era, there is a rapid
increase in the health and social care practices. Therefore, principles of support is very important
as they help in providing effective health and social care services to the customers. In this case
Denis was an 92 years old person and after staying for 7 weeks in hospital he arrived at
residential care home as he was not having money in order to take treatment and there was no
one behind who can care for him. His wife died before 2 years and he was having urine and foot
infection and he said he wished to die because there was no one whom he can share his feeling.
The various principles of support that should be applied to ensure that Denis is taken care
properly are:-
 Respecting Individuality – Each and every individual is different and deserves the
respect. So, in a heath care organisation, it is very important Denis or any other person
should be given proper attention so that they can get cured fast.
 Providing Care – The patients who are in the health care organisation are required to be
handled with great care (Bridges and et. al., 2011). They should be treated with love and
affection so that they feel comfortable and make recovery soon.
 Respecting Diversity – In a health care organisation, there are so many patients who
belong to different community or culture. So, it is the responsibility of the care