Quality Assurance in Health and Social Care

This report discusses SDGs related to public health, Maltese Sexual Health Strategy, HIV testing protocols, and Malta's performance in relation to SDGs. It also provides insights on risk management in healthcare and treatment for dementia patients.

Quality Assurance in
Health and Social Care

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Identify and describe the SDG related to the above scenario.................................................3
Retrieve the Maltese Sexual Health Strategy and describe the current plan..........................3
Identify and describe current HIV testing protocols in Malta................................................3
Retrieve recent information about Malta’s performance in relation to SDGs........................3
Section 2.................................................................................................................................4
Section C-...............................................................................................................................4
Malta health review and staff performance review................................................................4
Section 4.................................................................................................................................4
Section 5.................................................................................................................................5
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................6
References........................................................................................................................................7
Books and Journals.................................................................................................................7
Appendix..........................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Sustainable development goal(SDG) is denotes as an agenda. These agendas form for the
public safety and health issues related to public (De Cock and et.al.,2019). In the place of Malta,
there are some diseases which spreads widely. Some of the diseases are HIV, and several chronic
infections. This report also discusses about the SDG 3rd in this type of SDG, the community will
take care about the health issue related with public and also outlines the Sexual Health Strategies.
Identify and describe the SDG related to the above scenario.
It significand’s that the SDG 3rd is for the public health and social well-being. According
to the scenario, HIV infection is communicable diseases. SDG promises to the public that at the
end of the 2030, the problem of AIDS can be decreases or ended throughout the place of Malta.
Retrieve the Maltese Sexual Health Strategy and describe the current plan.
The Maltese sexual health strategy is one of the strategy that can works on the healthy
sexual life and behaviour along with increasing the awareness regarding sexual health and
decreases the risky behaviour. Maltese island is situates in the Central Mediterranean which can
strictly follows the Sustainable development goal for developing the sexual health strategy. It
also works on declining the rate of inadvertent pregnancies (Noland, 2021).
Identify and describe current HIV testing protocols in Malta.
There are many diseases spreading in the Malta island, but the most spreadable disease is
HIV. Due to this, the HIV testing gives top most priority and increases the rate of testing per day
for detection of the HIV patient. This testing is performs by the testing of blood sample and also
detected through urine. But the survey says that, blood sample have more accurate instead of
urine sample. The major protocol of testing is followed by the Malta that is to avoids the
contamination in the testing report and provides the accuracy in the testing (Saxby, Chan and
Babington, 2022).
Retrieve recent information about Malta’s performance in relation to SDGs.
There are four main concerns for occurrent are intersectional nature of inequality; the
problem of health funding; the limitation of many current. The whole significance, of sustainable
development goal is prevent the patients from the particular diseases and controls the death rate
in the place of Malta. Malta have the SDGs which are approximately 17 in numbers but, the
main SDG is 3rd which can dedicated to the health and well being of ages group.

Section 2
1.
The decentralized services is famous for the cost effectiveness and also improves patients
experiences. Private primary care hospitals are helps to improves the common diseases and also
provides general medical check ups. It was also used to integration care across settings (Ballard
and et.al.,2021).
2.
This medicine which is taken to prevent the HIV, it is one of the most highly effective
and preventive measure in HIV. It can also said that PrEP it is famous for the protection of HIV
and Condoms are used as to prevents from the STDs (sexual transmitted diseases). It is safe but
some people have many side effects and also adverse drug reactions includes headache, nausea,
diarrhoea, fatigue and many more (Smit and et.al.,2022).
3.Flow Chart
Mentioned in appendix
Section C-
Malta health review and staff performance review
The life expectancy rate of Malta is the higher because the life span of the majority of
people is in good health. The region in the Malta contains of the public sector which provides
majority of services. There are many services that are available for the population but there are
several issues which can faced by ageing population due to financial and infrastructural
limitation. It is the plan of care that comprises with the individual needs. There are various
segments of the population which are facing health issues. In order to deal with that health
issues, there are various health system that works for the segments of the population. The regular
feedback is provided to development of the employees. The terms staff performance review is
said to be the process which is used to improve the quality in relation to attract new opportunities
which tends to improve the overall development (Tyndall and et.al.,2022).
Section 4
There are many issues that are comes under the risk management in healthcare, the tendency to
identified and analyses the risk by risk management cycle. Some of the risk management are
mentioned below:

Identify Risk: In the risk management cycle, the first step is to identify the risk in which the
particular risk in the healthcare sector is being identified that is seen, the HIV problem created
into the Malta that can affects the healthcare environment.
Measure Risk: After, to identifies the risk, the next step is to measure the particular risk. In
context to the sexual transmitted diseases in Malta.
Analyse and Evaluate the risk: Analyse and evaluate the risk in which the RMC analyses the
number of people suffering from HIV and also evaluate the data and statistics of the treatable
persons.
Treat/manage risks: When government of the Malta launches new policies regarding the
healthcare and under the guidance of the agenda SDG 3rd to implements the policies into the
patients of HIV and manages their health.
Section 5
 The treatment given to the patients of dementia, in context to residential treatment or care
of dementia patients with the help of domiciliary nursing that can face many risk factors
like the dementia patient have lose the ability of thinking and remembering. They lose the
ability of remembering the things due to this, they are not able to remember to take the
medicines. There are many domestic things that people are forgot to do like in the
kitchen, they are not able to remember to turn off the nozzle of gas and many littler
things. The medical equipment’s are not available in the home setting and also some
nursing tools that can helps to the patients are not helps in the domiciliary nursing.
 It can be seen that the medical sector has to follow the legal base which contains of some
guidelines in relation to treat the patients. In context of Dementia Patient while taking
care of them at home there are various sort of guidelines of medical councils which are to
be followed by the family, doctors and nurses. These guidelines will be used at the time
of treating the patients at the home. Moreover, there are various other necessity things
that comes in the category of the legal requirement for instance patient care, nursing
team, expertise to manage the patients, medical staff must have knowledge regarding
patient treatment and particularly for the dementia patients.
 With the aim of providing treatment to the dementia patients under which the supply of
care regarding the patients centric is must because in that process the nursing staff must
be aware about the ways of taking care of the patients and also effects in engaging into

the actions that can further improve the overall condition of the patients. That is why it is
must to provide the dose on time and also to make sure about taking care of their physical
activity and many others.
 Also, the nurses and supports can talk about the current events, start some activities,
keeping lights on the night and using reminders or notes for the purpose of directing daily
activities. Moreover, the patients must be checked on a regular basis that is their eyes and
ears because if problem is found in relation to the hearing aids, glasses then cataract
surgery may be needed.
 It can also be seen that people with Dementia often forget to eat and drink which can tend
to increase the level of dehydration in their body. The caretaker must ensure about the
heating habits and the pattern.
 The ultimate plan is to handle the affecting risk management and it comprises of five
steps which are related to support in order to implement the plan in a proper manner in
the risk management. For instance, to identify the potential risk; Evaluate and assessment
of the potential risk; Assign ownership in every potential risk; To creates preemptive
responses and continuously monitor risk Albury, K., 2018).
Conclusion
From the above information, it can be projected that sustainable development goal helps
to resolves the issues related to public health. The report presented about the sexually transmitted
diseases that can be transmitted broadly in the Malta. In addition to this, the report also
enlightened in relation to the PrEP.

References
Books and Journals
Albury, K., 2018. Young people, digital media research and counterpublic sexual
health. Sexualities, 21(8), pp.1331-1336.
Ballard, A.M., Hoover, A.T., Rodriguez, A.V. and Caruso, B.A., 2021. Emphasizing choice and
autonomy in personal hygiene, menstrual health, and sexual health product distribution to people
experiencing homelessness in Atlanta, Georgia during COVID-19. Health Promotion
Practice, 22(6), pp.764-766.
De Cock, K.M., Barker, J.L., Baggaley, R. and El Sadr, W.M., 2019. Where are the positives?
HIV testing in sub-Saharan Africa in the era of test and treat. Aids, 33(2), pp.349-352.
Noland, C.M., 2021. Negotiating desire and uncertainty on tinder during the covid-19 pandemic:
Implications for the transformation of sexual health communication. Cyberpsychology,
Behavior, and Social Networking, 24(7), pp.488-492.
Saxby, K., Chan, C. and Bavinton, B.R., 2022. Structural stigma and sexual health disparities
among gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men in Australia. JAIDS Journal of
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 89(3), pp.241-250.
Smit, M., Jordans, C.C., Reinhard, J.M., Bramer, W.M., Verbon, A., Rokx, C. and Calmy, A.,
2022. Clinical decision support systems to guide healthcare providers on HIV
testing. AIDS, 36(8), pp.1083-1093.
Tyndall, I., Hartland, T., Banerjee, M., Giacomelli, V., Ball, I., Churchill, S., Pereira, A. and
Lowry, R., 2022. Tailoring sexual health interventions for middle-aged and older adults,
including vulnerable populations: A scoping review. International Journal of Sexual Health,
pp.1-21.

Appendix
With the help of NGOs and Public, to spread out the PrEP via
comparison with the Malta taking support from the local people.
Officially and unofficially Collecting the data of the people.
Organising the campaigns and health talks to aware about the
PrEP of schedule V.
Evaluate and implements into the general healthcare services into
the Malta.