Healthcare Ethics & Practices

This assignment delves into the critical aspects of health and social care ethics and practices. It covers crucial elements such as safeguarding individuals from abuse and harm, duty of care, advocating for service users, maintaining confidentiality, adopting a humanistic approach to empower individuals, responding to needs and preferences, and working effectively with families and carers. The assignment also explores the role of leadership in health and social care settings.

Safeguarding Adults and
Promoting Independence

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
LO 1.................................................................................................................................................1
P1 Forms of abuse experienced by adults..............................................................................1
P2 Indicators of abuse happening to adults............................................................................1
LO 2.................................................................................................................................................2
P3 Factors that lead abusive situations...................................................................................2
LO 3.................................................................................................................................................2
P4 Key legislation and regulations that govern safeguarding adult work..............................2
LO 4.................................................................................................................................................3
P5 Working strategies and procedure used in Health and Social Care to reduce risk............3
LO 5.................................................................................................................................................4
P6 Role of supportive relationship to reduce risk of abuse....................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Health and Social Care (HSC) enterprises are working to provide proper care and support
to individual to enhance their capabilities and abilities. In this kind of enterprise, different issues
will be resolved that make effective results. In this context, present report is based on NHS
which is the largest health care service centre in the UK. For gaining insight knowledge, it
includes forms of abuse that is experienced by adults. Furthermore, it includes indicators of
abuse that happen to adults.
LO 1
P1 Forms of abuse
Different kinds of abuse has been placed that are as follows -
Physical: In this kind of abuse,
hitting, slapping, punching,
kicking, physical punishment,
etc. are included. In addition to
this, it also includes forcible
feeding, unauthorised
restraints, etc. Sexual: In this way, different
forms of abuse include such as
rape, inappropriate touch
anywhere, non-consensual
sexual penetration, sexual
activity that person lack to
capacity to consent, etc.
Emotional: In this regard,
enforced social isolation
includes that preventing
someone to access services,
educational and social
opportunities as well.
P2 Indicators of abuse happening to adults
Physical abuse indicators:
History of unexplained falls
and minor injuries at different
Psychological abuse
indicators: In the
psychological abuse indicators,
Domestic violence indicators:
Domestic violence indicators
includes undermining and
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stages. Slap, kick, punch, etc.
that can take place due to
physical abuse. Weight loss
due to dehydration,
malnutritions, etc.
fearfulness expressed eyes,
deference, changes in appetite,
tearfulness, etc. elements take
place which impact health and
social care.
individuals, self-confidence,
threats to other children, etc. It
includes destructive criticism
and verbal abuse such as
shouting, commit suicide, take
children away, etc.
LO 2
P3 Factors that lead abusive situations
Following are certain factors that lead to abuse situations:
Adult most at risk: Vulnerable adult is the is someone aged of 18 yrs and it is who has been
suffered with care services because of disability, age, etc. Older people especially vulnerable
because of unwell, confused, etc.
Environment: Environment in which abuse occurs to vulnerable people with supportive
accommodation such as hospital, care home, etc. Little assessment, poor management and
enforced legislation in place receiving inadequate care.
LO 3
P4 Legislation and regulations that are take place in health care
Following are relevant legislation and regulations exist:
 Safeguarding Vulnerable Group Act 2007: This act passed to help and avoid the harm,
risk of harm through preventing people who deemed unsuitable work with children. In
this aspect, information will be gain through work (White, Currie and Lockett, 2014).
 Rehabilitations of Offenders Act 1974: According to this act, manager of health and
Social Care require enable some criminal convictions which need to be ignored after the
rehabilitations period. Its main aim is to create lifelong blot on their records because of
relatively minor offence passed (Glasby and Dickinson, 2014).
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 The Care Homes Regulations 2001: These regulations made under the care standard of
2000. In this way, new arrangements replace with the regulatory system which provided
for relations to residential care homes and nursing by the registered Homes Act 1984.
 Discrimination Act 1964: According to this act, NHS need to prohibit discrimination in
employment on the basis of race, sex, colour, ethnic origin, etc.
 Human right Act 1993: In this aspect, NHS need to provide all rights that are existed in
parliament so that it helps to develop effective results at workplace. In this way, proper
communication will be placed in the environment to provide effective results.
 Data Protection Act 1998: In this regard, the institute has responsibilities to take proper
care of data of patient in systematic manner. In this way, they need to concentrate on
providing proper care of people in systematic manner (Whitmee, Haines and Horton,
2015).
 Equality Act 2010: In this regard, NHS need to concentrate on the effective functioning
in the environment through development of people. In this way, each person need to
provide same rights so that proper and effective working will be ascertained at
workplace.
LO 4
P5 Strategies and procedure in the health and social care
In order to make effective results in Health and Social Care, following are certain
strategies and procedures implemented at workplace:
 Recruitment of staff: In order to develop effective results, correct procedure need to be
implemented in NHS to recruit member in staff. With the help of proper information,
effective way will be created to provide services (Moule, 2015). For instance,
information access regarding individual that barred from the working of people. Hence,
individual safeguarding authority and role of criminal record office will be ascertained at
workplace.
 Sector guidance: In respect to create sector guidance, the protection of vulnerable adults
scheme in England and Wales developed for adult placement scheme. There are no secret
departments exist to health guidance. Dignity in care initiatives ascertain with human
right (Vedder, Cuijpers and Ferrari, 2014).
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 Strategies: In this regard, strategies developed to reduce risk of abuse which includes
multi-agency approach provision and services. In addition to this, it also ascertains with
working of partnership with using different services, families and informal careers.
 Procedures for protection: In the first line defence, it is seen that referrals in the case of
suspected occurs at workplace. Therefore, problems need to be solved by the decision
making procedures, assessment, recording, monitoring, complaint procedures, etc. (Moss,
2017).
LO 5
P6 Role of supportive relationship to reduce risk of abuse
In this regard, role of supportive relationship also developed to promote the rights,
independence and well-being of adults in the Health and Social Care:
 Core principles of care: Main role of the supportive relationship is to develop the core
principles of care dignity, privacy, respect, fairness, etc. Therefore, it assists to work in
systematic manner at NHS.
 Build effective relationship: In respect to work in significant manner, relationship need
to be developed that assists to accomplish desired results in health care enterprise (White,
Currie and Lockett, 2014). In this way, adults are using Health and Social Care services
that are planned with centre of all activities. In this regard, care providers need to listen
their needs and requirement through appropriate way of communication. For instance,
verbal, non-verbal, etc. In addition to this, they have responsibilities to respect culture
and belief to recognise needs and preferences.
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 Working practices: In effective system of working in health care, the organisations need
to concentrate on the assessment process and care planning cycle. Further, they need to
determine person centred practices with active mode of communication (Glasby and
Dickinson, 2014). It determines anti oppressive practices which includes protocols for
sharing and accessing information. This assists to provide safe and secure environment
which is main duty of care, advocacy and maintain confidentiality.
 Supportive practices: Supportive practices also includes humanistic approach which is
empowering individual and promoting their rights, which gives choices with different
preferred methods of communication. In respect to meet with needs of customers, Health
and Social Care need to concentrate on the responsiveness to people. It assists to concern
and complaints in the health and social care. Remaining flexible working effectively also
develops with individual, family and careers (Dickinson and O'Flynn, 2016).
CONCLUSION
From the above report, it can be concluded that safeguarding in Health and Social Care
determines important role that make successful operations in the business. In this way, report
summarised about the forms of abuse and its indicators at workplace. Furthermore, it articulated
about the different elements that are used in the health and social care.
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Illustration 1: Leadership in health care
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
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Glasby, J. and Dickinson, H., 2014. Partnership working in health and social care: what is
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Moss, B., 2017. Communication skills in health and social care. Sage.
Moule, P., 2015. Making sense of research in nursing, health and social care. Sage.
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e-health: challenges and opportunities. Law, Innovation and Technology, 6(2), pp.305-
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White, L., Currie, G. and Lockett, A., 2014. The enactment of plural leadership in a health and
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Whitmee, S., Haines, A. and Horton, R., 2015. Safeguarding human health in the Anthropocene
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