Impact of Quality Standards on Healthcare Services

Part 1:
1.
Quality standard Information covered in
standards
Affect on role
Dignity and
respect
This involves by dealing with
people in an appropriate
manner a consistent support
will be furnished to NHS for
delivering their liabilities.
Here, privacy will be given to
individual as per their
requirements and they are
treated with dignity as well as
respect.
This leads to have affirmative impact
on the role that is being carried out as
this will imply that being a health
professional all the responsibilities for
providing services to people are
carried out in an affirmative manner.
So that each individual who receives
treatment feel dignified and satisfied
with their services.
Equal opportunity
for each patient
It comprises of rendering
effective care at genuine
prices and even at lower
costs as well as minimisation
of waste that can be
maintained.
This creates a significant impact on
the ways in which healthcare services
are furnished by individuals by taking
into account needs of those who
cannot afford services. In addition to
this, all the liabilities must be carried
out in an appropriate way.
2a.
There are various regulatory bodies within the healthcare practices so that each individual
can be treated affirmatively by ensuring adequate services are given to them. The two
bodies are Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency and Department of
Health. The MHRA is liable for regulation of medicines and equipments that are utilised
within healthcare for investigating harmful incident. Basically, they look after any kind of
blood products, healthcare providers and other significant firms for improvising safety and
quality of blood across United Kingdom. The DHSC is accountable for government policies
related with health as well as adult social care across England and few entities from Scottish
government. They have formulated certain guidelines along with policies for improvisation of
quality care through which anticipations of patients can be addressed in an effective way.
These both regulatory are liable for delivering enhanced services to individuals by look after
their requirements and providing equal treatment to them.
2b.
Department of health is accountable for improvising healthcare services by making relevant
efforts within assisting people to lead their life appropriately so that they can lead a normal
life. They are also liable to make sure that all the patients are provided with significant
treatments along with enhanced support within safe and secured environment. On the other
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hand, Medicine and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency is responsible to furnish
significant control for usage of medicines along with medical strategies by opting for science
and research for detecting where these can be found and accordingly making
improvisations. These both regulatory are different but aims at providing people with
improvised healthcare so that they can be treated in healthy manner without any errors or
any kind of services that might not be apt for them.
3.
Policies Who gets Maintaining quality
standards
Support to
employees
In this case employer as well as
patients will be impacted as when
employees will not receive relevant
support then they will not be able to
deliver their responsibilities as per
desired standards. This will further
lead to create a significant
pessimistic impact on their
responsibilities as they might not
be able to do this as per the
requirements of their profile.
It is important that quality
standards are ensured and for
this it is important that there
are creating policies as well as
procedures for dealing with
such kind of situations. In
addition to this, it has to be
made sure that these policies
are abided by all the
employees along with
employers.
Confidentiality or
safeguarding
When such kind of situations takes
place then it is mostly the
management of organisation who
gets impacted as when employees
will not work as per the desired
standards then there will be
significant influence on their
offerings. It has to be ensured that
all the regulations are ensured so
that confidentiality or any details of
their patients are not given to
anybody.
They needs to ensure that
effectual quality standards are
maintained by considering that
all the procedures are adopted
and followed in precise
manner. This will enable
employees to deliver their
responsibilities in adequate
manner by adhering to certain
procedures that have been
developed via regulating
authorities. For this effective
measures must be taken.
Person-centred care Organisation on the whole will be
impacted by this. For an instance if
employee gives wrong treatment
like medicines the it will can have
adverse impact on the health of
person. This will impact
organisation on the whole.
Furthermore, the information must
be communicated appropriately
and same message must be
delivered to all depending upon
confidentiality and role that has to
The quality standards can be
ensured by monitoring that all
the procedures and policies
that have been formulated by
the management of firm are
abided by each employee so
that they can deliver significant
and relevant services to the
patients.
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be played by the latter.
Transparency is not needed by
formal messages has to be sent.
This will enable patient to have
precise care b emphasising on their
respective requirements.
4.
Quality standards
not addressed
Impact on quality of
service
Probable implications
The quality
standards that have
not been addressed
includes that service
users are at certain
harm where they
can suffer certain
problems in case if
desired standards of
service quality are
not addressed then
this might lead to
create severe impact
on the health of
individuals. In
addition to this,
within the scenario
such kind of
programmes has not
been addressed in
an effective way.
This might lead to creation of
worse situation because of
the lack of quality services.
For an example if person is
allergic to some sort of
medicine like any calcium
and the same is given to
them then this might lead to
creation of adverse impact
on the health of the person.
This implies that quality of
services have been
impacted as all the history of
patient is not considered
while delivering them
treatment. Thus, it becomes
that programmes must be
formulated and
communicated to each
employee that will lead them
to improvise their services
and also patients will be
satisfied through this.
The probable implications associated
with service users or employees is
that it is important that a relevant
training is furnished to employees so
that they can deliver their best to treat
each individual on the basis of
problems they have as well as
considering all the probable aspects
that might lead to creation of
pessimistic influence on their health.
The most essential aspect is that
management must develop certain
training programmes for enhancing
capabilities if their employees and
when one session is done, the other
must be planned so that all the
minute details related with different
situations can be analysed and
accordingly solution can be
formulated for dealing with them. This
will even lead to healthy
communication among employees
and further make it easy to furnish
their liabilities within the working
premises.
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Part 2:
1.
People
The aspect or factor that can lead to affect service provisioning in the health sector is
that if employees that are being hired by organisation or health institute is not well trained,
experienced and qualified then it will not be possible for the latter to deliver their services as
per desired standards. This might even lead to dissatisfaction of the individuals with
reference to services that are being delivered to them.
Equipment
This involves the factors which can create an impact on the service provisioning of
the organisation is equipment. This involves that the devices might be out dated and might
provide faulty assumptions. Like each machine have a certain time frame or they have to
maintain in an appropriate manner so that precise information can be attained. But if this is
not done any tests are conducted and suppose in case wrong results are attained then there
will be worse impact on individuals who are given treatment according to the outcome. There
is a possibility that latter might lose their life due to mistake of equipments that are used by
the firm. Furthermore, there can be a delay within the services and high probability that
employees might not be able to deliver their responsibilities within given duration of time
frame.
Work practices
The entities that will be impacted via service provision in case of health sector are
that human resources within the organisation might be restructured. There are certain
factors that involves poor shift within planning that may imply that employees are over
whelmed or the hygienic standards might have been raised.
Environment
The factor that will lead to significant affect on the services of health institutes is that
when security of users comes then it is important that there is a sense of safety as well as
comfort zone is developed through which they can easily share the problems that are faced
via them. Apart from this, if unhygienic and inappropriate environment is present then it
creates a pessimistic impact on individuals and thee is high probability that they might feel
secured.
2.
The significance of evaluation as well as monitoring services provisioning within the health
sector have to be accessed in a significant way. This will lead to have an insight into areas
that need to be improved so that agnostic impact on the users can be prevented. By
evaluation the areas can be identified and accordingly modifications can be carried out for
addressing factors which lacks behind in context of formulated guidelines. It becomes
important for health professionals that precise standards are there so that they know how to
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