Contemporary Health and Social Care Issues Report: Cancer and NHS

This report provides an overview of contemporary issues in health and social care, specifically focusing on the context of the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK and the challenges posed by cancer. It explores the application of the social model of health and illness, emphasizing the importance of understanding diseases like cancer and the need for appropriate assessment within healthcare settings. The report delves into the social model of disability, highlighting its role in shaping societal perceptions and attitudes toward disabilities, particularly in the context of cancer. Sociological explanations are provided, emphasizing the impact of people's attitudes and behaviors on treatment outcomes and the importance of positive perceptions. The report includes UK cancer statistics, discussing incidence rates, survival rates, and the influence of factors like smoking and drinking. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of positive perceptions and a deep understanding of healthcare operations in improving patient outcomes and the overall quality of care within the NHS.

Contemporary Issues in
Health and Social Care

INTRODUCTION
Health and social care services that are been carried out within the firm are quite
susceptible to many obligations and thus will lead the firm to improve the performance of
the organisation.
Health and social care service provider have to maintain their performance and work ethics
in the best possible manner that will help in suitable rise in the operations and hence will
lead to the planning of strategies to meet needs of their patients.
The presentation is presented in context of NHS. It is a UK based health and social care
service provider.

Social model of Health and illness in
understanding of disease
 Maintaining the health and social care services that are been carried out within the firm
will help in proper assessment of the needs and demands of the patients that are
admitted within a health and social care setting like NHS.
 In order to provide the suitable assessment of the disease and maintaining of the
operations that aids to its resolution will be carried out by the organization.
 Different theories and models can be imbibed within the health and social care setting
in order to manage the operations which will support proper identification and
rectification of diseases.
 This will help in the proper assessment of the operations that will help in proper
development of an understanding of disease or condition like Cancer.

Social model of disability:
 It is the effective structure that is followed in order to observe the way a society is been
arranged. It involves the people's perception and attitude towards a disability or
impairment that lays the foundation of implementation of suitable details regarding a
disease or impairment and get suitable management options for it.
 The major aim of social model of health and social care is to change and
improve people perception towards a disease or disability like cancer. It advocates the
placing of the patients and disease survivors to be an imminent part of society and help
them to have a good facility that will help them to have a suitable planning of the
services.

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 These approach will help in proper planning of the business operations that will help in
suitable planning of the operations that will help in effective rise in the planning of
medication and other facilities within the firm.
 This will assist in improving the suitable planning of the services that will help in the
suitable development of treatment measures that will help in incorporating the
medications and other facilities.

Cont….
 Cancer, in the recent time has emerged as a major physical ailment that has taken
numerous people regardless to gender and age. Being a major disease to seek medical
attention or worldwide scale, organizations like NHS will look after the proper
planning of the operations and treatment measures that will improve condition of
patients suffering from it.

Sociological explanation
 The basic aim of the social model of disability is that it helps the organisation to
improve the sales and following of the operations that will help in suitable rise in
positive attitude of people about the treatment of the disease or ailment like cancer.
 In a health and social care setting, the treatment of a disease is largely based upon the
behaviour and attitude of people around the disease and patient.
 A positive and supportive perception helps the organisation to reduce the chances of
severity and increases the recovery opportunities for a person.
 Besides this, increasing the understanding of the diseases will help the family members
of the organisation that will help in suitable planning of the operations which will help
in suitable rise in quality of health and social care support and services for cancer
patients.

Cont….
 The people's perception is required to look after the proper planning of the services and
thus will help in carrying out of the operation's which will help in improving the
welfare actions and medication facilities that are undertaken within NHS.
 Other than this, the selected health and social care organisation will also look after the
proper planning of the measures and setting up of campaigns regarding the rise in
increasing the awareness about Cancer.
 This will help in providing the suitable treatment and handling the sales of the
organisation that assists in proper assessment of the treatment measures carried out for
the proper handling of the cancer and its related prejudices.

Application of the concepts on Cancer
 Cancer is one of the major health or risk factor issue that influences the well being of a
person and his/ her family.
 This will also impact the placing of the operations which will help in meeting the
operational and medical requirements of the organisation this will help in handling the
various operations, treatment measures which are been carried out within the firm.
 This will help in maintaining the growth measures which will help in meeting the
operational functionalities and other health care services in an effective way.
 The social model of disability and health care will help in meeting the health and
treatment requirements of the organisation in much effective and suitable manner.
 This will also help in critically evaluate the reason behind the cause and occurrence of
the disease and hence will help in improving the services of NHS.

Data related to Cancer in UK
Some of major and most effective statistics that are been occurrence of Cancer in UK.
 The latest data indicates that there are in total cases 359,960 out of which 163,444
ended to the death of the patients.
 The survival rate of the organisation has been improved to about 52% due to high level
of preventable cases within the organisation as well as the health and social care setting
in the suitable manner.
 Major cases are of cervical and breast cancer in women and prostate cancer in males.
 The majority of the patients are above the age of 60 years while 1 in 2 of the people in
the census of UK is on the risk of getting infected by one or the other form of cancer.
 The data also suggests that smoking and drinking is the biggest reason of Cancer of the
people in UK.

Major cancer in UK