Food Safety Act's Role in Healthcare Quality Assurance

The provided report discusses the importance of maintaining high standards in health and social care, particularly through the implementation of the Food Safety Act 1990. Within the NHS context, this act plays a crucial role in ensuring that food safety standards are met to maintain service quality and improve patient outcomes. The assignment explores both strengths, such as enhanced patient care worldwide and disease reduction, and weaknesses like challenges in consistent application and high costs associated with compliance. Additionally, it highlights key issues faced by the NHS, including frequent policy variations and their effects on performance and profitability.

Health & Safety in the
Health & Social Care
Workplace

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4
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INTRODUCTION
Health and safety is important for the each and every person to do all activities
systematically. Witness Testimony is an essential area of investigation in human memory and
cognitive psychology (Glasby, 2017). This report is based on National health service, it provide
different quality services to patients. This assignment shown about evaluation of the health care
policy and its strength and weakness.
Witness testimony: It is identify as a legal term that bring up an account provided by people of a
program they have witnessed. For example: they may be needed to provide a full information at
a test of a robbery. This includes description of perpetrators and details of the entire crime.
Witness testimony form:
Learners Name ABC
Qualification: MBA in Human resource management and
Marketing.
Unit number & title: Health & Safety in the Health & Social Care
Workplace
Company name: National Health Service(NHS)
Manager /Supervisor name Manager of NHS
Learner Job role: Evaluating health and safety policy
Health and Safety Policy evaluated Description
of activity undertaken and Evaluation of one
Health and safety policy used at work
FOOD SAFETY, it is a chosen policy of
Health and safety. In the organisation it is more
important act for the employees.
Health and safety policy: NHS is a health care organisation in United Kingdom. Main aim and
motive of this business is to provide quality service to the patients in a systematic manner
(Hutchinson and Jackson, 2015). In this National health service sector chose FOOD SAFETY
policy which is beneficial and important for the organisation to give healthy food to the service
user.
Food Safety Act 1990: This legislation outlines the regulations and rules which follow each and
every person who may mange food as their job part but also sale, distribute, produce or store
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food (Food Safety Act 1990, 2018). It is a main legislation that regulated by the government with
aim of giving healthy goods to the service user. This act defines that it is unlawful to keep or sell
product that is unsuitable for people in order to eat it. People who perform with nutrient must see
that they are liable to ignore the misleads and quality labelling. It is used by National Health
service in order to maintain their performance and profitability effectively. With the help of this
legislation company can easily enhance their service quality and standard easily. There are some
roles and responsibility of NHS in order to keep food safety act systematically (Jeffreys, 2015).
In this business mainly use four Cs' which are determined as below: Cleaning: Confirm that utensil and surfaces that exit into legal statement with nutrient
are kept fresh. Cooking: Confirm that hot nutrient, especially meat such as pork and chicken. In this
business should tries to maintain service quality in an effective manner. Chilling: In this NHS ensure that freezers and refrigerators in order to stored food in a
sufficient manner.
 Cross-Contamination: In this business organisation confirm that bacteria which are not
conveyance from one to another surface for example: cleaning and hands cloths.
There are some strength and weakness of food safety act 1990 which is important for the NHS to
maintain their food quality and improve performance level systematically (Phillips, 2016). These
are determined as below:
Strengths Weakness
 It is essential in making the nutrient
hygienic and fresh.
 NHS gives healthy and effective food
quality to the patients in all over the
world. It can reduce diseases as well as
keep proper health essentially.
 National Health Service used total
quality management tool with aim
keeping food quality.
 One of the main disadvantage of Food
safety act 1990 is not emphasis on
checking food quality.
 NHS does not apply rules and
regulations in way of improving food
quality.
 It is very expansive for the company to
established this legislation.
There are some issues and limitation of Food safety act which is faced by the NHS during
providing healthy foods to the patients. These are determined as below:
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Limitations Issues
Sometimes, NHS regularly make variation in
its Food safety policy for keeping quality and
standard of services.
Main issue of such act is highly effects on
business performance and profitability. Rapid
variation in the rules concentrated to food
safety act develop issue for NHS.
CONCLUSION
From the above mentioned report, it can be determined health is very important part of
the human life. In order to maintain service quality and standard easily, business apply food
safety act 1990 which is beneficial for them. This act has some strength and weakness which
assist business to identify basic needs and requirement of patients.
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REFERENCES
Book & Journals
Glasby, J., 2017. Understanding health and social care. Policy Press.
Hutchinson, M. and Jackson, D., 2015. The construction and legitimation of workplace bullying
in the public sector: insight into power dynamics and organisational failures in health
and social care. Nursing inquiry. 22(1). pp.13-26.
Jeffreys, M. R., 2015.Teaching cultural competence in nursing and health care: Inquiry, action,
and innovation. Springer Publishing Company.
Phillips, J. P., 2016. Workplace violence against health care workers in the United States. New
England journal of medicine. 374(17). pp.1661-1669.
Online
Food Safety Act 1990. 2018. [Online]. Available through:<https://www.food.gov.uk/business
industry/guidancenotes/hygguid/fsactguide>.
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