The Government's Role in Shaping Health and Social Care Policies

This presentation provides an overview of the government's role in health and social care, examining the influence of legislation, the executive, and the judiciary. It explores how these branches shape the legal and policy landscape for health and social care practitioners, including key features of legislation, statutory guidance, codes of practice, and national and organizational policies. The presentation also discusses how ethics inform health, care, and support service practices, and evaluates the UK's National Health Service (NHS) in relation to its impact on health, care, and support services. The conclusion summarizes the significant roles of the three government branches in influencing healthcare policies and practices, supported by references to relevant literature.

GOVERNMENT IN
HEALTH AND SOCIAL
CARE

INTRODUCTION
 Health and social care policies can be defined as plans, decisions and actions that are
undertaken in order to achieve specific healthcare goals within the society.
 There are various kinds of polices and procedures within health and social care system
that helps impacts healthcare practitioners and their practises in many ways.
 This presentation will lay emphasis on ways in which legislation, executive and
judiciary set the legal and policy landscape for health and social care practitioners, and
key features of legislation, Statutory guidance, codes of practice, national and
organizational policy.

P 1 WAYS IN WHICH LEGISLATION, EXECUTIVE
AND JUDICIARY SET THE LEGAL AND POLICY
LANDSCAPE FOR HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE
PRACTITIONERS
 Health and social care practitioners do not consist of a well-defined role but it changes
over time. It is influenced by three branches of government: legislation, executive and
judiciary. These three branches of government does influences legal and policy
landscape for health and social care practitioners.
 Legislative branch determines what program or service of care will be paid by the
government of and for which type of members of the society. Government financially
supports healthcare practitioner’s education that directly influences number and type of
practitioners.
 Licencing law of the state determines what kind of health and social practitioners may
perform what kind of services.

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 Judicial branch is responsible for interpreting laws that are related to health and social
care.
 Administrative or executive branch focuses on development of rules and regulations
that further helps in interpreting the laws and oversees implementation of different
kinds of health and social care programs.

P 2 SUMMARY OF KEY FEATURES OF LEGISLATION,
STATUTORY GUIDANCE, CODES OF PRACTISE,
NATIONAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY.
 Key features of legislation: Safe practises are extremely important in order to promote
dignity in health and social care. There are various kinds of legislative measures that
helps in supporting health and social care of public. Various kinds of legislations have
been made that helps health and social care sector in provision of excellent services to
people.
 Key features of legislation impact healthcare practises in many ways:
 Provision of basic health protection for people through pooled fund.
 Mandatory enrolment in funds based on people’s ability to pay and with government
subsidiary.
 Benefits that are paid on the basis of health needs rather then on the basis of payment ability.

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 Statutory guidance:
 it helps in describing higher level these and issues that local authorities focuses on while
doing their duties in order to shape services and local market.
 It mainly focuses on making and safeguarding personal approach. It basically represents shift
in social work practises with relation to safeguarding and focusing a persona not a process.
 Code of Practise:
 Code of practises can be defined as a set of practises that helps in explaining ways in which
people work who work in health care organizations should behave.
 This document complements all kinds of health and safety laws and regulations in order to
provide detailed practises, guidelines a way in which legal obligations can be complied and
should be followed until and unless another solution with sale or better health and safety
standards are documented.

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 National policy:
 national healthcare policy aims at attainment of high level of health and well-being
though preventive and promotive health care orientation in all kinds of
developmental polices.
 It also helps in access good quality of health care services without facing any kind
of hardship or financial consequences.
 All kinds of national healthcare policies mainly focuses on targeting incident
reduction and prevention of various kinds of disease conditions.
 Organizational Policy:
 Each and every organization has its own healthcare policy and procedure. It
directly impacts provision of standard practises and operational activities.

M 1 WAYS IN WHICH ETHICS INFORM HEALTH,
CARE AND SUPPORT SERVICE PRACTISE
 Medical ethics involves examination of a specific problem using vales, facts, logic to
decide best course of actions that should be.
 These ethics helps in resolving issues and also helps in determining what is right and
what is wrong.
 Ethics helps healthcare system in informing correct and ethical practises that should be
carried out within the organization.

D 1 EVALUATION OF OWN NATIONAL SYSTEM
OF GOVERNANCE IN RELATION TO ITS EFFECT
ON HEALTH, CARE AND SUPPORT SERVICES
PRACTICE AND PRACTITIONERS
 UK government has sponsored healthcare system which is known as National health
services.
 NHS consist of series of publicly funded healthcare systems in UK. All the citizens of
UK are entitled to healthcare system under this system they also have an option to buy
health care services from private healthcare organizations as well.

CONCLUSION
 From the above presentation it has been summarized that there are three branches
of government that influences legal and policy landscape for health and social care
practitioners in many different ways.
 All the three branches of government plays a vital and different role in influencing
health care system polices and practises

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