Exploring Law, Policy, and Ethical Practices in Health and Social Care

This report provides an overview of the legal, policy, and ethical considerations within health and social care, with a focus on the responsibilities of healthcare professionals. It examines the Mental Capacity Act, which aims to protect the rights and well-being of individuals who lack the capacity to make their own decisions, including those with dementia, learning disabilities, or mental illness. The report also discusses the Code of Conduct, which outlines the expected behaviors and attitudes of healthcare workers, emphasizing the duty of care, privacy, dignity, and the promotion of equity and inclusion. Furthermore, the report highlights the importance of the Human Rights Act 1998, emphasizing the need for healthcare organizations to respect and promote human rights to enhance the experience of service users, workers, and commissioners. The report underscores the importance of a multidisciplinary team in upholding these legal and ethical standards within healthcare settings, such as Winterbourne, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality, rights-based care.

Law, Policy and Ethical Practice in
Health and Social care

Law, Policy and Ethical Practice in Health and Social care
Human Rights act 1998:
In Winterbourne authorities including the NHS organization owns a duty of respect and
promote the human rights of people. The human rights are provided to the people that can
improve experience for everybody that is the users of the services, workers, service
commissioners and provided. The human rights' act, 1998 of the UK defines the duty of
care that each and every organization under the health and social care including
Winterbourne must comply with regulations and provisions prescribed under the
legislation. The multidisciplinary team under thus sectors have certain responsibility
towards the patients and other person taking integrated care and support services:-
Enhance the knowledge, understating and ability to meets the duty of care, respect along
with protecting and promoting the human rights. Winterbourne is responsible to promote
concept on the human rights and their protection through delegation of service designing
and delivery in high quality.
Mental capacity Act: This is the act which is established with a view to protect and
empower for those who lack mental capacity to make their own decision about their care
and treatment. This act is applicable on those with age 16 and more. The people who are
covered under this act are those suffering from dementia, learning disability, brain injury,
mental illness, stroke etc. the difficulties in making decision may be related with day to
day thing such as what to wear, what to buy etc. This act is applicable to all those who fall
under this category of industry including Winterbourne. Rather, all professionals- doctors,
nurses, social workers, occupational therapist health care assistant and support stage owes a
duty of care to those lacking mental capacity while providing them the integrated care. The
multidisciplinary team of Winterbourne is must in the capacity of this act.
Code of conduct:
The code of conduct defines the standards of conduct expected from the health and
social care sector. This outlines the capacity of the behaviors and attitude that can be practiced
by Winterbourne while delegation the integrated care. With this code the personnel of
Winterbourne are assisted with providing safe and guaranteed care and support. The delegated
duty of care for under this sector can be defined as:- being accountable for any omission,
actions or error committed, to promote and upheld the privacy, dignity, rights and wellbeing
of hoses taking the care and support services. The multidisciplinary team of Winterbourne is
required to work in collaboration with the peers as they owe a duty of care towards the
organization as well to whom they are giving the hospitality aid. To have accountability for
promoting equity, diversity and inclusion within the sector. In brief, code of conduct defines
the duty and responsibility of people in this body with defining their delegated powers and
capacity in which they can exercise those delegations.

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REFERENCES
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Human rights in health and social care. 2018 [Online]. Available through
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Code of Conduct for healthcare support workers. 2017. [Online]. Available through
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Mental Capacity Act. 2018 [Online]. Available through :<https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/social-
care-and-support-guide/making-decisions-for-someone-else/mental-capacity-act/>.
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