Health and Social Care Practice: Policies, Legislation, and Impact

This report provides a comprehensive overview of the principles of health and social care practice, focusing on the implementation of policies, legislation, regulations, and codes of practice. It emphasizes the importance of data protection, adherence to regulations like the Control of Substance Hazardous to Health, and the development of local and national policies within care homes. The report evaluates the impact of these policies, highlighting improvements in hygiene, safety, and medical facilities, as well as the role of health camps. It also discusses various theories underpinning health-care practice, such as automatic selection and discriminatory approaches, and the impact of social processes on service users. Furthermore, the report assesses the effectiveness of interprofessional working, emphasizing the benefits of group activities and shared responsibilities. The report concludes with a list of references including books and journals related to the topic.

Principle of health
and
Social care practice
(PART 2)

Implementation of policies, legislation,
regulations and codes of practice
 To ensure quality of services that
is being provided to the users,
various policies, laws and
regulations have been formulated
by the government which are
important considerations in code
of practices.
 Health care sector is very
sensitive and requires proper
handling including risks factors as
well.

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 Data protection act must be obeyed by the workers and should
ensure data confidentiality as well. They should not share
information about the patients to anyone without having prior
permission from them.
 According to this act, only authorised person has rights to access
the details.
 There is another regulation known as Control of Substance
Hazardous to Health Regulation.
 According to this act, chemical substances should be added only
when necessary otherwise use of chemical agents and ingredients
should be prohibited.

Development of legal and local policies' accordance with
requirements
 As per national policies, care
homes are also required to
maintain them in the
organization.
 All these developed
procedures acts as guidelines
for the institutes that helps
them in carrying out their
business operations.
 Scope of local policy is
limited whereas national
policies has wider extent..

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 Every individual have rights to enjoy their life and live freely. One
can enjoy a good life if he intakes nutritious food.
 Care homes have responsibility to ensure availability of basic
needs so that they could lead independent and quality life.
 Cultural and social barriers should not be present and everybody
should get equal treatment.
 Local policies are designed considering local people and their
cultural values.

Evaluation of impact of policy, legislation,
regulation and codes of practice
 Policies, rules and regulations
and codes of practice have direct
impact on the organization's
working.
 Guidelines are provided by them
which are needed to be followed in
the system.
 Policy formulation in health care
organisations is very critical as it
one of the most sensitive industry
and several risks are associated
with them.

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Some of the impacts are listed below:
 As a result of policies, health care homes ensure proper
maintenance of hygiene within premises.
 Conducting health camps has assisted people to identify diseases
at early stage.
 Safety and security has been increased.
 Improved medical facilities are made available to the patients.
 Employees are now engaged in obeying rules properly because
they know if they would not follow them, punishments would be
bear by them.

Theories that underpin health-care practice
 Various theories are there in
health and social care
practices.
 It comprises needs of
individuals and priority is
given to them.
 These theories help in
developing plan for healthy
lifestyle and acquisition of
social, mental and physical
stability.

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Few theories are discussed below:
 Automatic selection: several times cases arise when choice has to
made between available options for the attendant and service
users. This dilemma raises conflicts among the authorities and
patients.
 Discriminatory approach: when individuals have good relations
with higher authorities of the organisation, they get enhanced
treatment and better facilities.
 This kind of discrimination is not justifiable. These practices
should be avoided and everyone should be facilitated with same
facilities and services.

Impact of social processes on users of social
and health care services
 Social processes involves
interaction among individuals and
group of people for establishment of
relations among them.
 Behaviour they possess could be
modified by interactions.
 All such procedures could have
impact on the society either in
positive or negative way.

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 Freedom is provided to the patients and safety is ensured so that
they could be kept safe. It also benefits in formation of the lives of
clients.
 When people are compatible with one another, it becomes easy to
handle things and as a result they also spend time with one another
which makes them learn new things.
 Social procedures are beneficial in handling conflicts among the
members.

Evaluation of effectiveness of inter-
professional working
 In order to ensure effective delivery
of services it is required to have
proper coordination among
organisation and working
professionals.
 It is also required to have good
relationship among stakeholders and
other ventures who are working on
voluntarily groundwork.