Applying Principles of Health and Social Care Practice in Care Homes

This report explores the principles underpinning health and social care practice, focusing on their application within East and West Care Home. It examines the impact of social processes on service users, the effectiveness of interprofessional working, and the implementation of relevant policies, legislation, regulations, and codes of practice. The report highlights the importance of humanistic theory in providing quality care and emphasizes how social processes enhance service delivery knowledge. It further discusses the benefits and challenges of interprofessional collaboration, advocating for its implementation to improve organizational functioning. The significance of policies and codes of practice in shaping a positive cultural background and ensuring awareness of rights for both service users and providers is also addressed. The report concludes by underscoring the importance of national policies in enriching the care home's culture and fostering trust among service users through equal opportunities and safety measures. References to relevant academic sources are provided to support the analysis and recommendations.

Principles of health and social care
practice

Table of contents
• Slide 3- Theories that underpin health and social care practice
• Slide 4- Impact of social processes on users of health and
social care services
• Slide 5- Effectiveness of inter professional working
• Slide 6- Implementation of policies, legislation, regulations and
codes of practice
• Slide 7- National and policy requirements
• Slide 8- Impact of policy, legislation, regulations, and codes of
practice
• Slide 9 - Reference

Theories that underpin health and social
care practice
• Some theories should be followed to provide
support to the residents of East and West Care
Home.
• The humanistic theory stresses on the needs and
requirements of the users of health care home
•
Thus, based on learning the above theories, the
managers can provide the best quality of services
to the clients and the best care to the residents.

Impact of social processes on users of health
and social care services
• The social processes have a great impact on
the cares and services delivered to the service
users in East and West Care Home
• . Moreover, through social process, the
knowledge of service in the health and social
care centers in the entire society of the United
Kingdom will increase.

Effectiveness of inter professional working
• Inter professional working or collaborative work setting in a
healthy and social care sector is an improved strategy that has
been implemented by the government and the private and
public health centre in order to provide maximum output
• There has been serious criticism and speculation in the East &
West Care Home situated in London on the functioning and
processes of the organization
• The East & West Care Home needs to implement the ideas and
strategies of inter professional work setting because in the
recent past it has been observed there has been positive
impact of the strategy of collaboration

Implementation of policies, legislation,
regulations and codes of practice
• The policies for implementation, legislation, and the
codes of practice play a very important role in making a
cultural background in any health and social care
organization
• The implementation of the above policies and the
knowledge of codes of practice will develop the efficiency
and competency of the employees of the care home
• The implementation of the policies, regulations and codes
of practice will make both the service users and service
providers aware of their rights in the society.

National and policy requirements
• According to the present situation, the policies that should
be developed and implemented in East and West Care
home will provide great standards to its residents
• Care Home so that the pioneers and employees of the care
home can be aware of the challenges that can be met with
in case when the employees do not comply with the
standards of the conduct
• Home and the same should be introduced to all the
employees and service users. The national policies should
be designed in such a way that it should enrich the culture
of the care home.

Impact of policy, legislation, regulations,
and codes of practice
• The policy, legislation and the codes of practice
have a great impact on the practices of the East
and West Care Home in London
• The codes of practices and legislations will build
a trust in the minds of the service users who are
taking service in East and West Care Home
• Thus, equal opportunities and safety will be
provided to the residents of East and West Care
Home.

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