Analysis of Health and Social Care Policies and Practices Report

This report provides an overview of health and social care practices, focusing on a case study of the East and West Care Home. The report begins by outlining the implementation of relevant policies, legislation, regulations, and codes of practice, including guidelines related to agents, appointees, safety laws, and the Court of Protection. It then explores how local policies and procedures should align with national policy requirements, emphasizing the significance of care homes in meeting the health, care, and nutrition needs of individuals. The report further analyzes the impact of these policies on organizational practices, such as maintaining health and nutrition, hygiene, and efficient administration. It also delves into the theoretical underpinnings of health and social care practices, including values, ethics, discriminatory approaches, and social learning. The report examines how social processes impact users of health and social care services, including issues such as marginalization, isolation, and exclusion, and concludes by discussing the effectiveness of interpersonal working within the care setting. The report emphasizes the importance of staff responsibilities in upholding care standards.

Principles of Health and Social Care Practice

INTRODUCTION
Health and Social Care are the units that works to provide services to
the patients in order to ensure their social well being, personal care,
protection, safety and security. The main motive of such organization is
to lay emphasis upon the welfare and well being of their visitors and
patients. These organisations do not work upon making and regulating
profits and other benefits for them, their main focus is upon
safeguarding the service users. East and West Care Home is situated in
London and caters to care needs of vulnerable people. But the care
home is facing some serious troubles.

2.1 Implementation of policies, legislation, regulation and
codes of practice.
GUIDELINES :
Agents and Appointees
Safety Laws
Trusts
Court of Protection

2.2 How local policies and procedures can be developed in
accordance with national and policy requirements.
 The policies and procedures in the home care for the elderly have to be as per the
requirements and norms of the national policy requirements.
 It is important to appoint family members or relatives as the agent.
 It provides assurance regarding the life and security of old age people and provide
motivation to them.

Continued.
The main significance of care home is that they lay emphasis upon fulfilling three
basic requirements of the individuals:
Health
Care
Nutrition

2.3 Impact of policy, legislation, regulation and codes of
practice on organisational policy and practice.
 Optimum levels of health and nutrition are maintained at the home care.
 Best possible hygiene facilities are maintained.
 Regular health camps are being conducted.
 Administration of the facility have become more efficient
 All the dues from the relatives or agents of the elderly people have been cleared.

3.1 Theories that can be used to underpin health and social
care practices.
Values and Ethics
Discriminatory Approach
Automatic Selection
Social Learning

Continued.
Values and Ethics: The person who is present in this world since last 5-6 decades has
governed his life based upon certain set of ethics and values. In some cases, it
becomes very difficult for them to adopt changes that occurred in their lives.
Discriminatory Approach: There are some situations where discrimination takes
place at such health centres.
Automatic Selection: There are times when there is a possibility of conflict in the
choice of a particular activity by the attendant or by the patient.
Social Learning: It is the place where maximum time is being spend by the old
people and they learn and notice so many things from one another.

3.2 Analyse how social processes impact on users of health
and social care services
People in the social care home tend to find other people compatible with them in the
facility and prefer spending maximum time with them as they like each other’s
company and cherish their friendships. As per the given scenario The main issue that
has been seen in East and West Care Home is low ethics and negligence of the staff
members and employees towards their patients.

Understanding the social procedures
This is to understand the concept of social procedures that are
fundamental in terms of interacting with one another to further build
effective social relationships. Although, its definition tends to vary
from person to person where various academic researchers have
stated it to have a distinct set of consideration. It thereby involves a
procedure which consists of several number of constituents, as stated
below-
• Series of the events
• Repetition of the events
• Relationship among the events
• Continuity of the events
• Special outcomes

Different types of social procedures and
their impact
The types are as referred below-
• Marginalization
• Isolation
• Exclusion

Marginalization
• It is referred to be a social procedure, in whose
accordance, a large set of people are excluded
from the society.
• As a result, to which, they are not allowed to make
meaningful participation in certain activities.
• Mostly, the people on the basis of marginalization
are treated on the basis of their age, gender and
race, etc.

Isolation
• Also being termed as a state of social isolation, in
this, people are known to interact less with others.
• This is in turn associated with a greater risk of
death in elder people who consider themselves
lonely.

Exclusion
• It also being termed as social exclusion is referred to
be a complex and multidimensional procedure.
• This includes deficit accessibility of resources with
no or very less rights of the individuals.
• It also eliminates the individual from participating in
normal activities in any area where they together
gets unable to take part in normal relationships.
• This in turn impacts the quality, unity as well as
equity of the society as a unit.

3.3 Effectiveness of interpersonal working
Inter-professional working can be defined as a group of individuals that belong to
different discipline and working skills within the same institution. They interact with
each other in order to share his or her knowledge and get the best results, it is
considered as the best strategy.

CONCLUSION
From this, we can conclude that it is very essential for the
members of East and West Care Home to lay emphasis upon
their services and responsibilities in order to meet the desired
and expected standards of the care unit.

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