HNC/HND Health and Social Care Management: Practice Principles Report

This report provides an overview of the principles of health and social care practice, focusing on the implementation of policies, legislation, regulations, and codes of practice within the context of East and West health and social care in London, UK. It examines how these elements ensure quality care, protect service users, and promote ethical conduct, referencing the Health and Work Safety Act 1974. The report delves into local and national policies, emphasizing their synchronization and adaptability to different organizational cultures. It explores the impact of these policies on organizational policy and practice, including the creation of a safe and ethical working environment. Furthermore, the report discusses various theories supporting health and social care, such as behavioral, cognitive, and humanistic theories, and analyzes the impact of social processes like media, social class, and peer groups on service users. The effectiveness of inter-professional working in health and social care is also addressed, highlighting its importance in providing comprehensive support and reducing long-term care moves, and the importance of collaborative practices.

Health and Social Care Management
Principles of Health and Social Care Practice

2.1. Implementation of policies, legislation, regulations and
codes of practices in health and social care
 For ensuring the best quality care services to the users in health and social care
practices, implementing certain policies, regulations, legislation and codes of
conduct are necessary. East and West health and social care London, UK
follows these policies and procedures to protect their employees or clients
according to the Health and work safety act 1974.
 The act safeguards and reforms laws associated with care and support for
adults, support caretakers and provides policies that governs the health and
social care setting. The code of conduct provides clear set of standards which
are essential to protect the people using health and care services, public and
others from dangers or harm. It promotes and upholds privacy, dignity, rights
and well being of people using these services or practices.

2.2. Local policies and procedures developing in accordance with national and
policy requirements
 National policies have a major impact on the resourcing of health care services
settings as they set several performance indicators and evaluation criteria.
Local policies show a little scope and reflects the culture of local areas. To get
the effective result, these policies and procedures are studied critically,
carefully planned and strategically implemented.
 The local and national policies must be synchronized and correlated to avoid
imperfection or mistakes. The diversity of different organizations makes the
policies not suitable for all so it needs to be altered or modified accordingly
for improving quality of care and services. These flexible system and policies
reflecting culture makes employees eager to follow rules and regulations if the
jobs are easy or comfortable.

2.3. Impact of policy, legislation, regulation and codes of practice on
organizational policy and practice
The policies of East and West health and social care London, UK, legislation, regulations, rules and code of
practice have essential contributions to the health and social care services. They provide guidelines to follow
for undergoing practices that cares for individuals. Several acts like Equality, Safeguarding and human rights
etc. supports the organization’s policies and keep looking for new legislation and laws to be updated. The
effect of these practices includes:
Proper, organized and ethical working environment for service users and workers
Smooth running of the organization without serious conflicts by help of organizational policies.
Helps employees respect laws and work accordingly.
Code of practices help in protection if individuals with quality services.

3.1. Theories supporting health and social care practice
Several theories like behavioral, cognitive, operant, psychodynamic, humanistic, learning and social directs all
practices of East and West health and social care London, UK. Delivering care services on the basis of these
theories guides future health and social care research. Humanistic theory emphasizes on needs of the
individual to design or frame care services, protection of client’s individual rights, dignity etc. Cognitive
theory focuses on the relationship between thoughts, feelings and behaviors of the clients. Regarding health
and social care the theory of social learning theory has a great importance which highlights importance of
learning through modeling and observation.

3.2 How social processes impact on users of health and social care services
It can be said that social process has an impact on health and social care users as well as service providers.
Processes that lead to marginalization, isolation and exclusion for an example, poverty, unemployment, poor
health, disablement, lack of education and other sources of disadvantage can have a negative impact on the
demand for health and social care services.
Media: Users are affected by the information and opinions communicated by media. This will include radio,
TV, newspaper, advertisement and poster etc. there are both positive and negative impact of media social
process on users of East and West.
Social class: Social class is determined by occupation that people from higher class enjoyed health and care
services longer than people who have low level of sociality. Users of low level social class live in poor
environment.
Peer groups: People of your own age also affect development in the adolescent stage of life. Smoking is one
of the example of peer group influences.

3.3 Effectiveness of inter-professional working.
 Health and social care services in UK advocate inter-professional working in
order to provide support to people with older age with complex and different
requirements.
 Inter-professional working is important for the development in health and
social care services in order to provide support and reduce long term care
moves which consumes time.
 IPE also emphasizes collaborative practices that aims to promote working
relationship between two or more than two health care business or
professionals effectively.

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