Evaluating Health and Social Care Practice Principles: Unit 2 Report

This report delves into the principles of health and social care practice, examining the implementation of policies, legislation, and regulations to ensure quality service delivery. It covers the importance of adhering to rules, maintaining client confidentiality, and ensuring safety precautions in healthcare settings. The report further explores local policies and procedures, emphasizing the need for clarity, coordination with national policies, and adaptability to future requirements. Additionally, it evaluates the effectiveness of implemented policies and regulations within organizations, highlighting the significance of compliance and employee training. The report also discusses theories underpinning health and social practice, such as theories that highlight the importance of healthy lifestyles and meeting the needs of individuals, and the impact of social processes on users of social and health care services. Finally, it evaluates the effectiveness of inter-professional working in providing comprehensive care, emphasizing cooperation and teamwork among healthcare providers.

Principles of Health and Social
Care Practice. Unit 2
PART 2

2.1 implementation of policies, legislation and
regulation to provide health care and social services
• To provide best quality services to clients. It is important to follow all rules
and regulation mentioned under law.
• They are not allowed to reveal personal information of clients. Only selected
individuals has right to access data. According to Health regulation
(COSSH) service providers can chemicals that are mentioned under law.

Cont.
• Only authorized person has right to access chemicals. employees must
verify safety precautions. They are implemented to maintain safety of
individuals. Service providers must provide different warning signals.
Staff and workers should clean pathway of emergency exit. Employees are
given training to implement different rules and regulation. Working
according to law make working environment risk free.

2.2 local policies and procedures according to
policy requirement
• Policies must be easy to understand. This will improve efficiency of
policies and avoid confusions. Policy are faced on facts. National and
local policies will reflect culture. These policies are designed specifically.
strategies are critically planned and implemented to get effective output.

Cont.
• It is very important to have coordination between local and national
policies. If policies are simple and clear this will improve effectiveness. It is
not practically to implement same policies in different situations. These
policies are modified and change according to future requirements. These
modifications will improve quality of services. strategies make jobs simple
and easy. These policies look after comfort of employees. It is essential to
overview policies and laws. Monitoring of laws and regulations are duty of
employees. Lawmakers modify policy if required. Rules and regulation
must be regularly supervised

2.3 Evaluation of policy, legislation and
regulation implemented in organization
• Rules and regulation are important of organization. They provide basic
guidelines. It is mandatory for organization to follow all rules.
Organization perform according to these laws. Violation of any rule will
affect working environment of health care services. Policies and
procedure are formed according to law.

Cont.
• They can ask there supervisor if they have any confusions regarding
rules. They are obliged to follow every rule of organization. Supervisors
can take immediate step to punish employees that do not obey law. This
help in smooth functioning of business without any confusions and
conflicts

3.1 theories underpin health and social
practice
• Theories are required by health and care service providers. Individuals
perform events for growth and development. This theory focus on these
events. Healthy lifestyle play an important role in satisfying clients. This
theory posses that individual should be physically and mentally fit . They
make different plans and strategies to promote healthy lifestyle of individual

Cont.
• Every person has different needs and desire. Maslow hierarchy theory has
describe importance of social and health care needs. This theory suggest
to satisfy basic needs of individual. According to this theory if basic
needs are not satisfied, individual can not move further in hierarchy. This
theory is used for planning for health care services. This help in growth
and development of individuals. These services are very important and are
required at different levels. Services change according to age growth and
development.

3.2 Impact of social process on users of social
and health care services.
• Social process play an important role in society. Process are adapted according to
behavior and attitude of individuals. They have different reactions in various
situations. Situations are influenced by people behavior. People choose there lifestyle
according to actions. People have different opinions. Plans and strategies consider
social process. This ensure effectiveness of plans. Strategies are applied according to
people background and culture. They have different reactions in different situations

Cont.
• Social process are affected by individual behaviour and attitude. People
with similar nature form group. Individual believe that there culture is
superior. This can lead to discrimination in organisation. Care workers
prefer to serve there society first. All clients must be treated equally and
fairly. They should avoid discriminations between service users.

3.3 Evaluating effectiveness of inter
professional working
• To provide quality services health care service providers cooperate with
health care service receivers. They continuously stay connected in every
plan. Co-operation of efforts are known as inter-professional working