Analysis of Health and Social Care Needs and Available Services

This report provides a detailed analysis of health and social care needs, focusing on the concepts of health, disability, illness, and behavior within the context of the UK's National Health Service (NHS). It examines the care needs of individuals with specific requirements, considering how perceptions of t...Read More

Understanding Specific Needs
in Health and Social Care

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Main body...................................................................................................................................1
1.1 Analyse concepts of health, disability, illness and behaviour in relation to users of health
and social care services...............................................................................................................1
1.2 and 2.1 Analyse the care needs of individuals with specific needs and also assess how
perceptions of specific needs have changed over time...............................................................2
2.3 Describe the services available in UK for individuals with specific needs.........................3
2.2 and 1.3 Explain the identified current systems for supporting individuals with care needs
and then analyse the impact of legislation, social policy, society and culture on the ways that
services........................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Everyone has specific needs that are required to be fulfilled in order to maintain a good
will and well-being of the people in society. Especially, in health and social care sector, the
needs of clients or patients are required to be fulfilled in a better way that will help in better
management of operations which will support in suitable rise in wellness of people (Stewart and
Wild, 2017). For the report, NHS is taken as the organisation of context and various cases
indicating the importance of wellness is been inducted. Report will lay emphasis on the concept
of health and illness, behaviour and disability in health and social care. The care of individual
needs and availability of various service is been analysed with current system for supporting
individuals and impact of legal measures on health and social care. Different concepts of
challenging behaviour and their impact on health and social care are evaluated in the report.
Also, different strategies are described for working with challenging behaviour. Service on local
level are identified and with approaches and the impact of potential developments are been
analysed (Glasby, 2017).
MAIN BODY
1.1 Analysing concepts of health, disability, illness and behaviour in relation to users of health
and social care services
Health is defined by WHO as the state of complete physical, mental and social well being
and not only the absence of any disease or illness. Disease and illness are the physical or
psychological disturbance that are been caused by many internal or external factors. Many times
a cause of disease cannot be diagnosed as the reason for it is caused by social factors.
Illness in behaviour implies to the manner a pererson react to another person or factor. It
helps in monitor their physical attributes and interpret the symptoms to treat it using proper
health and social care system.
Other than this, the Equality Act 2010 defines disability as the physical, mental or
psychological impairments that have the considerable impact on individual's ability to perform
on a daily basis. As per WHO, it is a complex situation which reflects society's attitude towards
an individuals physical or mental condition. It has two models: medical and social model. The
medical model involves the condition when the person is been disabled by its own impairments.
On the other hand, the social model is based on perception of society towards a person with
disability, it helps in removal of barriers to make the person independent and equal in society.
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Health and social well-being is the concept very important and necessary for the
individuals that are to be followed in the society. In the recent time, however the viewpoints
related to health and disability is been changed in a very effective and efficient manner. Earlier,
perception about need of health and social care sector is considered in case of emergency and
requirements. But, nowadays, people prefer services for regular routine check-up. People have
grown aware about fitness in their personal level as well as about the surroundings (Green and
Thorogood, 2018). This helped a social worker and a GP to identify the bruises marks and
injuries on Baby P, supporting his safeguarding for a limited period. This helped in improving
his care measures and prevent the baby from further mutilation. The abnormal mutilation mark
showcase rude and non-supportive behaviour towards child and also indicate symptoms of
mental illness like hitting baby syndrome which is harmful and needed to be diagnosed and
treated well. Baby Peter had faced a great deal of torture from his mother's boyfriend.
The councils and other governing bodies will look after the better handling of different
operations that will lay a deep impact on the operations which will help in effective rise in
capability and functionality of a health and social care organisation like NHS. This will help in
taking in consideration different issues and problems that are faced by an individual due to an
illness and in appropriate behaviour from their close ones and people around them which
deteriorate their health condition and social wellness. Thus, in this case, organisations have to
look after the better management of care measures to understand and fulfil their need and
demands. This will help the firm to ensure their functioning and come up with suitable steps to
meet special requirements of people (DePoy and Gitlin, 2015).
1.2 and 2.1 Analyse the care needs of individuals with specific needs and also assess how
perceptions of specific needs have changed over time.
Perception is the development of mindset and attitude towards and person place or
situation. The perception for disability is deeply influenced by the communities, environment
and culture it sustains. The Darwin's theory of natural selection suggest that the individual which
are disabled to cope up with their surrounding situations are trend to get extinct. In earlier days,
people used to be reluctant to interact with people having disabilities. While on other hand, now
the time is been changing and people or the society as whole is accepting people with disability.
However, they are required to find proper measure to remove these barriers associated with
perception towards disability.
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The assessment of care needs is very important for safeguarding measures of an
organisation. The health and social care institution and their workers have to work specifically in
a better way to handle the cases like baby P or that of HL. In former case, institution was unable
to forge any legal action against parents of baby P even after observing presence of abuse and
mistreatment over him. While, in later case, health and social care institution misused and
mislead Mr. and Mrs. E and had an ill behaviour with HL. Hence, in such situation, better
assessment of understanding needs is necessary as in both the cases, concerning party is unable
to communicate and explain their requirements. Baby P was an 8 months infant while HL
suffered with autism, causing him unable to speak. In earlier scenario, people find it difficult to
tackle such situations and thus, there was a mayhem causing severe consequence. However, in
the present era, with the spreading of awareness about various illness and their assimilation
measures, now people have become more concerning about fulfilment of the health and social
care needs in a better way (Aveyard, 2014).
There are several factors that states that the need is been emerged over the time. Various
factors like Maslow's hierarchy of needs has considered many factors like physical needs,
behavioural need sand psychological needs including love, self esteem etc. Some times, the
individual like Baby P require specific care as he has not reached on a stage where he/she can
convey need on its own. Thus, this give importance to the role played the care givers and care
tackers at a health and social setting.
Other than this, it will help in better management of challenges that will support in
coming up with a better outcome for problem or issue that occurs in health and social care
setting. This will also involve the better governmental support that will help in effective increase
in capability which will improve operations of their institution in a better way. Other than this,
there are many operations which will aid in suitable rise in overall operational capability of
company. The assessment of care needs is also necessary for health and social care employees to
develop an insight and knowledge that will support in better rise ineffectiveness of the
operational capability which will help in effective improvement in their service quality and
providing of a good quality product and services to their clients and patients.
Nowadays, people have in-depth understanding of different operations and preventive measures
that will help them to meet requirements of users in a better way. Although, with passage of
time, challenges have increased in a very new way, but general awareness among people and
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health and social care workers. They will look after the suitable measures and handle a wide
range of operations that will help in effective rise in capability and effectiveness of the
operations. This will help in better management of challenges caused by the defrauding
behaviour towards someone and being reluctant toward the rudiment necessities of an individual.
It requires a patience full approach to assess, evaluate and come up with a prompt solution to an
issue faced by people in a health and social care setting (Bowling, 2014).
Although with the passage of time, the challenges have increased in a very new way, but
the general awareness among people and health and social care workers. They will look after the
suitable measures and handle a wide range of operations that will help in effective rise in
capability and effectiveness of the operations. This will help in better management of challenges
caused by the defrauding behaviour towards someone and being reluctant toward the rudiment
necessities of an individual. It requires a patience full approach to assess, evaluate and come up
with a prompt solution to an issue faced by people in a health and social care setting. Other than
this, the improvement in the functionality will help in suitable rise in operational capability of a
firm that will support a better rise in functional structure and development of health and social
care company. Also, the organisation has seen a very positive increment in operational
functioning of the firm. This will help in suitable improving of various functions that will
enhance the condition of patients like Baby P and HL, who are unable to convey their
requirements to their care takers or other people. Thus, the employee's have to see through the
better management of operations that will support a good rise in functional capability of health
and social care home which will improve the better development of innovative products and
services for the patients (Mirowsky, 2017).
2.3 Describe the services available in UK for individuals with specific needs.
In the social set up of UK, a wide range of health and social care measures are been taken
by the organisation that will help in suitable increase in operational capabilities of the
organisation. They will see through different measures, which improve the bonding with the
patients and gain an understanding of patients need and requirements in a better way for a good
understanding of different operations that are been developed by a health and social care firm to
meet the operational capabilities of institution. It will help the firm to safeguard the rights that
will help in better rise in capability and coming up with innovative solutions to the problems
faced by a patient or a client to meet their needs (Lewis, 2015).
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NHS provide a good and better control of the operations that will help in better handling
of operation which are been taken in consideration by the organisation in a better way. This will
help the organisation to handle a wide range of measures that will help the health and social care
firm to improve their service quality. This will also help in suitable rise in functional capability
of the organisation that will support a good development of innovative products and services.
Other than this, the firm provide a good transportation services to their patients and
clients which will help in improving of high quality of services and better accessing of client to
health and social care home. Also, proper medication, and nursing service is been given to the
needy and requiring people, either free of cost or on nominal charges.
2.2 and 1.3 Explain the identified current systems for supporting individuals with care needs and
then analyse the impact of legislation, social policy, society and culture on the ways that
services.
The current system is although good in meeting the operational requirements of the
organisation, still don't have the efficiency of that level, which will allow the firm like NHS to
meet the functional requirements in a better way. This helps in suitable rise in operational
capacity of a firm. Besides this the latest technology and testing measures are been followed that
will help a health and social care employees, that will help in suitable rise in its efficiency. Other
than this, to handle the cases like patients with special mental needs like HL. The NHS will see
through in providing its employee's with a specific training that will help them to cater the
requirement of autistic patients in a much better way (Beard and Bloom, 2015).
The equality act 2010 will guide the local authorities to have the suitable system in place.
The local authorities are been supported by government in order to gain a proper output on care
services and thus prevent any sort of harm to a child like in case of Baby P. his death showcases
the incompetency of the health and social firm to save the child's life. Also, it will help in
avoiding absence of the health and social care services will lead to the identification of proper
measures to handle such individual cases.
For the cases like Baby P, specialised child care zone and foster parents or homes are
been developed by local authority and health and social care bodies, with rise in functional
capability of an organisation. This will ensure the better upbringing ad safeguarding of a child
and prevent any sort of illegal behaviour or abuse. Such measures are highly beneficial that help
in better rise in satisfaction and comfort level of the patients and clients. Also, NHS includes and
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possess a better emergency management system that will help in better rise in functional
capabilities of the organisation that will help in suitable increment in the operational capacity ad
meeting of functional requirements of the organisation in a better way.
Other than this, various legal operations and policies are been utilized by local authority
and the health care firm like NHS, which will help in better safeguarding and involvement of the
practices in the firm. Some major legal operations that are been taken in consideration are:
 Health and social care act, 2012: It involves the better usage of measures and policies to
provide the good quality health and social care services to everyone in need. This, will
help in setting up of various guidelines that will help in suitable rise in capability of
organisation and ensures a smooth and fair distribution of different resources that are
been used in health and social care service.
 National health service act, 2006: This legal policy ensures that proper health care
services, regardless to the diseases, patients and their economic background is been used
to have a better share in operational and financial improvement in the firms and thus will
help in suitable increasing in functioning of the operation in a better way. This will also
help in suitable allocation of funding and services that I been allocated by the
organisation and thus will help in better rise in functional capability of the organisation
(Thompson, 2015).
 The community care (Direct payment) act 1996: it allows the people with disabilities
to receipt their community care services in order to receive money for buying their own
services. It helps the individual to get a control over the services they receive and offer a
greater choice fr the people with learning disability.
 The Disability discrimination Act 1995: it helps to prevent the discrimination against
the people with disability. It prevents the denial of services and guide the services
providers to make suitable adjustments so that the people with disability can use their
services. Besides this, it helps the individual to take the appropriate legal actions against
the discrimination. However, the major drawback it posses is that certain extent of age
discrimination for children's in schools in certain cases.
The socio cultural factors also plays a very crucial role in handling of wide range of
operation that will impact health and social care services. The positive ad supportive mind set of
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the people, health and social care and medical staff, family and friends help in suitable rise in
functionality will help in suitable handling of wide range of operation that will help in better
growth and implementation of services in a better way. Also, it helps the firm to meet
requirements of their patients and clients.
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