Report: Contemporary Issues in Health and Social Care Policy Analysis

This report delves into contemporary issues in health and social care, primarily focusing on the United Kingdom's policies and their impact. It examines the National Health Service (NHS) and its role in providing healthcare services, analyzing various policies related to drug pricing, and community health improvement. The report discusses the government's role in formulating and implementing health and social care policies, including the community health improvement process (CHIP), which aims to address health inequalities and enhance the standard of living. It also evaluates the advantages and disadvantages of these policies, proposes improvements, and reflects on past policies to provide a comprehensive overview of the current health and social care landscape.

Contemporary issues in
health and social care

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Heath and social care policy and their issues.........................................................................3
Discuss the proposal and improvement process which refers to changing in policy due to
providing welfare for society..................................................................................................5
Critique the policies & what is good and bad about the policies what can be done to develop
policy in dealing Reflecting on the previous policies............................................................8
Public cycle model of policy change their is a need for a new policy...................................9
CONCLUSION.............................................................................................................................10
REFERNCING..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Contemporary issues on health care is concept which refers to society faces so many issues
regarding health so government imposed various policies and developing new strategies in order
to minimizing this impact of health issues. It includes various tools and techniques used by
health care units which result as minimizing the impact on health. The report about National
Health Services which refers to it is organisation they are providing various health services for
society in order to providing best services for society (Ahmed-Gamgum, 2018). The paper
consists regarding various policies which are imposed by government for beneficial of society as
well as evaluate various key health issues in order to minimizing so utilising various tools and
techniques. It includes ample numbers of advantages and disadvantages of this policy. In
addition to this, it involves various changes in policy to reducing health issues which result as
providing best health care services for society.
MAIN BODY
Heath and social care policy and their issues.
In present context, it includes government imposed various health & care social policy in
order to prevention various health diseases so accordingly they formulated new policy which
providing benefits to its society and community. It is process which government implement
various policies for the community in order to they sustain and enhancing standard of living. In
context of organisation, it includes they are providing comprehensive health care in order to
across the country. It is sound structure which refers to various medical care units such as
primary care, hospitals and community health care. NHS is one the leading institution and
organisation in United Kingdom which providing various benefits for the society because they
are run the ample numbers of health units which providing various services for community. It
includes their political condition strong so they are implemented various policy regarding health
and social care for society which result as smoothly conducting their business operations
(Glasby, 2017). It considered policy regarding drug issues because for example vulnerable adults
are affect this drug issues in order to government imposed this policy which are discussed below.
Prescription drug pricing
It includes United Kingdom government imposed this policy for drug dictator in border to they
are not goof for society and community so government formulated this policy for society which

result as beneficial for that. It involves most of the drug dictator most of youth and adult so they
arise issue so is is big controversial issue. It involves they are implement various measures
which are strictly followed by legislation in order to The Food and drug Administration
Reauthorization Act of 2017 (Grech, 2018). In context of NHS, it is organisation which is
situated in United Kingdom and it is majorly for society in order to providing various services
for society such as primary care, hospitals, community health care and many more. Primary
health café system is authority for government which refers to providing various health facilities
such as general practitioners or family doctors as well as providing preventive and curative care
for society. It also providing consulting facility regarding health issues for frees so they are
providing best services for community. For example they are providing various benefits for
society such as providing free medicine and pharmaceuticals services for community such as
those individual age 16, past retirement, and low level income group. Department of health in
England is administration health department of UK which are providing ample numbers of
benefit for society such as it includes they are four directors who are responsible to managing
functions and operation of organisation and providing best services for society as well as they
are formulated new policies for drugs. 340B drug pricing program which are launched by
government in order to providing prevention from drug issue. It includes Health Resources and
Service Administration regularity authority program. It involves they are face problem of opioid
in order to misuse and addiction which refers to ample numbers of Americans die from an opioid
overdose each day. It considered as the comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act ( CARA)
which are providing supplements opioid and providing prevention due to treatments activities as
well as improving prescription drug monitoring, delivering training programme because they
providing best solution for this. It involves various issues such as drug addiction so various
health services programme providing education programmes in order to strengthening
requirement due to drug monitoring programs. They providing various benefits for society and
community such as The ministry of health which are situated in 1919 UK which refers to
launching various policies for society and community so them getting beneficial for them. It is
process which is taking ample numbers of measures such as powers and duties in order to divide
in each health care department. It includes various health care services providing by government,
national health insurance commission of England, Privy Council, The home office and the board
of education (Jupp, 2016). The main aim of this policy to serves the best medical and health care

facility for community in order to medical and health function with the coordination of
supervision and local bodies. It includes government imposed various services for community
and serves the best solution which helps to launching various programmes in order to get work
for welfare for society and community (Kitchiner, 2017). It involves various act and provision
which are imposed by UK government in order to delivering various facility and services such as
National health insurance Act 1911 so cover various health issues.
Therefore, it includes health and social care policy which refers to various issues on that
basis government imposed various act and provision for society and community which refers to
deliver best health and care solution as well as prevention. Government imposed various
programmes from educate the society regarding the drug issue and concern because ample
numbers of Americans face this problems and issues.
Discuss the proposal and improvement process which refers to changing in policy due to
providing welfare for society.
Community health improvement process:
The United Kingdom has many changes in policy due to society and community faces
ample numbers of issues so National health service are also recommended in order to various
changes and developing new strategies because they are providing best solution for society and
community. It includes ample numbers of factors which are plays vital role so in order to
fulfilling the health and social care need. It involves government and health care sector
developing various improvement for society such as determining resources and asset in order to
promoting health and implementation in policy. It includes health care sector come with the new
proposal such as community health improvement frame work which refers to monitoring
performance and activities in order to providing best solution for society and community. It
includes development health improvement programmes due to various circumstances such as
health concern, resources, capacities, social and political approaches. The government of UK
imposed this programme which refers to committee proposes a community health improvement
programmes (CHIP) (Olusoga, 2019). It involves they are proper monitoring and controlling
which refers to developing provision specific health concern. It includes they are proper
implementation and development goals, objectives on that basis planned, operate, measure and
action. It is biggest policy which helps to reducing health inequalities and unfair differences in
health are minimizing in order to group of communities. It includes they are various health

issues arise from genetics, lifestyle and health care and they are impact on social, economic and
physical. It includes various circumstances which arises these health care issues such as impact
on living and health of individuals. It refers to an implementation cycle in order to analysing
health issue and resources. It includes various tools and techniques which refer to utilising in
order to reducing the health issues such as health life expectancy. It includes various measures
such as tools and data assessing health inequalities, effectiveness of actions and interventions
and cost effectiveness. It is framework or model which helps to minimizing health care issues
which result as beneficial for society as well as enhancing standard of living it is tools which
most of health care institution effectively implementing in order to minimized various health
issues such as heart disease, mortality, seasonal excess death and chronic debt (Manoli, 2018).
The fist factor refers to tools and data assessing health inequalities which refers to measures the
health profiles because it is responsibility of local bodies and government. In context of NHS, it
is effectively adapting this policy because they help to minimizing the issues if health which are
faced by the individual and society. It majorly includes various factors such as standard of living,
lifestyle, living and working conditions and social circumstances. It includes this policy because
it helps to reducing the health and social care issues. It refers to developing local commissioners
and developing effective network so they work with different sector and fulfil the requirement of
local communities. It is developing effective integrated system which refers to survive and
sustainability of health care and services. It is tool and techniques which refer to they are
focusing on positive health outcomes in order to reducing health issues and it is impact on health
life expectancy. It involves various parameters which refer to homelessness, fuel poverty,
smoking, mortality, cardiovascular diseases and infant mortality rate. The new government
imposed various measures in order to transformation as well as sustained for longer period of
time. It includes various they are authority for NHS so they providing various policy
implemented in order to get the benefits for society and community. It involves government
making new plan such as improving organisational structure as well as changes in health care
units in order to developing as well as coordinating with other programmes housing,
employments, education and many others (Moss, 2017). Government feel that absence of quality
standard so they establishing new institution in order to improving in service quality so they
developing various policy such as implement in systematically which refers to quality medicine
are delivered in hospital and clinic. It includes monitoring staff performance as well as assigned

the senior specialist which serves the best service for society and community. It involves they
are collaborating with commission in order to providing various training for health professionals.
It involves government established the special health care unit for society and general public. It
involves organisation introduced various insurance plan which are beneficial for society and
community (Grech, 2018). It is policy which imposed by government in order to reducing this
health issues because the main problems arises with the measurable change due to challenging in
order to various ranges of approaches, tools and techniques which are utilising due to
minimizing this health care issues.
The community health improvement process

It is model or framework which are addressing various health issues and concern so on that basis
make changes and as well as analysed the various factors which are influencing in health issues
so properly examined the factors which are affect them and accordingly making changes. For
example. It includes immunizations means infectious diseases and drugs which are infected
children as well as vulnerable adults in order to taking overdose. It includes providing vaccines
for society for prevention from such types of diseases (Moss, 2017). It includes CHIP is local
and state public health agency which are developing various proposal for different policy in
order to reducing issues of health and social care policy. It also providing best treatment for the
society because they are reforms policy and it is beneficial for society as well as positive
outcomes.
Critique the policies & what is good and bad about the policies what can be done to develop
policy in dealing Reflecting on the previous policies
It is necessary to impellent innovative policies according to rules which are implemented
by government of UK. In addition to this, the management team of NHS focuses on considered
what is considered as good or bad about policies for smooth running of organisation in future
period of time. There are various advantages as well as disadvantage related to developing policy
which is adopted by firm that is going to be mentioned below:
Advantages
Access to a wide variety of jobs: Herein, the NHS focuses on providing superior
quality of job to individual person in order to increase employment during particular phase of
time period. In context of NHS, the advantages of developing policy is to increase employment
opportunity for individual person that help in conducting different task and operation related to
organisation in an appropriate manner. . The focus is on maintaining long term relationship with
its user in order to provide superior quality services to them. Therefore, it is necessary to
maintain policy that is advantageous for company in conduct their operation and achieving
competitive advantage over rivalries and Marketplace. It is also helpful in providing appropriate
services to its user during particular phase of time period (Burnell, Crossland and Greenberg,
2017).
Reassurance that working with quality suppler: In order to develop a policy, it is
helpful for NHS to re-assurance that that the individual person perform their work with a quality

supplier in order to provide different kind of services in an appropriate manner. The focus is on
maintaining long term relationship with its user in order to provide superior quality services to
them. Therefore, it is necessary to maintain policy that is advantageous for company in conduct
their operation and achieving competitive advantage over rivalries and Marketplace. It is also
helpful in providing appropriate services to its user during particular phase of time period
(Howard and Hatfield, 2018).
In addition to this, there are some disadvantages of developing policies that is going to
be mentioned below:
Potentially lower pay rates: while performing work, according to mentioned policy it
provide low pay rate to the individual person during particular phase of time period. Therefore, it
is necessary for individual person, while developing policy to assess pay rate during particular
phase of time period. In addition to this, it is determined as disadvantages for organisation in
order to follow policy during the particular phase of time period. It demotivate the individual
person to perform their work in an appropriate manner.
Robust compliance as well as pre-employment checks is other disadvantage which is
faced by the business organisation in order to conduct different task in an appropriate way.
While developing policies determined as a time-consuming process and also imposes high cost
that is impose negative impact on organisation.
Therefore, there are developing policies impose positive as well as negative impact on
success and growth of organisation. In context of NHS, the management team focuses on
providing effective services to individual person by considering both good as well as bad effects.
Public cycle model of policy change their is a need for a new policy
In context of public cycle model related to policy change which is adopted b y NHS. There
are five steps of this model is agenda setting, formulate policy, adoption as well as
implementation, execution, evaluation and support maintenance that is going to be mentioned
below:
Agenda setting: These levels involve new issue as well as problem that needed
government action. In addition to this, if multiple area is assessed regarding particular issue so
that the focus is on only priority. Therefore, it is necessary for NHS to set the agenda in order to
assess the innovative issues which is given by government in order to form a policy during

particular phase of time period. For example foresight study involves growing population as well
as enhancing conception in energy that needed and enhance in production of energy. In addition
to this there is a requirement to decrease emission as well as change in climate that leads to
policy maker deciding for enhancing production related to solar panel and its user (Sharma and
Seshadri, 2020).
Formulation: this signifies a structure related to policy in which they focus is on
accomplishing goals as well as objective in timely manner. For example, if the government
provide tax break to implement renewable energy, than they provide individual a subsidy to
assess effect of these action in NHS during particular phase of time period. In addition to this,
once the government approved then it is necessary to adopt policy in an appropriate manner by
follow on rules and regulation which is mentioned in policy of government.
Implementation: Herein, the business organisation focuses on implementing knowledge
or increasing knowledge regarding policy that help in monitoring and controlling different
activities during particular phase of time period.
Adoption: Herein, the management team of analysis focuses on appropriateness and
success related to policy that imposes direct effect on organisation. In addition to this, it is
necessary for a company to consider or evaluate the policy for increasing profit margin as well
as productivity of organisation in future period of time.
Support and maintenance: herein, their focus is on taking feedback from individual
person in order to handle the policy and conduct different task in an appropriate manner. It is
also helpful in deciding whether it is necessary to change the policy or bring new policy or
focuses on using existing policies.
Therefore, it is important to bring changes in policies for conducting different task and
activities in an appropriate manner. Therefore, it is necessary for business organisation to
perform various activities in proper manner (Coughlan and Cronin, 2016)
CONCLUSION
From the above report it has been concluded that, it includes contemporary health issues is
wider and border concept so accordingly United Kingdom imposed various health and social
policy in order to minimizing health issues which are beneficial for society. There are ample
numbers of provision which are regulated by government because providing best health services
for community. It includes various policies which are imposed by government and NHS for

society in order to welfare as well as there are ample numbers of policy which are help to
reducing the health care issues. In addition to this, it involves various tools and techniques
utilising by health care unit due to provide various services for society. Along with, it includes
change policy cycle which helps to reducing the impact of health issues as well as advantages
and disadvantages of health care policy which are regulated by government.