Law, Policy, and Ethical Practice in Healthcare Report

This report provides a comprehensive overview of the legal, policy, and ethical dimensions of health and social care. It begins by exploring how the legislature, executive, and judiciary establish legal and policy frameworks, detailing the roles of legislation, statutory guidance, and codes of practice. The report then examines ethical reforms, emphasizing values such as equality, fairness, quality, and respect in healthcare settings. Furthermore, it analyzes the impact of the national system of government on healthcare, including regulatory policies, codes of conduct, and the roles of various acts such as the Care Act and Mental Capacity Act. The report highlights the importance of ethical considerations in healthcare delivery, the role of government in shaping the healthcare landscape, and the significance of policies such as safeguarding and equality policies. Overall, the report underscores the intricate interplay of law, ethics, and policy in the provision of health and social care services.

Law Policy and Ethical Practice
in Healthcare

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1 ...........................................................................................................................................1
P 1 Legislature, executive and judiciary set legal policy in health and social care ...................1
P 2 features of legislation, Statutory guidance, code of practices ..............................................2
M 1 Ethics reform health, care and support services .................................................................4
D 1 National system of government to its effect on health care ................................................5
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Health and social care is the term that associates to services that are available from health
and societal care providers. It includes activities care services such as primary, secondary and
tertiary in public health. In order to that, it is combines factors of sociology, biology, law and
ethics. It can also refer to range of vocational and academic course in different level. It includes
provision of well being and societal work activities. This report will describe legislature and
judiciary set legal and policy landscape for health and social care practitioners. It will explain
features of legislation, statutory guidance and code of practices.
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TASK 1
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P 1 Legislature, executive and
judiciary set legal policy
in health and social care
Executive and judiciary set
many legal policies and
regulations in health and social
care. Regulation is simply way
to create health care
professionals are harmless to
practise and change safe to
practise throughout their
career. Executive and judiciary
set legal regulations such as
safeguarding to public keeping
enforcing regulations in
according with statutory
framework. It includes holding
and maintain registers of well-
being and societal professional
practices in the UK. It needs to
set and encourage standards of
conducts, ethics and ability
that registered meet health and
social care professionals.
Government has made
proposals to take development
of mixed economy that
includes monitor economic
regulator for all well-being ans
societal care in UK. It will
have power to enforce
particular licenses situations to
encourage competition and
maintain continuity of
services. Care quality
commission retain duty for
regulations of quality.
Authority has proposed larger
freedom for foundations trust
and their ability to increase
capital and income form
private patients. These legal
policies are played important
role in terms of protecting
public, maintain confidence of
public in profession, declaring
and keeping standards
professionals. Therefore,
government has ensured that
making appropriate policy in
health and social care.
P 2 features of legislation,
Statutory guidance, code
of practices
Legislation:
Providers make sure that co-
action with their union to sure
that providing high standards,
harmless, caring and supports.
Health and social care workers
promote well-being, safety and
security of community in an
effective manner as well as
openly communicate with
people. In order to that,
workers make sure that
continuing professional
development for improving
quality of well-being, care and
support to people. They also
keep and encourage
equivalence, diverseness and
inclusion. Social workers are
agreed ways of performing as
well as effective follow with
their employers. They also
make sure that treated
community with proper respect
and compassion, encourage
independence and ability to
self-care. Health care workers
maintain privateness and self-
respect of community those
utilise well-being and societal
care services.
In addition to that, health care
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The judiciary gives the least
ideal forum development of
many health policies. Judges
are idea impartial and able to
assess evidence and arguments
from various sources
objectively. In order to that,
government consider key
components that make up
regulatory body that involves
accordant and meaningful
goals that focus on leading aim
of professional regulation.
They being protection of
public. Properly constructed
constitutions that underpins
statutory body and allow it
carries out its functions
effectively and efficiently.
Role of proportionate
governance that enables
regulatory bodies to capably
carry out still ensuring
oversight measures sufficient
hold them that responsible to
UK parliament. This is
agreeable with devolution
position involving response to
law commission and public. In
addition to that, establishing
expertise and capacity as well
There are many protected
distinctive are defined such as
age, disability, civil
partnership, reassignment,
pregnancy, race, maternity, sex
as well as sexual orientation,
religion and belief in this act.
Equality act 2010 defines that
all public government must
have due related to
requirement to remove
discrimination, mistreatment
and exploitation, advance
opportunities of equality and
foster good relationships.
Care act 2014: The main
objective of act was to
maintenance the existence 60
years old regulations relating
to social care in UK. The act
acquired agreement of three
main political bodies in UK
during its transition by
parliament. Care Act, 2014
make provisions to reform law
regarding to care and help for
adult, their safeguarding from
abuse and neglect.
Mental Capacity Act: This
act is designing to protect and
empower community that lack
workers interact respectfully,
faithful, impressive and private
manner. They make sure that
take appropriate decisions
from consultant with their
subordinates. Social workers
sure that clear maintain and
accurate records of well-being
care.
Statutory Guidance: There
are different guidance in health
and social care that are
followed by well-being
workers. Encouraging health
care: Health is described in
different areas such as
personal dignity, physical,
mental and emotional health,
security from abuse and
avoidance, household, family
and individual etc. A local
government can encourage
well-being of people in many
ways that impact on needs and
goals of people.
Preventing, decreasing and
delaying requirements: It is
captious to the vision in Care
Act that attention and help
system work actively
encourage health and
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as increasing professional
standards. It is implementing
impressive professional
regulations in health and social
care. The legislature is the
most suited while judiciary is
branch of government to
develop policy of health and
social in different areas. It is
idea to be impartial and
publicly responsible.
Equity Act 2010: This act
integrates and extends
previous equality regulations.
It has capability to gather
whole information from broad
range of goals sources. It is the
portion to protect and
encourage well-being of
public. Legislatures are also
suited policymaker because
they create experience of
diverse membership and
workers.
of mental capacity to create
decisions regarding care and
treatment. Mental capacity act
utilizes to community aged 16
and over. Lack of capacity of
people includes dementia,
learning disability, brain
injury,mental health illness,
stroke and unconsciousness
reasoned by sudden accidents.
Social Value Act 2012: This
act needs local government
and health sector bodies to
believe economic, social and
environmental health in
procurement of services or
contract.
Action on social determinants
of well-being creating societal
value has clear connections
with efforts to decrease well-
being inequalities.
Societal determiner of well-
being aid to decrease local
independence. There are many
duties of local government for
keeping needs of care and
support for adults. Information
and advice: It includes
responsibility on local
government to set and
maintain information and
advice services regarding to
care and support for all
community in their fields.
Organizational policy of
health and social care
Safeguarding policy:
It is policy that aim to identify
and clarify relations among
well-being and other system at
both strategies and functional
level to safeguard kids, young
people and adults at hazard of
harm of abuse.
Equality policy: It
includes equality delivery
system that is tool to improve
equivalence across
organization. It is being
utilised by both providers and
commissioners of services. It
also involves equality and
diversity that encourage
equivalence and express values
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It has capability to follow
exact, make fair decisions
process. They are often
operates according to clear,
written basis. The mission of
legislature to domain well-
being, safety and morals of the
public sets perspectives for
their working.
inequality and improving
health and welfare of localized
communities.
Code of Practices: There are
many code practices used by
health and social care workers
in UK. They are responsible
for making sure that effective
reply for their activities.
Workers are promoted and
preserve privateness, self-
worth, rights, well-being and
welfare of community those
utilise well-being facilities and
their carers at any time.
of health and social
organization.
National policy: There are
many policies of national
health services such as
increasing access to basic
package of well-being care by
investment in land scape,
human resources and
deconcentrated management,
launching building blocks of
an even-handed, impressive,
responsive and sustainable
well-being care delivery
system.
M 1 Ethics reform health, care and support services
There are many ethics reforms values in health and social care that are utilised by health
and social care workers.
Equality Ethics: It is important ethical reforms values in health and social care. It refers
to providing equal treatment to public safety and protection. Fairness is powerful value of ethics
reforms. There is no happen for any kind of discrimination to public such as race, religions,
wealth etc. Equity needs that lived experiences of single person in access and quality of health
and social care services. It is necessary to give equal opportunities and treatment to people in
context to health and social care.
Quality: It is necessary to provide high standard quality services to people for protecting
and safety. Therefore, health care workers follow these ethics reforms values for safety and
security of public. Quality is connected to evidence of effectuality. Health care workers has
incentives when they focus to prioritize evidence-based treatment to people.
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Giving respect: It is essential to give equal respect to any kind of people and providing
the best health and social care to public. Health care workers interact respectfully, faithful,
impressive and private manner. It is necessary to adopt all ethical reforms values to provide
health and social care to people.
Making policy: It is the most important ethics to make and implement policy such as
safety, privacy policy, discrimination as well as harassment, violence and misconduct policy.
Therefore, it is necessary to adopt all ethics reforms in context to policies and procedures of
health and social care to people.
Communication: It is also considered in ethics reform values. In this context, effective
communication with people and staff in heath and social care. Because of, it is important to
impressive interaction with all people who are using health and social cares.
Health care workers maintain privacy and self-respect of community those utilise well-
being and societal care services. Providers make sure that co-action with their staff to sure that
giving high standards, harmless, caring and supports to public for their protection and safety.
Therefore, health and social workers follow all ethical reforms values for well-being and security
to public.
D 1 National system of government to its effect on health care
Government plays important role in health and social care. There are many priorities to
government for protection and security of people. National level authority make sure that giving
support economic productiveness, keep people healthy and sustainable public services. They
make sure that transform leading, people and societal care to hold person living more
independent for longer in their community.
Regulating policies: Government of UK has regulated different policies and laws
relating to health and social care. It includes equality, social care, mental capacity, health and
social care for public protection and safety. So that, all health providers must have followed all
policies and regulations in the workplace. This helps in improve quality of care and meet their
expectation of patients.
Code of Conduct: National authority has made code of ethics relating to well-being and
social care. In this context, there are many codes of ethics such as Equality Ethics, Giving
respect, Quality, Communication, dignity etc. to provide health and social care to public.
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Effective code of ethics helps in improve quality of care. Therefore, they are setting and
encouraging standards of conduct and ethics in health and social care.
Therefore, government has regulated legislation to encourage comprehensive well-being
services that give care free charges to public. This helps in increasing efficiency and health goals
to public. Authority has regulated different policy regarding education and training for health and
social care professionals. So that, health and social workers make sure that follow all the ethics
and policies for giving the effective well-being and social care to public protection.
CONCLUSION
This report has summarised that set legal policy of health and social care by executive
and judiciary. It can be concluded that features of legislation such as Social Value Act 2012,
Mental Capacity Act, Care act 2014, Equity Act 2010 includes in health care. It involves feature
of code of practices, national as well as organizational policy in social care. It can be discussed
that different ethics reforms like Equality Ethics, Quality, Giving respect, Making policy,
Communication in health and social care. Furthermore, report completed that government play
role in health and social care.
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