The Impact of Law, Ethics, Policy & Regulation in Health & Social Care

This essay examines the multifaceted roles of legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the UK government in shaping health and social care services. It evaluates how laws impact healthcare provision, emphasizing the relevance of legislation and ethical codes within the sector. Key legislations such as the Equality Act 2010, Employment Right Act 1996, Mental Health Act 1983, and Data Protection Act 2018 are discussed in terms of their effects on dignity, safety, and respect in healthcare workplaces. The essay concludes by highlighting the importance of these legal and ethical frameworks in protecting patients and staff, building trust, and regulating practitioner activities to ensure ethical service delivery.

The role of Law, Ethics, Policy
and Regulation in health and
social care

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
The role of legislature government..............................................................................................3
Role of Execution government ...................................................................................................4
Role of Judiciary government......................................................................................................4
Evaluating the element of the government in healthcare services ..............................................5
Relevance of the legislation and ethical codes in the health and social care services.................5
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
The health and social care is related to the treatment of the patient, prevail from the
diseases, provide the awareness program, control the injury and disease of the patient. The essay
highlights the different role of the legislation, judiciary and execution government of the UK. It
evaluate the through which the different law effect the provision of the healthcare services. The
essay highlight the relevance of the law in the healthcare services and their impact on the
different department. It helps to follow the proper guideline of the government and provide
protection from the different fraud cases in the country. It provide justice to the people and
maintain their belief in the law.
The role of legislature government
The British legislative branch of government is made up of 2 parts one is elected house of
common and another one is elected house of lords. The both houses limited the power of each
other so no one can take advantage of their power.
Approved bill : The role of the legislation is to approve the bill by the Queen which was
passed by the parliament (Yuval-Davis, Wemyss, and Cassidy, 2018). The parliament of UK is
supreme legislative body which passes all the law in the country and regulate that in different
department to check the efficiency and legacy of the department.
Provide protection : They protect the organization from the fraud and provide various
benefits to the population. The various kind of law enforce by the parliament are employment
law, labour law, health and safety law, discrimination law etc. The enforceability of these law in
the organization will provide them proper guideline and protection (What are the branches of
government in the UK and what are their key functions?, 2013).
Provide power and responsibility : They provide the power and responsibility to the
political bodies to ensure that the law is properly followed by the country. Legislation provide
the power to the local and political authority to ensure that the law is performed under the
prescribed manner and the regulate the law to check its efficiency (Wilson, 2016.).
Formulate policy : The role of legislation is to make the various policy for the country
like the taxation, trade rule, export and import of goods regulation etc. The various policy formed
by the legislation provide a framework to perform the activity under the law boundaries.

Role of Execution government
The execution branch is composition of government machine which start with the prime
minister and prime ministers office and comes to the local branch such as city majors.
Implementation of law : They are responsible for the execution of the law. Their role is
to implement the bill passed by the parliament in the country and ensure that it will be followed
by the proper way. Execution is made up of all the official and public authorities which
implement the law in the country.
Aware the people : The main responsibility of the execution branch is enforce the law
and aware the population about the law and the punishment to not follow the law or violation of
law (Brown, and et.al., 2017). They aware about the safety measures like the road safety, product
safety usage, impact of drugs and chemical etc.
Role of Judiciary government
Judiciary refers to the branch of government which monitor the justice in the country and
evaluate the case come into the court and provide assurance to the people that their voice will be
hear by the court and they will get the justice in court.
Provide justice : The main role of the Judiciary is to provide justice to the people.
Judiciary attain the cases in the court and analyse the aspect of both the party and on the basis of
the evidence they pass the judgement and provide justice to the affected party (What is the role
of the judiciary?, 2019).
Settle disputes : The role of Judiciary is to settled the dispute in the organization, firm
and between the peoples. They analyse the various aspect and provide their suggestions to solve
the disputes. To settle the dispute in the organization or between the parties they ensure that the
parties must follow the law and on the violation of the law they also punish the party in the form
of penality or imprisonment.
Provide suggestion : They interpret the law and suggest the prime Minister to appoint
the qualified judge for solving the issues of people in the court. The valuable suggestion of the
judiciary help in taking the decision of choosing the right judge.
Provide guideline : They provide the guideline to the organization and different sectors
like hospitality sector, travel and tourism, healthcare and solve their problem if any kind of
dispute is arising in the organization.

Evaluating the element of the government in healthcare services
The legislation followed by the health and social care are provide dignity, safety and
respect at work place and ensure that the all employees and patient feel safe in work place (Saul,
2017). The health and social care follow the different law like:
Equality act 2010 : The equality act 2010 protect the employees from the discrimination
at work place. In health and social care services the equality act ensure that all the patient and
attendant should be treated equally and the staff also treated equally in the department. It protect
the staff and patient from discrimination.
Employment right Act 1996 : The employment act 1996 ensure the rights of the
employees in the organization. On health and social care services the law ensure that the
employees get the fair wages and salary in the organization, they work according to the
prescribed working hour and get the incentives on excellent performance (Friedli, and Stearn,
2015). It also ensure that the working environment of the workplace is with proper lightning,
water and air condition and staff get the sufficient vaccination to protect themselves from the
diseases.
Mental health act 1983 : the mental health act is provide power to the health and social
care services to treat the mental disable person without their agreement or consent. If the patient
have some mental issue and they refuses for the treatment than the hospital has the right to admit
the person in the hospital and treat without their consent. The health and social care services
ensure to follow the mental health act in their organisation (Smith, and et.al., 2016).
Data protection act 2018 : The data protection act 2018 ensure that the data of the
customer are safe and secure and did not disclose the data to the unknown person without the
consent of the customer. In health and social care services they ensure that the data of the patient
must be secure and not to disclose the data to any third person about the personal detail and
disease of the patient. The act ensure that the data are protected in any case and to protect the
data they use the various software and record rooms in their organisation and restrict the entry in
record rooms.
Relevance of the legislation and ethical codes in the health and social care services
The health and the social service follow the legislation to provide the better services to the
employees and follow the ethical code and conduct in the organization (Rosner, and Markowitz,
2016). They must ensure that they carry the values of their patient and did not harm their

emotions. The impact of the policy is that it provide protection to the patient and staff and build
the trust among the patient that they will be in safe hand and must be treated safely.
The health and social care practitioners are more alert regarding the laws and provide
their services in the ethical manner (Walker, and et.al., 2016). The impact of government
legislation and judiciary on the practitioners is that they regulate their activities and services
provided by them to the patient. If they do any unethical practice than judiciary consider it as a
crime and cancel their licence as practitioner. For example if an practitioner use any wrong drugs
or medicine in the treatment of the patient than it will consider as crime under the law and strict
action will be taken by the judiciary against the practitioner like they may cancel the licence for
some period or may impose some fine or send to prison.
CONCLUSION
The above essay summarise the role of different government parties like the legislation
government, judiciary government and executive government. It explain that hoe judiciary
government provide justice to the people and solve the dispute among the parties. It endure that
the execution government will properly implement the law and regulate the law so they can
manage the environment. It also summarise the effect of law on the healthcare services and
provide the law to the healthcare service department so they can ensure the ethical, social and
safety aspect of the healthcare department. They ensure that each and every patient will be
treated equally an provide the same services which was offers to the other patient.

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