Compliance and Reporting in Health & Social Care: A Case Study

This report delves into the critical aspects of reporting and record-keeping within health and social care settings. It highlights the statutory requirements, emphasizing legal and regulatory frameworks such as the Data Protection Act 1998 and GDPR, which govern the handling, recording, and disclosure of sensitive information. The report uses a scenario regulated by the National Health Services to illustrate these points. It addresses the implications of non-compliance, particularly focusing on how failures in record-keeping can lead to severe consequences, including patient mortality and reputational damage. Furthermore, it stresses the importance of staff training and adherence to both internal and external regulatory protocols to ensure patient safety and data integrity. The document concludes by underscoring the necessity of accountability and proper reporting channels within healthcare organizations.

Effective Reporting and
Record-keeping in Health
& Social Care

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
P1) The statutory requirement for reporting and record keeping in own care setting ...........3
M1) The implication of non compliance with legislation, regulating and inspecting bodies
requirement.............................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
The reporting and record keeping are important in the particular healthcare. There are
various activity which is useful in the social care and this provide to store data and all. The field
is very clear and this will provide the use of data or information in perfection and this provide
high level of effectively of activities. In the social and health care units it is well analyse to
create the high level of effectiveness of activities. As per this, the record keeping is major step
which is involved in maintaining the higher storage of patient data. There are various number of
decision which is taken in favour of patient. This is ensure that the record keeping is the area of
health and social well being is essential in order to patients. In addition to this, the legal and
regulatory parameter in health and social care for the health and social care. In this context, the
requirement for record keeping may not necessary in order to link with external aspects but they
also associated with the internal environment (Frost and et. al., 2017). There are number of
application which is based on regulatory and legal aspect of the rational practice. Moreover, in
the care setting should be abide by law and regulation. This help to ensure about law record
keeping and keeping local and national policies. This report covers the all perspective of the
record and information management which is important in care setting.
MAIN BODY
P1) The statutory requirement for reporting and record keeping in own care setting
Legal and regulatory aspect
A scenario help to answer on legal and regulatory aspect in the given case study which is
regulated by the National health services. They ordered the national regulator to compile a report
on data management and process of health and social care centre. The description is usually
related with the aspect of various law and regulation which help to know the fact within the
aspect of its practices (Manogaran and et. al., 2017). In the regulation of record keeping the law
and regulation which is dealing for various information that is confidential and ethical.
Moreover, the information sharing which is usually drive in order to take place with various
people who required additional information which is constantly saving and attaching with
various data base. This all aspect is a regulation of a person in authority in care setting which is
help to share information. The person which may be friend, family member and professional
taking care of the individual. In this the social care or health care worker and this provide the

individual or worker who is fulfilling the various responsibility of providing social care and
healthcare need to individual in the care setting.
This is also defined with the legal and regulatory requirement which required the
information which is take place in the social and healthcare. Handling of information which is
important because this is involve protection and authentic use of information of any individual
taking the aspect of health and social care needs. There are various practice which is help to
involve in maintaining records of information which make required outcomes for those who
want information in future for references. There are some law such as data protection act 1998
offers various guidelines in this regards. In this, the general data protection regulation or GDPR
which is helpful in this regards. The process of holding, recording using and disclosing
information which make the whole process of data protection. As per this, the data protection act
help to make ensure about the data confidentiality of information and the need of the
organisation for the information (Ngiam and et. al., 2019).
In a health and social care setting, it is an essential for a registered person on the scene to
protect and make the information safe from misuse and others. The health and social care act
2008 provide the guide in the health and social care setting. The reporting provision in the law
and regulation which must be provide proper accountability because the registered person has to
report in a person in higher authority. Moreover, the care setting which help to provide the
practice that practice the record keeping and reporting. There are reporting provision in the law
and regulation that help to ensure the accountability because the registered person has to report
in the higher authority. The law and regulation is can come up with the expectation of the
national regulator after the various sad demise in the care setting.
Consequences of Non- compliance:
In the present scenario the individual is died due the the ignorance of record which is not
maintained with care setting. Non compliance as with taking consideration to the record keeping
and and reporting which has lead criticism in the health and social care. Death as result with the
collective ignorance in health and social care has neglected in the image of the setting which is
highly essential in older with diagnose report and their testing report. As per this, they can cause
and help the care setting which may be knowledge of every patient (Singh and et. al., 2019).

M1) The implication of non compliance with legislation, regulating and inspecting bodies
requirement
As per the scenario, the new staff which assign in a health and social care must know
about the compliance with patient. This is better to know the law and regulation and various
protocol in the requirement of internal and external requirement. In this they are noticed and
verified by the death of patient where in the major of cases this is well identified by checking
their medical history to ensure that the death is natural. This records are must share with family
and their member in order to know the various complication as per this they are being in position
to died (Venkatesan and et. al., 2018).

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