An Analysis of Healthcare Professionals' Roles and Responsibilities

This report provides an overview of healthcare professionals, detailing their roles and responsibilities in delivering health care services. It covers key legislation such as the NHS and Community Care Act 1990, Health Act 1999, and Health and Social Care Act of 2012 and 2014. The report examines the functions of professionals within the Lea Vale foundation, emphasizing the importance of an integrated, multidisciplinary approach. It also explores the values, ethics, and codes of conduct that influence clinical decisions, as well as the benefits of inter-professional and multidisciplinary working, including improved health outcomes, enhanced client satisfaction, and efficient resource utilization. The report concludes by highlighting the skills and attributes of an integrated health center and providing a brief overview of different models used. The report is based on existing research, and is useful for understanding the healthcare landscape.

THE HEALTH CARE
PROFESSIONAL

INTRODUCTION
 Health care professionals is an individual who facilitates
preventive, promotional, rehabilitative health care services in
most appropriate systematic way to general public or
communities.
 Health care professional are also known as health care
practitioner or health care provider.

LIST OF HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS
It involves:
• Social worker
• Nurse
• Teacher
• Lawyer
• General practitioner

LEGISLATION, POLICIES AND REPORT
It involves following laws and legislation:
• NHS and Community Care Act 1990
• Health Act 1999
• Health and social care act 2012
• The health and social care act 2014

NHS AND COMMUNITY CARE ACT 1990
• According to this particular act, any adult aged people that is eligible
and need services from local authority.
• Everyone that is eligible has the option to expect that the services they
receive are related with tailored to meet their need.

HEALTH ACT 1999
• This particular act is entirely aimed to make medication in the quality
of care that is provided to the patient by NHS.
• Made a wide number of provision intended to improve the coordination
of care among local authorities.

HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE ACT 2012
• This particular act is basically related with the extensive reorganisation
of the framework that has been followed in the UK.
• The proposal used to consist of act that some of the coalition
government are most controversial.

THE HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE ACT
2014:
• This particular assessment set out in one place, local authorities in
relation to assessing people requirements and their eligibility for the
public capital care and support.
• The purpose of act was to overhaul the current legislation regarding
social care.

Roles and responsibilities of individuals working in
Lea Vale foundation
 As in present times the trust, Lea Vale foundation is an integrated
health centre and providing inefficient and ineffective services
regarding health of general public.
 Therefore in order to rectifying this problem the senior managers of
the foundation wants to analyse the workings of individuals by
knowing their roles and responsibilities.
 In order to form an integrated team working environment within the
foundation and make foundation acts as multidisciplinary health centre.

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 However the multidisciplinary health care team integrates into
various health care structures such as university medical center,
involves external quality assurance, quality management system,
center for rare diseases etc.

Concept of values, ethics or codes of
conduct
 The personal and professional values of health care practitioner affects
the clinical decisions. Values for the individuals or health care
practitioner can helps in improvement of patient health related decisions
taken by the individual practitioners and inter professional teams.
 Some values of health care practitioners are capability, professionalism,
intellectual stimulation, critical thinking, equality etc. the most
prominent value are altruism, equality and capability.

INTER-PROFESSIONAL AND
MULTIDISCIPLINARY WORKING
 Multidisciplinary team enjoys several benefits to both patients and health
professionals.
 Some of the advantages of multidisciplinary team workings are as follows.
 Improvement in health outcomes
 Enhanced satisfaction for clients
 Job satisfaction for team members