Healthcare Ethics and Law: A Review of Winterbourne View Case Study

This report provides a detailed analysis of the Winterbourne View case, focusing on the failures in law, policy, and ethical practice within the healthcare setting. It summarizes relevant legislation, national and organizational policies, statutory guidance, and codes of practice. The report examines the relationship between law, policy, and ethics as they relate to the case, highlighting shortfalls in patient safety and care. It critically reviews how workers could have ensured legal compliance through ethical practice, comparing national and organizational policies. Furthermore, the report explores the impact of equality legislation on safeguarding individuals and provides a comprehensive overview of the issues at Winterbourne View, emphasizing the importance of ethical conduct and adherence to legal standards to protect patient rights and promote quality care. The analysis includes references to relevant literature and online resources related to the case and related topics.

Law, Policy and Ethical
Practice in Health & Social
Care

Summarizing legislation and national policies, organizational policies,
statutory
guidance and codes of practice could have been done at Winterbourne
• Legislation and National policies
• Organizational Policies

Cont.
• Statutory Guidance
• Codes of practice

Tasks carried out in healthcare meeting national professional
standards of safe and non discriminatory
practice
• The healthcare should enhance anti-discriminatory practice in
the premises and safeguard patients' interests in effective
manner.
• The tasks carried out in meeting professional standards are
respect people right to confidentiality.
• Moreover, they should ill-treated while providing services.
• Ensuring up to date compliance with healthcare standards
while treating patients.
• I personally feel that interests of persons should be
safeguarded.
• Non-discriminatory practice should be followed and strive to
improve healthcare quality, care and support to service users
for ensuring maximum satisfaction.

Cont.
• Workers should carry out competence-based training in agreed
ways of working in effective manner.
• On the other hand, communicate to immediate senior in
respect to any difficulty for immediate resolving.
• Maintaining clear and accurate records of healthcare for
checking person's conditions.
• Another task should be carried at healthcare to recognise and
work in collaboration to ensure high quality delivery of
services to people in the best manner possible.
• Always acting in best interests of service users and respecting
their dignity.

Relationship between law, policy and ethics relating
to practice at Winterbourne
• The laws are implemented by the authorities which regulates
healthcare.
• Ethics in relation to healthcare is a practical application of
deploying moral standards which are meant for benefiting
patient.
• The institutional adult abuse was being occurred at
Winterbourne where patients were being ill-treated having
disabilities.
• It should have been adhered to certain ethical standards and
code of conduct govern by healthcare authorities of the UK.
• Negligence and vulnerable practices were being followed and
service users were ill-treated by them.

Cont.
• Appropriate relationship should have been maintained by
Winterbourne so as to have everlasting relationship and trust
among people in effective manner.
• On the other hand, healthcare policy and ethics and laws
should be abide by healthcare as they are all interrelated to
practices.
• This should be followed by so that adequate relationship must
be maintained and operational activities may not be ceased in
any manner.
• Thus, it can be said that Winterbourne should have followed
all ethics, policy and laws for safeguarding interests of people.

Shortfalls in patient’s safety and care were related to law, policy and
ethics
• Individual failings
• Adult culture abuse
• Long-term basis in hospital

Cont.
• Accountability issue
• Cruel, callous and degrading behavior

Policies not adhered at Winterbourne View
• No responsibility of staff
• Severely assaulted

Cont.
• Not adhered to policies
• No timely and appropriate response

Critical review of how workers would have ensured legal
compliance through ethical practice
• The ethical concern in the care home is concerned with
prompting and upholding the privacy, dignity, health, welling
and rights of the individuals.
• The workers of Winterbourne View must abide with this
ethical policies of the health care sectors, along with
maintaining the professional values and quality to render
effective support serveries to patients.
• The ethical conduct in the health care sectors establishes the
fact all the support staff must act in the best interest of their
patients.