P1 Unit 4 Health And Social Care

Many people could be affected if staff did not ffollow regulations, an outbreak of food poisoning could occur and this would affect the service, people we support, staff and visitors and they could become very ill with diagnoses of sickness, diarrhea, which could lead to being admitted to hospital and have further complications as well as be less able to fight off infections, or be vulnerable due to their age/lifestyle/circumstances. This could also affect people in an emotional way. For example stress and worry. Some staff may want to stay off work as they would be worried they will catch an illness and this would affect the service staffing levels. Family and friends would be angry, worried and may not be able to visit. Reputation of the

In this essay I will be analysing the communication and interpersonal interaction that took place in various sectors such one to one interaction, group interaction and how effective these skills and other elements in the health and social care setting such as the environment was being demonstrated.

Over the last century health and social care has changed and developed immensely with the implementation of the NHS and becoming a welfare state. Prior to this health care was only available to a minority of people, those who could afford it. In 1815 the old poor law was passed, it stated that each parish must look after its own poor and those who could not work were provided enough money to help them survive. By 1830 the poor law cost around £7 million, which came from taxing the middle and upper class, causing a sense of resentment towards lower class, unemployed people. In 1834 the new poor law was passed, its aim was to reduce the cost of looking after the poor. Workhouses helped with this, they provided clothes, food and healthcare in return for manual labour. Despite

M1- Discuss how policies and procedures help children, young people and their families whilst the child is being looked after.

This is for individuals who are lacking the mental capacity and need somebody else to help them manage their legal, financial and health problems. The mental capacity act therefore made it legal so that those who are unable to make their own decisions have the ability to choose somebody who they feel they can trust to help manage their finances, properties and to help make their health and welfare decision. This is done through the power of attorney. This act links to individuals who suffer with dementia as within the late stages of dementia they will need to give someone the power of attorney due to the fact that they will not be able to manage their legal financial and health problems.

M3: Discuss the care strategies that can be used to support individuals with each physiological disorder.

There are many things which can affect access to complementary therapies. The ones I will be explaining are:

In this report I will be describing different patterns of ill health and who and how they are monitored. I will also try to explain different factors that affect our health, not only now but I will try to discuss how different factors fight effect our health in the future, I will then evaluate the influence of the government have on factors that affect ill health.

A health service is a service that provides care and is under the NHS. For examples hospitals or a G.P. They provide treatments but also prevent illnesses through health promotions. A social care service is about providing support to individuals to help them get by and who ever needs it such as emotional support or practical support with daily living tasks.

Reporting of Injuries,Diseases and dangerous occurrences regulations of 1995 requires the reporting of work-related accidents, diseases and dangerous occurrences. The Act applies to all work related activities, but not to all work related incidents. The objective of the regulations is to enable the enforcing authorities to identify where and how risks arise and to investigate serious accidents so as to prevent them from occurring in the future and thus providing a safer work environment. The enforcing authorities can then help and advise you on preventive action to reduce injury, ill health and accidental loss,the main points of our own policy that relate to this are:

Health and social care organisations increasingly need to work together in partnership to get better value from the available resources and improve services and outcomes for service users, by improving quality of support for service users. Good relationships between partners, a common vision and understanding of expected achievements and what outcomes need to be delivered are critical to the success of partnerships. This will enable a more responsive service, which is well co-ordinated approach to the service delivery, and better value for money by ensuring reduced duplication of services.

No Secrets – Guidance published by the Department of Health, builds upon the governments respects for human rights and highlights the need to protect vulnerable adults through effective multi-agency work.

There are many things that people can do to contribute to providing a positive experience for users of health care services. The health care professional I will talk about and talk about how they can contribute to providing a positive experience is a health care worker.

UNIT 3 HEALTH AND SAFETY. Introduction: In this assignment, I have been asked to expand and the also review our chosen legislations. I will then assess how professional staff could carry out risk assessments and what they will do. Health and safety act 1974 is a legislation that is used in healthcare settings.

I will be exploring discriminatory and non- dormitory an equality and diversity in two setting the first setting is in a social care residence and the second one is in a centre of young adults with additional physical needs in health and social care to. Discriminatory practice in health and social care is when a person is treating someone or an group different or less superior because of their age,gender,race,faith,ethnicity,sexuality and disability. According to the health and social book their are four main types of discrimination which are unfair discrimination, direct discrimination,indirect discrimination and positive discrimination. Unfair discrimination is when a person is treating someone different a few reasons can be because of their gender,seexulaity or faith, an example of this is when a person such as a religious social care resident nurse does not want to help a gay service user as they believe ‘gay people are wrong’. Direct discretion is when someone is being insulting or arrogant to a particular person right in front of them, an example of this is in an care residence is when a service provider does not respect the service user because of they have a disability so they feel that they superior.