What Are the Opportunities and Challenges Facing Community Health Visiting at the Present Time Bearing in Mind the Changes in the Nhs?’

“Everyone has an important role to play in achieving healthcare rights and contributing to safe, high quality care. Genuine partnerships between those families and carers of people receiving care and those providing it lead to the best possible outcomes.” (Western NSW Local Health District 2012).

Health in all cultures is an important aspect of life. A person’s cultural background, religion and/or beliefs, greatly influences a person’s health and their response to medical care (Spector, 2004). These diverse cultures guide decisions made in daily life; what food eaten, living arrangements made, medications taken and medical advice listened to. A nurse must be knowledgeable and respectful of these diverse cultures and understand their importance when providing care. This understanding helps to build a strong nurse/patient relationship, increasing patient compliance, which ensures positive outcomes are met. Patients who are satisfied

Task D Presentation or report Prepare a presentation or report on an issue or area of public concern related to the care profession. Your presentation or report should include: • • • • A description of the issue or area of public concern raised An outline of the different points of view regarding the issue or area of public concern raised A description of how the issue or area of public concern has affected service provision and methods of working A description of how public opinion is affected by issues and areas of concern in either the health, social care or children’s and young people's sectors

It is important to review care and support plans as people’s needs change. By including the person, their family then everyone knows what is happening and the family can help to monitor mood swings and behaviour. The individual and the family can express their views and preferences and any relevant risk assessments may be done with everyone involved. By monitoring the individual, a decision can be made as to whether the changes are effective and if the best care is being given to encourage independence and promote dignity.

I am a naturally creative person who enjoys implementing evidence based practice change at a strategic and operational level. I am very excited about the opportunity to be potentially involved with designing an E-learning package. Whilst working with other experts in this industry I have gained some knowledge in the process of elearning development. I think that routine antenatal and postnatal care present an excellent opportunity to screen the mental health of pregnant women and women with a new baby. To do this effectively however, requires working more collaboratively across different professions to meet the needs of our patients. Having the post of a specialist midwife in mental health could allow me to provide focused care to pregnant women with mental illness. This could include co-morbid substance & alcohol misuse problems. I envisage the role as working closely with a perinatal psychiatry team at W.M.U.H and as an important point of liaison between the other midwives, especially safeguarding and case loading midwives, obstetricians, health visitors, child and family social services, obstetricians in the hospital, and mental health services. A useful means to achieve partnership working would be for the S.M.M.H to attend the weekly midwifery team meeting. Here, all midwifery community and labour ward teams meet to discuss the caseload and update the antenatal progress notes. This provides a valuable opportunity for potential referrals

Within this following assignments it will discuss, and compare the range of skill that are used within interpersonal communication, throughout the health and social care sector, and the interactions barriers that we have to vdeal with when working with work colleagues, and outside agency , as well as looking after our clients groups. As Health care workers who work within the health and social care sector, the method which we tend to use when caring for our clients, throughout the NHS, is person centred care. We are trained to use the following aspects, which is to respect the needs, and wishes, at all times of every person, we come in to contact with. Which then, therefore helps these people and your fellow co-workers, know that you have

The CCG will work to build quality in the neighborhood wellbeing administration. We will guarantee that neighborhood individuals are completely educated of our triumphs with the goal that we can fabricate and maintain trust in the CCG and the nearby NHS. This will incorporate building up a Patient Prospectus as a feature of a more extensive Communications Plan.

This paper will focus on how Kent Sussex Community Services (KSCS) is guided by their mission statement. It will also provide a description of the agency, an outline of the services provided; identify what target population it services. It will review and discuss the agencies Pre-screening questionnaire and form and identify the forms strengths and limitation of how well KSCS adheres to the agencies purpose and goals. Finally, the monitor will revise any limitations that appear in the pre screening form and discuss rational for the revision of the form.

Religion and spirituality can be one of the most difficult, yet important things for a pediatrician to talk about with patients and their families. Many doctors ignore the topic completely to avoid awkward or uncomfortable conversations with the patient. However, religion and spirituality is a major part of many people’s lives and should be inquired about during the treatment of a child. It can affect how a patient and their family makes major medical decisions as well as the comfort level of the child during treatment. Ultimately the goal of a pediatrician is to ensure that a child is cared for properly and comfortably. Being able to execute these two goals well is the key to being a successful medical care provider. It is important to understand

Nursing today is at the heart of healthcare provision in the United Kingdom, and nurses are the largest group of clinical employees in the NHS (The Royal Marsden, 2011). This essay will illustrate a discussion on how nursing has changed in the past twenty or so years with regards to how the public health needs have changed and in particular, at how the role of the nurse has adapted to ensure that high quality care is provided. Fluctuating demographics and an upsurge in life expectancy has had increased demand on the NHS services, which in turn has resulted in variations in the roles of healthcare professionals. In particular this, and a change in education, has led to new and more complex roles for nurses who are now taking on more responsibility

In order to properly analyse the inter-professional working of the clients care team, it is important to collate the differing aims of each profession involved. Mr and Mrs Client’s keyworkers from the housing support team were of the opinion that the client’s accommodation had reached the stage where it was posing a health risk for both the clients and other residents in the building. Because the housing support team had daily input with both clients they were also able to pick up on various other aspects of care that appeared to require revaluation, such as medication and mental state, and had encountered such an issue with Mr Client giving Mrs Client the incorrect dosage of medication. Taking into account the issues raised the housing support team felt that they were maintaining a poor quality of life for the clients, and that alternative sheltered accommodation, and care approach should be discussed as this was unacceptable. The social work keyworkers in addition to their normal visits had arrangements for further

Public health is concerned with protecting and improving the health of entire populations, whether through education and promotion of healthy lifestyles, research for disease and injury prevention, detection and control of infectious diseases, or changes in public policy.1 The patient-provider encounter is an important point of access between the patient population and the healthcare system and other healthcare resources.2 During this encounter, conversations around health education and prevention, in addition to delivery of immediate care, can take place. When it becomes evident that populations are failing to receive proper healthcare, not due to a lack of tangible resources, but because of institutional/societal barriers (i.e. within the field of medicine) that prevent them from accessing that care, this constitutes a public health problem.

DoH. (1993) A Vision for the Future. The Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting Contribution to Health Care. HMSO, London.

According to Spector (2017), the religious affiliations can help to understand its links in a complex chain of life events, hence, the caregiver must be aware and prepare to treat the individual as unique with a view that may differ from their own. I will be asking myself if I have enough understanding of what it requires to provide a culturally competent care to this patient.

Due to my new understanding of these different cultural and structural views within different people, it has allowed me to perceive possible amendments into our hospital system. In hindsight, I feel as though we could have discussed other options with our patient and her husband to how to treat, whilst respecting their culture. I am under the impression they came to the hospital to receive westernised treatment, however I do believe that this family would have been a good candidate for a home visits. To have medication administered and a physiotherapist