For this unit I need to research the impact of one national policy on care practice and provision. I will be accurately and independently applying an in depth knowledge and understanding to give a comprehension explanation of the impact of one national policy on care practice and provision.
The NHS plan 2000 is a health service ‘designed around the patient’ which provides more NHS funding to care practices and provision. This gives people better access and quality care that is up to date for the 21st century. It is built in order to keep peace with the changing society of today. This encourages training to be handled in a more modern way and treatment to be updated. Some of the main points of this policy is to have more and better paid staff using new ways of working, reduced waiting times and high quality care centred around patients, and improvements in local hospitals and surgeries. To do so, there will need to be more funding from the NHS to provide better care.
This policy will provide quality assurance for most patients and is another layer of confidence to providing the care of the best quality that is needed. In the hospital, this will assure Nicola that her physiotherapy is of the best quality possible and that it is updated as much as possible. Here are some print screens from the government website.
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This could be beneficial to people who use service as they will provide quality assurance for the patient and give them confidence in their care, service providers and services. For example; if Nicola (my client) were to have any concerns about her care or any queries, she can get information from the NHS plan as well as the Strategic Health Authority and the Care Quality Commission with their reports and evaluations. This is, also, beneficial to the service providers because it fosters a healthy, safe, and hospitable environment without having