In healthcare, hospitals provide considerable services through Doctors/GPs surgeries to citizens. They practice health check-up, give medications or vaccinations for health impairments. In cooperation with pharmacists, they provide health education and advice (e.g. about smoking), dietary and maternity’s services.
Care Home services provide medical and emotional care and support for elderly people. They give assistance and safeguarding to those who can’t cope on their own anymore in many ways: especially bathing, dressing, health check-up; and keep their self-esteem and self-worth up.
Day Care offer care and look after children to enable parents to go for work. They provide a safe environment …show more content…
For example:
• The purposes of children’ nursery is to gradually include young children in the educative system and allowed by the way their parents to go work without any worries about them.
• Doctors and physicians aim to keep the community’s well-being and prevent illnesses, worry with/for them over their health and help maintain it as good as possible
• Colleges and vocational training centre aim to well-equipped young people for their development towards independence and self-care
• In a residential home, elderly people are cared for and supported in their day to day life alongside safeguarding their independence and dignity.
Examples of who would access different types of services provision
Different people would access different types of services. But healthcare services such as GPs’ surgeries would be attended by everyone from the new-born to elderly people. Healthcare services are needed by everyone no matter how severe their illness, injury or health’s impairments might be.
Individuals’ groups in a society can be divided as …show more content…
Government provides the money to support these services and pay the wages of those who work there.
Example: Mental Health Trust, dentist, optician, crèche, Breakfast club, after school club Social services, the National Health Service, etc.
Independent service means that the service is being provided by the informal sector (relatives, neighbours, and charities), volunteers, and private companies. They are offering paid (private) or unpaid services. Wages are being paid by the companies.
Example: Private hospital, Child-minder, Nurseries, Private medical and nursing homes, Private residential care, nannies care, charities, neighbourhood associations, etc.
How informal care contributes services provision?
Informal care is when someone cannot afford or do not want to be in a formal care (like care home or a centre for disabled people), get a help from a neighbour or a person sent by a charitable agency. Informal care from a family member can be for example someone who take care his relative (e.g. grandparents) every time he can or during his free