The Care Commission is responsible to the Scottish Ministers.
The Care Commission is responsible to the Scottish Ministers.
The Local Authority. Social Services and National Service Complaints (England) amendment Regulations 2009. came into effect in April 2009. The regulations created a single approach for dealing with complaints about health services and social care services. Before that there were two separate complaints systems, one for health care and one for social care. This helped organisations deal with complaints more effectively and helped ensure services were effective personal and safe. The new complaints approach is structured around three main principles: Listening, Responding, and Improving. It helped organisations to :…
Introduction This is a case study about an older woman (Gladys) with dementia but has mental capacity. She receives care and assistance in her home, she has a cleaner who comes in to clean once a week, a neighbour who makes her dinner (Gladys pays for it) and a granddaughter who is her advocate. She has mobility difficulties but can walk short distances with a trolley/Zimmer frame. She spent 5 weeks in the hospital receiving treatment for a urinary tract infection (UTI) and was appointed a care manager after her discharge. Gladys has over £25,000 and receives £600 as pensions monthly.…
3. Childcare Act 2006, this Act combines the welfare standards which all organisations…
The Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 as amended by The Regulations of Care Act 2001…
1.1 Identify legislation and codes of practise that relate to handling information in social care settings.…
The Care and Social Services Inspectorate for Wales is concerned with the regulation of social care settings. The undertake regular visitations to monitor standards and the welfare of service users/children in that setting. This will include all aspects of the care, environment to paper work. They may also speak with staff and service users/children and young people to establish the care provided. They will then produce a written report which will outline any short falls or areas needing improvement. They also have the power to shut down a setting if they find any serious problems within a social care home provider.…
Within the health and social care environment, communication is the main factor of providing a good service to the service uses and for the service providers. To see if the service is running smoothly and the quality of safety is met. There are other organisations involved who are the public body of department of health, who are known as the care quality commission. This regulation was established in 2009 to observe and inspect the health and social care services around England. They are the supervisory body for all health services in London.…
children and young people are regulated in two main ways through the regulation of the individual worker and regulation of the organisation. individuals are checked to ensure they are safe to work with children and young people. the criminal records bureau searches for information on indidvudals to ensure they have not been in trouble with the law for abusing, exploiting or otherwise harming children. many job advertisments ask applicants to provide a CRB check ot undergo one. regulatory councils or bodies regulate all health and social care professionals. these include; general social care council, nursing and midwifery council and general teaching council. all of the medical and associated professions also have their own regulaotry councils. most have a set of standards of good practise that practioners should follow. foster carers also have a set of standard, the UK nationsl standards for foster care, which explain best practise for foster carers, their supervisiors and managaers. these are used to provide an induction frameork for foster care trainging and development. the genereal cosial care council regulate aulaifed social workers, social care workers and social work students on approved degree courses in england. nursing and midwifery coucncil regulates nurses, midwives and spcialist community public health nurses. the general teaching coucil is the profeccional body for teachers, responisble for warding qualified teacher status and regulating teachers. regulating organisations occurs through a focus on good and legal minium standards. regulaotry bodies inspect organisations to ensure that the mimumum standards are upheld. the standards cover things such as mimium staffing levels, the number of qualified staff and the type of qualifications that are acceptable. in the health service, the standards are called the national service framework for childern, young peopl and maternity services. there are five standards in the framework. promting health and…
The Carers and Disabled Children Act 2000 gives councils the responsibility of supporting carers by providing appropriate services and empowers local authorities to make direct payments to carers. The Carers (Equal Opportunities) Act 2004 gives carers the right to request an assessment of their needs taking into account whether the carer wants to work or already works and any other activities they may undergo. The Care Standards Act 2000 founded the General Social Care Council regulates formal social workers through registration ensuring that individuals who are dismissed for inadequate practice do not continue work in this particular field. Through this act care workers should be checked by the criminal records bureau before beginning employment. It also ensures standards of professional development such as qualifications and training (Sussex, Herne, Scourfield, 2008). The Care Quality Commission was created through The Health and Social Care Bill 2007 through this Commission carers can be formally recognised. The eligibility criteria set out by the CQC requires carers to be of good character, have the necessary qualifications, skills and experience, is physically fit and the person is employed for the purposes of carrying on a regulated activity (CQC, 2010). Necessary qualifications and training will be appropriate to the nature of service provided and specified by…
LLHC violated the EMPTALA law. The likelihood providers will prevail against claimants: “It depends” LLHC physicians will have a difficult defense in this case because the patient condition became worse causing impairment. They also did not transfer the patient to a facility that could provide the appropriate level of care. (Trauma facility) after the found out they did not have a brain surgeon on staff, only an endocrine physician. Will LLHC win? “It depends” The Possible defenses: LLHC offered Chipper another physician at another facility, but he refused this because he claimed our providers were the best in the world. The Medication provided might have caused Chipper to become…
* The Social Work Act 1968 as amended by The Regulation of Care Act 2001…
This Act aims to protect the child from harm and to work in partnership with parents, ensuring that the welfare of the child is paramount. It forms the legal framework that sets quality standards in most voluntary and private sector children's services, and enables Ofsted to operate a registration and inspection system for the following services:…
* The NHS Scotland Pharmaceutical Service (Regulations) 1995 * The Social Work Act 1968 as amended by The Regulation of Care Act 2001 * The Children Act 1989…
2. Describe the circumstances at which you would prepare a strategic plan to include this new law in your marketing decisions, knowing this new law may or may not take effect.…
Within health and social care there are a number of acts and procedures set out in legislation which must be followed. These acts ad procedures influence care settings by offering practical examples of good practice and the way that health and social care should be delivered. They provide advice on how to comply with the law and determine what is reasonably practicable. The acts enforce a duty of care to everyone who is involved at all levels such as the service user, the service user’s friends and family and the staff.…