Level 2 Health And Social Care Barriers Analysis
INTRODUCTION
Main barriers to accessing health and social care.
Barriers mean the difficult people face to access a service. There is wide range of help available by health and social care to people however accessing it can be frustrating and difficult. This barrier occurs for different reason, and there are different ways of accessing health and social care. (Cited in Hetherington A, Irvine J, Rasheed A, - BTEC first Level 2 Health and Social Care (Hodder 2012) ISBN 9781444111903 pg 283).
Types of barriers to accessing health and social care.
Number of factors contributes to the difficulty that occurs when trying to access services; some are outside people’s control. The main barriers are outlined below:
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Primary care trusts is structured to a local area it is also known as budget for health care. This as result of fixed budget the budget; the areas themselves decide how to spend their allocation. As a result of this priority is usually given. They will want to spend it so that it benefits the greatest number of people and they will look closely at the health issues in the local community has a whole. For example, they will consider the most prominent sickness in the area, it can be skin diseases, or kidney problems the PCT might decide to allocate the money into preventive and reducing the expenses of needed for kidney surgery or transplant. Has a result of this there will be ore money avaliable for the less privilege. Or expensive treatment. Treatment (e.g. weight loss surgery). Cited in (Hetherington A, Irvine J, Rasheed A, - BTEC first Level 2 Health and Social Care (Hodder 2012) ISBN 9781444111903 pg …show more content…
for example, or where the culture requires that individuals be treated by the same sex, or people forbid operation and use their faith. Also people can be affect when they can speak good English or understand English, this can lead to gap in communication. Allocation of resources may be available to translate health information into only the most common languages spoken in the local community, and signs in hospitals and health and social care premises are likely to be in English. This is a major problem in the UK; most areas are very ethnically diverse. For example, in 2006, primary school children in one London borough spoke 133 different languages at home as well as English (London Borough of Barnet, 2008). For individual people, it could mean that they are unable to understand the instructions on their medicines, for example. As seen in Hetherington A, Irvine J, Rasheed A, - BTEC first Level 2 Health and Social Care (Hodder 2012) ISBN 9781444111903 page
Main barriers to accessing health and social care.
Barriers mean the difficult people face to access a service. There is wide range of help available by health and social care to people however accessing it can be frustrating and difficult. This barrier occurs for different reason, and there are different ways of accessing health and social care. (Cited in Hetherington A, Irvine J, Rasheed A, - BTEC first Level 2 Health and Social Care (Hodder 2012) ISBN 9781444111903 pg 283).
Types of barriers to accessing health and social care.
Number of factors contributes to the difficulty that occurs when trying to access services; some are outside people’s control. The main barriers are outlined below:
Physical …show more content…
Primary care trusts is structured to a local area it is also known as budget for health care. This as result of fixed budget the budget; the areas themselves decide how to spend their allocation. As a result of this priority is usually given. They will want to spend it so that it benefits the greatest number of people and they will look closely at the health issues in the local community has a whole. For example, they will consider the most prominent sickness in the area, it can be skin diseases, or kidney problems the PCT might decide to allocate the money into preventive and reducing the expenses of needed for kidney surgery or transplant. Has a result of this there will be ore money avaliable for the less privilege. Or expensive treatment. Treatment (e.g. weight loss surgery). Cited in (Hetherington A, Irvine J, Rasheed A, - BTEC first Level 2 Health and Social Care (Hodder 2012) ISBN 9781444111903 pg …show more content…
for example, or where the culture requires that individuals be treated by the same sex, or people forbid operation and use their faith. Also people can be affect when they can speak good English or understand English, this can lead to gap in communication. Allocation of resources may be available to translate health information into only the most common languages spoken in the local community, and signs in hospitals and health and social care premises are likely to be in English. This is a major problem in the UK; most areas are very ethnically diverse. For example, in 2006, primary school children in one London borough spoke 133 different languages at home as well as English (London Borough of Barnet, 2008). For individual people, it could mean that they are unable to understand the instructions on their medicines, for example. As seen in Hetherington A, Irvine J, Rasheed A, - BTEC first Level 2 Health and Social Care (Hodder 2012) ISBN 9781444111903 page