Unit 9:Promote Good Practice in Handling Information in Health and Social Care Settings. 1. Understand requirements for handling information in health and social-care settings. 1.1 Identify legislation and codes of practice that relate to handling information in health and social care. All staff need to make sure that confidentiality is paramount. Staff have to read and understand the Data Protection Act of 1998. They have to make sure that they are clear about their standards of conduct‚ that
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the academic year 2012-13 On the Topic: “HEALTH INSURANCE SECTOR IN INDIA: CURRENT SCENARIO” Prepared & Submitted By Rajat Tandon (09BAL052) Chapter-1 Introduction and Research Methodology: 1.1 Introduction: Health and health care need to be distinguished from each other for no better reason than that the former is often incorrectly seen as a direct function of the latter. Heath is clearly not the mere absence of disease. Good Health confers on a person or groups freedom from illness
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Edexcel GCSE 2009 Health and Social Care Unit 4: Health‚ Social Care and Early Years in Practice Practical support to help you deliver this Edexcel specification Scheme of work This scheme of work has been produced to help you implement this Edexcel specification. It is offered as an example of one possible model that you should feel free to adapt to meet your needs and is not intended to be in any way prescriptive. It is in editable word format to make adaptation
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Identify and outline the opportunities of current government policy on promoting child and family health. This essay is going to refer to government policies that promote health in children and families. The essay briefly focuses on the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme age 0-19 (HCP DOH 2009) and the "Giving all children a healthy start" policy by the Department of Health 2013 (DOH 2013). The government brought the Healthy Child Programme 0-19 years old‚ out in October 2009 (HCP
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PRINCIPLES FOR IMPLEMENTING DUTY OF CARE IN HEALTH‚ SOCIAL CARE OR CHILDREN`S AND YOUNG PEOPLE`S SETTINGS UNIT: SHC34 EXPLAIN WHAT IT MEANS TO HAVE A DUTY OF CARE IN YOUR OWN WORK ROLE I and my employers have a “Duty of Care” when delivering services to the individuals in our care. We must follow the General Social Care Council’s (GSCC) Codes of Practice‚ our organisational policies and procedures and also Legislations and Acts‚ all of which set out the standards I am to follow. The GSCC regulates
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TO EXOPLORE THE UK HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE SYSTEM AND TO CRITICALLY ANALYSE POLICY/STANDARDS IN RELATION TO PRACITCE. The UK health and social care system provides free medical and surgical treatment to all citizens and long term registered residents‚ through the National Health Services (NHS) and Department of Health (DH).The NHS is in charge of the healthcare and DH governs the NHS. The system also provides social services which support and protect people who are vulnerable/at risk‚ provides
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The Policy Process: Part I HCS/455 In the United States‚ Veteran’s health care at an economical rate is a continuous debate. It is warranted that the health care should improve at a constant rate to uphold the health needs of veterans‚ new and old. Government has the veterans association (VA) and with all the help it has available for veterans there are still times when that cares is not enough. There are so many individuals that are without health care because of one reason for another and
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PWCS 024 Safeguarding and Protection in Health and Social Care. Complete the table below and give 4 possible signs or symptoms for each (PWCS 024 1.1‚1.2) Type of Abuse | Signs and symptoms | Physical Abuse | Signs – bruises‚ cuts‚ burnt‚ broken bones‚ open wounds…Symptoms – withdrawn‚ aggressive behaviour‚ emotionally disturbed… | Sexual Abuse | Signs – bruises‚ vaginal or anal bleeding‚ infections… Symptoms – withdrawn‚ agitated‚ angry‚ aggressive‚ nervous‚ humiliated… | Emotional/psychological
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Communication skills are used within care settings to engage within a better conversation. They consist of physical attributes which make conversation and discussion more effective by conveying interest in what the carer/professional is saying. My first example of a communication skill is body language. Body language is the conscious and unconscious use of physical bodily positioning in order to convey attitude and emotion. Open body language would consist of sitting with a straight back with hands/arms
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PCWS 31 Task 1 People communicate to extent out to another person‚ to reach them and make them understand what they want to tell them. We communicate to pass on information‚ whether it is to chat with a friend‚ pass on information to a college or engage a service user through their given form of communication. In a social care setting communication with a service user is an integral part of their care. If a service user does not understand what is being said to them or vice versa
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