ntroduction The definition of high quality care has now become enshrined in the Health and Social Care Act 2012 requiring the presence of 3 equally important pillars: • Patient safety • Clinical effectiveness • Patient experience The Department of Health (2003‚ p.19) defines a positive patient experience as: “We want an NHS that meets not only our physical needs but our emotional needs too. This means getting good treatment in a comfortable‚ caring and safe environment‚ delivered in a calm and
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Level 3 Unit 206: The roll of a health and social care worker Explain the difference between a working relationship and a personal relationship. 1.1 A working relationship is where you are working with other people and you are working as part of a team where each person in the team is working towards the same aims and objectives. Mutual respect and understanding is needed for a good working relationship‚ not every body may get on in the work place‚ but personal feelings and opinions
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There are many theories that tend to explain different aspects in human development. According to Encarta Encyclopedia‚ 2006‚ these are system of assumptions based on limited information or knowledge‚ devised to analyze‚ predict‚ or otherwise explain the nature or behavior of a specified set of phenomena. In line with the definition‚ theories remain as conjectures explaining certain occurrences‚ but never will it attain the grounds earned by laws and principles as universal truths. In Developmental
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INFORMATION IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE SETTINGS OUTCOME 1- 1.1- IDENTIFY LEGISLATION AND CODES OF PRACTICE THAT RELATE TO HANDLING INFORMATION IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE The Data Protection Act 1998 (2000). This Act gives the individual‚ the right to see recorded information about them. The Human Rights Act 1998 details the right to a private life. The Health and Social Care Act 2008. This Act established the Care Quality Commission as the regulator for health and social care settings. The
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individuals and monitor the effects 1- Understand legislation‚ policies and procedures relevant to administration of medication. Legislation: Health and Social Care Act; the Medicines Act and The Misuse of Drugs Act. Guidelines could include the Nursing Midwifery Guidelines for the management of medicine administration - registered nurses have to abide by this set of guidelines and for paid carers‚ the General Social Care Council’s Code of Conduct will have something which could relate to medication
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communication in Health‚ Social care‚ or Children’s and young people’s settings. • Identify the different reasons people communicate. People communicate for several reasons for example: To express emotion or feelings To share opinions or information To build relationships To understand things or people‚ and for others to understand you To share knowledge or to gain knowledge To comfort others • Explain how communication affects relationships in the work setting. Good communication
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IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE Standards & Guidelines for Resolution & Learning 1 April 2009 SUMMARY Complaints in Health and Social Care: Standards and Guidelines for Resolution and Learning replaces the existing HPSS Complaints Procedure 1996 and provides a streamlined process that applies equally to all health and social care (HSC) organisations. As such it provides a simple‚ consistent approach for staff who handle complaints and for people raising complaints across all health and social
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on safe infection control techniques using ADPIE (Assessment‚ Diagnosis‚ Planning‚ Implementation‚ Evaluation) These will be written up to demonstrate the links between practice and the supporting theory. Direct observation (2): Infection control. Assessment Hand washing is extremely important in clinical areas‚ as it reduces the risk of infections. Infections are caused by organisms which invade the host’s defence mechanisms. Effective hand washing can reduce the risk of infections occurring
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Control of Health Care in the United States The insurance companies have a total stranglehold over health care. They make record profits. They make decisions. They put profits before people and do so at our expense. They give millions in campaign contributions to win reforms that will add billions more to their profits and do nothing for the rest of us. Insurance companies are spending $1.4 million a day to oppose reform because they profit by keeping the system as it is.... by denying claims
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discuss the structure of organized public health in the United States. Public health activities are performed at many levels from local to national to global. The organizations and agencies devoted to public health at these different levels share many of the same functions including dis- ease surveillance‚ policy development‚ and provision of access to health care. Local health departments are the point of contact with the individual residents‚ and care and data collection occur primarily at that
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