the treatment pathway I would recommend in each case. I will explain my rationale and I will consider the role of the range of professionals and other workers from statutory‚ non-statutory and voluntary organisations. I will describe the role and remit of at least one service that I identify. John is a 34 year old IV heroin user. John is homeless‚ estranged from his family and has limited support from other hostel residents and rough sleepers. He has been using heroin for 10 years and is currently
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Practice Experience Analysis Mr X is a seventy year old man who has spent most of his adult life in and out of various mental health wards in a number of local hospitals. Diagnosed with schizophrenia at the age of 27‚ an illness he maintains he has never had‚ Mr X blames his family‚ in particular his father and brother‚ for his many stays in hospital including numerous detentions under Sections 2 and 3 of the Mental Health Act (1983). Mr X had been encouraged by his care co-ordinator‚ under
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achieve its goals. My organisation is the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust‚ a foundation (semi-independent) National Health Service Trust comprising of two tertiary care heart and lung hospitals‚ the Royal Brompton Hospital in Central London and Harefield Hospital in Harefield on the London/Buckinghamshire border. The organisation has been a single NHS Trust since 1998‚ prior to which it was two separate NHS Trusts. The organisation has 3104 staff of which approximately 300 are
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Select an area of Social Work that interests you. Provide an investigation into the ways social workers practice in this are in England and compare it briefly to practice in another area of your choice. Social Work in Mental Health has often been associated with the power to compulsory detain people for admission to Mental Health institutions. This relationship and the role of Mental Health Social Workers has changed overtime‚ as government policy and wider social influences have impacted on
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Older people and Social Care My presentation topic is social policy and older people and the key act I’m going to mainly focus on is the NHS & Community Care Act 1990. Going with the assumption that an older person is one whose age is 65 or over – the one distinguishing feature that they possess is that they appear not to work for a living. Older people have always been a major focus for social policy and because the UK is an ageing society‚ their importance to the subject is increasing further
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amongst professionals within a team‚ which will ultimately lead to improved judgement when providing care and creating a higher bench mark for quality care (DOH 2007). In the NHS‚ it is stated that quality is defined by doing the right thing in the right way at the right time in the right place with the right result (NHS 2012). Lord Darzi’s High Quality Care for all (2008) states that delivering quality healthcare includes providing patients and the public with effective safety‚ cleanliness‚ delivery
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This paper aims to discuss‚ using appropriate literature‚ the concept of inter-professional working (IPW) in light of a chosen scenario. I will provide a brief introduction whilst examining the issues‚ key players and challenges presented by the scenario by comparing‚ contrasting and evaluating my findings in order to make recommendations for future practice. Øvretveit et al (1997) suggests IPW is a multifaceted collaboration of professionals from diverse disciplines working as one to achieve optimum
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made by some of New Labour’s leading thinkers in the years before they took office in order to then delve into the motivations behind them. While the focus on welfare reforms undertaken since 1997 rests with the Labour government’s policy toward the NHS‚ the essay establishes that there is a great deal of evidence to support the view that Labour have acted out of pragmatic considerations. Nevertheless‚ it is argued that policy toward reforming one of the key elements of welfare in Britain‚ the National
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Task B You’re Work Role Bi My contract covers many terms and conditions such as Job title‚ Entitlement - rate of pay‚ holiday entitlement‚ retirement and ill-health benefits‚ bonus/overtime rates‚ uniform and/expenses allowances‚ public holidays‚ time recording‚etc. Responsibilities such as working hours‚ reporting illness/absence‚ complaints procedures‚ notice periods for leaving/dismissal‚ requirements to change working hours. Other conditions restricting the employee taking other part-time
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Sociology‚ 27 (3) 393-410 Ashton J and Seymour H (1988) The New Public Health Baggott R (2000) Public Health‚ Policy and Politics. Basingstoke. Palgrave. Bartlett W (1991) ‘Quasi-Markets and Contracts: A Markets and Hierarchies Perspective on the NHS Reforms’‚ Public Money and Management. (11) 53-61 Bartlett W and LeGrand J (1993) Quasi-Markets and Social Policy Bennett J and DiLorenzo F (1999) The Food and Drink police: America’s nannies‚ Busybodies and Petty Tyrants. New York. Transaction. Brown
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