...provided by the goverment, this is called stautory care this is provided by the law. For example the goverment have a responsibility to provide some type of chilcare for a child in the form of schools and nurserys. There are many examples of statutory care for example the NHS, The NHS is working with the goverment so for example if a person needed an operation which is important the NHS will get funding by taxes of individuals and the goverment to fund for this operation, this is how the NHS provide health and social care. Another way of providing health and social care services is Voluntary. Some organisations care services provide these services without being asked to, they have chosen too. For example British Red Cross and The Salvation Army, some voluntary care services count on donations from individuals and half the staff who work for them are volunteers. Private care is funded by the individual. The goverment have nothing to do with private care. With Private care a person has to be able to pay for this, the goverment do not fund for private care. You can not get private care if you can not afford it. Many people go with private care because they want to avoid NHS waiting lists, not sure about NHS treatment and also just because they want a second opinion. Informal care isnt with the goverment or with private care, informal care is when you are unpaid. For example you could have someone related to you who has a disability and you could be looking after them. This...
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...needs for the author, the team and the sphere of practice. It begins by outlining policy drivers relating to leadership within the NHS generally and health visiting specifically. It is interesting to note that despite the vast literature on leadership there is very little agreement amongst scholars on the definition of the term (Willcocks 2012; Alimo-Metcalfe and Lawler 2001). Contemporary government policies such as the Health Visitor Implementation plan (GBDH 2011) focus on the desirability of strong leadership to improve the quality of care but are equally vague on defining leadership (Willcocks 2012; Martin and Learmonth 2012). Some authors have found that the term “leader” has merely superseded the terms “administrator” and “manager” within the confines of the NHS (Martin and Learmonth 2012; Sheridan, Rastan and Foulkes 2008; Hodgetts 2012) as it confers an image of “heroism” and, as yet, carries none of the negative connotations associated with administration or management. It has been suggested that leadership may be seen as a panacea (Parker 2004) for any problems within the NHS or as a route to reforming the system (Massey and Munt 2009). Leadership has been a key theme in several government documents in recent years, despite changes in government, including: High Quality Care for All (Darzi 2008); Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS (GBDH 2010) and the Health Visitor...
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...The Structures of Health and Social Care Provision- Introduction to Essay- During this essay I will be discussing the overall structure of social care provision in England. I will outline the different types of care provided by social services and what barriers may occur to prevent one from being able to use them. I will be analysing the structure of both the new and old social care provision, and discussing the changes which have been put in place. Lastly, I will concentrate on primary and secondary care, and looking at different types of regulation methods to ensure that social services are up to the government’s standards. The Structure of Social Care Provision- The Office of the Director is the central office at NIH (National Institutes of Health). It is responsible for setting policies, managing, planning and coordinating all of the activities for all of the NIH components. The Office of the Director is directly in charge of the Children’s Division, the Family Support Division, the MO HealthNet Division, the Division of Youth Services and the Information Technology Services Division. However, it holds responsible for all Divisions. The Children’s Division looks after children and young people; it includes services such as adoption services, foster care, abuse and neglect investigations and the child welfare manual. The Family Support Division helps to ensure that families achieve an appropriate level of self-support and care through needs...
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...Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine the business case for ethnic diversity in the British National Health Service (NHS). It seeks to contextualise issues around diversity within the current political environment, and identify the barriers to diversity in the NHS. The business case has been very strongly argued as justification for introducing both managing diversity and equal opportunity initiatives - here the paper examines the inconsistencies of using that argument, and maintains that the only justification worth presenting is that based on (deontological) moral arguments. Design/methodology/approach - The paper is conceptual in nature exploring the respective cases for diversity using a broad range of the available literature brought together as part of a rapid evidence assessment. It does so in order to make some far-reaching claims about the future justifications for active diversification of senior management in key public sector institutions. Findings - The distinctions between the business and moral cases are false, in that both have ethical reference points. However, the business case is not only difficult to translate to public sector institutions; there are also evidential problems with its adoption. In light of this the conclusion here is that the moral (deontological) case is the only one that has any long term value for proponents of diversity. Originality/value - The value of this paper is that it examines the confusion that surrounds different cases...
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...represented the need for reform. Each stage of the emergency care system went under review, from access to GP services and ambulance response times, to the experience of the patient upon arrival in hospital through to the provision of treatment and care packages allowing them to be discharged home again. The reports objectives were to cut ambulance response times to life-threatening emergencies, end widespread bed-blocking in the NHS, improve access to GP and other primary care professionals, minimise cancellations of on-day surgery and cut accident and emergency (A&E) waiting times to under 4 hours. This would, in the reports opinion, “bring the response to everyday events up to this first class standard” (DoH, 2001b, p. 1). A number of challenges faced this reform and were highlighted by the report. Workforce issues, for example staff capacity in A&E departments, were overstretched due to the significant increase in the demand for emergency services. To combat this, the increase in funding for the recruitment of A&E Nurses and consultants outlined in ‘The NHS Plan, A plan for investment, a plan for reform’, (DoH, 2000, p. 77), meant that at busier periods, senior presence would still be available and the demand met without causing delays to patients. The resources used by emergency care services are often fully stretched. The report highlighted how capacity in hospitals is not sufficient and this, along with delays in discharging patients from hospital impacts these resources...
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...Kingdom’s health service, inception of the National Health Service, challenges the NHS faces regarding financial sustainability, providing effective and efficient care, and the move towards more privatization . Comparisons are made between the National Health Service and heathcare in the United States across multiple sectors that include acute care settings, skilled nursing facilities, primary care providers and regualtions governing nursing practice and the challenges faced by both systems. Table of Contents Introduction 4 Background 4 Impression of the NHS 5 Mr. John Smith Director, Civil Eyes Research 7 Mr. Andrew Cheesbrough, CEO Orders of St. John Care Trust 8 Mr. Robert Creighton, Transition Director and Government Advisor on Public Health 9 Dr. Elizabeth Fellows-Smith. Senior Policy Advisor, Mental Health 10 Dr. Rodney Taylor, Former Medial Director NHS Hospital 12 Professor Simon de Lusignan, Primary Care 12 Mr. Bernell Bussue, Director of London Region,Royal College of Nursing 12 Mr. Paul Holdom, CEO The London Clinic 14 Professor Duncan Empy, Group Medical Director of BMI Healthcare 14 Shirley Kramer, Chief Executive Institute of Healthcare Management 16 Strengths and Weaknesses 16 Summary 17 References 19 Introduction Since its inception in 1948, the United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS) formed an ideology that gave birth to the NHS’s service delivery and is simplistic...
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...support system in their personal life. I would also consider recommending inpatient treatment facilities, depending on the severity of the client’s symptoms. If the client can reduce the consumption of substances, then the symptoms may lessen for schizophrenic disorder. Some of the symptoms they are presenting may disappear as the substance use does. Interview Question 3: In your experience, what are some common barriers that may hinder the implementation of evidence-based treatments for co-occurring disorders? How can these barriers be overcome to ensure optimal outcomes for clients? Response: Some common barriers that may hinder the implementation of evidence-based treatments are when the person does not have support. With no support I mean no family, friends, or even someone that they feel comfortable with. These barriers can be overcome by the mental health professionals meeting with the person and checking in on them consistently to give them reassurance and building a relationship with them which gives that person a sense of someone they can trust. Another way these barriers can be overcome is by having them attend AA, NA, etc. Having a sense of community lessens the loneliness feeling. Interview Question 4: When developing a treatment plan for individuals with co-occurring schizophrenia and substance use disorders, what factors should be considered? Are there any specific interventions or strategies that you find particularly beneficial in such cases? Response: When developing...
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...where digitalisation has become a key priority in the quest to improving healthcare outcomes for patients. Market Overview The importance of technology and information technology (IT) systems in meeting the challenges placed on the health care system is becoming increasingly apparent. The NHS is currently driving a technological revolution with the vision of becoming paperless by 2018. As a result, there is an increase in demand for SME’s like PathWay to contribute to increasing efficiency and working systems in the NHS by providing technological solutions. Our aim is to launch our product one hospital at a time, beginning with UCLH. PathWay will address the problems faced in monitoring patient’s results in a busy healthcare setting. It will improve efficacy and resolve dependability on having to log on at selected terminals to receive patient results. As a result, it will allow healthcare professionals to provide immediate and timely care to patients at risk. This concept will be of great benefit not only to the product users, but also to patients as it improves healthcare outcomes by improving efficiency in the NHS. There is a great potential for growth for PathWay in the market of this NHS technological revolution. Product Overview PathWay is an integrated mobile phone application that will provide a platform for capturing real-time patient information and to live-stream patient data to a clinician, allowing them to interpret and respond to information remotely. As well...
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...With regards to this assignment the aims are to analyse patterns of health within the adult population regarding health disease and exclusion, whilst also having the ability to assess the health needs and the impacts they have on individuals and their communities. The assignment targets to analyse and investigate public health perspectives, ideologies, with the use of current legislation and policies. Public health aims to help people avoid becoming ill with strategies to help stay healthy, this is defined by the Department of Health (2012) which states a variety of policy areas of concern, these include immunisations, alcohol, drug users, sexual health, pregnancy, smoking, alcohol and a child’s health (DOH, 2012). The health issue chosen for this assignment will be smoking in pregnancy and the implications smoking can have with regards to health issues and the problems faced globally, nationally and within a chosen demographical area. In order to clarify what is meant by the term ‘health’ an understanding must be achieved and although according to the World Health Organisation (1986) health being ‘a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity’. Although this is a highly thought of definition according to Macaulay & Herbert (2011) the (WHO, 1986) definition of health is no longer appropriate and should be changed towards ‘the ability to adapt and self-manage in the face of social, physical, and emotional challenges’...
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...Working in partnership | Introduction: When people doing a job together in a same time with a same quest it is as usually known as working in partnership. Many tough job can be solved if people working with together, different types of reason are existing on a partnership contract and that might develop work or ideas. There have a lots of reason are beneath on a group of people working as a partnership. When a crew of people working with together their ideas will be developed and generated by others. Some of partners among the group will be able to sharing their valuable skill and knowledge in a successful way to assure your partnership activity. If you want to discover people who are working with you as a partner you will not have to look so wide. There are lots of people who are interested to work with you if you see they may your neighbors, classmate, local council, community etc. Just remember one thing before starting work as a partner it is very badly need to think why you want and why your partners want to work with you together. Task 1: Fathom the partnership metaphysics and relationships about health and social care services: 1(a) the philosophical approach taken by practitioners at Dilly’s Diabetic Centre The philosophical approach is a constitutional graph to archive the fact of an affair and the credibility of related people. Depending on strategy constitutional graph vary for person to person, organization to organization. This approach is system...
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...The purpose of this essay is to look at barriers of compassion and what nurses could do overcome these barriers. Three sub topics will be looked at over the course of this essay and a conclusion will be made to evaluate these essays findings and to provide some input into battling these barriers so that patients can receive high standards of patient care. The definition of compassion in the oxford dictionary is ''sympathetic pity and concern for the suffering or misfortunes of others''. Oxford dictionary (2013) However senior lecturer Penny Harrison says there is no accurate definition for compassion as it is a word that can be understood in different ways. Harrison, P. (2009) The importance of compassion is vital in any care setting where there are vulnerable people. The nurses, doctors and any other healthcare professional that is part of the team who deliver the care need to understand how important it is to understand this concept. Delivering compassion care can be something as small as holding somebody’s hand when they are in the later stages of their life, if they feel scared or another thing is as simple as listening to the patient and to hear their problems. The patient will feel better and the nurse should feel good about themselves too knowing that something as small as holding somebody’s hand or listening has benefited that patient. The nursing standard had a report on how student nurses are eager to deliver good and professional compassionate care to their patients...
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...Within in this essay I will be looking at three different approaches to health education, explaining two models of behaviour change that have been used in recent health education campaigns, and assessing how the social context may influence the ability of health education campaigns to change behaviour in relation to health. Health promotion involves doing things to prevent disease and to improve individual and community’s health. Health promotion offers solutions to many of the health problems facing society such as obesity, lack of exercise and smoking though developing skills and knowledge, community action, supportive environments, healthy public policy and health services. Health promotion helps individuals or communities to increase control over and improve their health and wellbeing. The features of health promotion are that it is based on a holistic view of health; it uses participatory approaches it focuses on the determinants and addressing of health not just health problems and conditions. These include the social, behavioural, environmental and economic conditions that are the root cause of poor health, wellbeing and illness such as education, income, employment, working conditions, social status. Health promotion builds on existing strengths and assets and it uses multiple, complementary approaches to promote health for the individual, community and population as a whole. There are three main approaches to health education. The approaches have been used to as a...
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...Working in partnership | Introduction: When people doing a job together in a same time with a same quest it is as usually known as working in partnership. Many tough job can be solved if people working with together, different types of reason are existing on a partnership contract and that might develop work or ideas. There have a lots of reason are beneath on a group of people working as a partnership. When a crew of people working with together their ideas will be developed and generated by others. Some of partners among the group will be able to sharing their valuable skill and knowledge in a successful way to assure your partnership activity. If you want to discover people who are working with you as a partner you will not have to look so wide. There are lots of people who are interested to work with you if you see they may your neighbors, classmate, local council, community etc. Just remember one thing before starting work as a partner it is very badly need to think why you want and why your partners want to work with you together. Task 1: Fathom the partnership metaphysics and relationships about health and social care services: 1(a) the philosophical approach taken by practitioners at Dilly’s Diabetic Centre The philosophical approach is a constitutional graph to archive the fact of an affair and the credibility of related people. Depending on strategy constitutional graph vary for person to person, organization to organization. This approach is system...
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...microorganism has successfully established a site of infection in the host does disease occur”, Janeaway et al (2001). When working in Mexico, there are certain infectious diseases prevalent, and transmission of these diseases can happen through a variety of methods such as direct contact with other infected humans or animals, indirectly by touching infected objects or via airborne transmission. Reports suggest over one million people die from vector borne diseases every year, such as malaria from mosquitos carrying pathogens from host to host, WHO (2014). Whilst working or travelling, should you succumb to an infection or disease, your body will try to defend itself using non-specific mechanisms, such as mechanical, chemical and biological barriers against pathogens to respond to the infection or disease, Tunkel (2012). However individual behavioural practices, and promotion to others of those practices, can prevent contracting or spreading those infectious diseases. These include frequent hand washing after sneezing or coughing, the use of alcohol based disinfectants for hands and following immunisation guidelines for the country,...
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...Task C In this task I am going to explore all of the possible barriers which may make communication ineffective. Barriers are factors which slow down the process of communication of any kind. Possible features of barriers that could occur are environmental; sensory; cultural; gender and age differences; ignoring others body language. Practices such as offloading and imposing own views; shyness; aggressiveness; lack of self-awareness and haste. Certain barriers can be prevented however, by awareness and adaptation to situations. Within most health and social care settings, situations within these features are expected, therefore preparation should be taken to identity for when they occur. The barriers which may occur include: Physical barriers which pertain to the physical distance between two people, Personal barriers which involve parts of an individual’s communication competence between those communicating, sematic barriers which involve the way in which we interoperate and understand the word used in the interaction for example ‘bimonthly’ means twice a month but the person who is listening may interpret it to ‘once a month’. Gender/age difference Cultural Ignoring others body language Environmental Barriers Barriers Offloading and imposing Own views ...
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