Key Aspects Of The NHS Constitution

Person centred practice is where all service users should be treated as individuals and their care that they require and support needs should reflect this. Each and every service user will have specific individual needs and their care plans and support should be tailored to suit their needs. By seeing the person as an individual and recognising their diversity puts the individual at the centre of their care.

Health Professionals may find it challenging to adapt all these principles set by different foundations e.g. The Health Foundation, without managerial and organisational support. The Trusts must have a learning culture where the staff can build on their interpersonal and communication skills with the patients as well as the staff in order to provide effective person-centred care. The trust’s culture must also pay great importance to appropriate safeguarding policies in order avoid any failings in

This is a reflection on continuing professional and personal development in practice. This reflection is to allow me to improve profeesionally with supportive, evidence based literature and to enable me to evaluate the impact my professional behaviour as a student and future midwife. My learning need is to focus on the importance of professional behaviour when on placement and working with women, their families and members of the multi-disciplinary team (MDT).

Medicine is a practice based on moral standards applied to clinical values and judgments, also known as medical ethics. Ethical values consists of beneficence, nonmaleficence, autonomy and justice. However, these ethical principles are affected when distributive justice and rationing of health care resources are implemented “…in a world in which need is boundless but resources are not…” (Scheunemann & White, 2011, p. 1630).

Health Care in the US is arguably available to all who seek it but not everybody has had the same experience and treatment when walking through the doors of a healthcare facility. In many cases, people are discriminated against due to their gender, race/ethnicity, age, and income and are often provided with minimal service. Differences between groups in health coverage, access to care, and quality of care is majorly affected through these disparities. Income is a major factor and can cause groups of people to experience higher burden of illness, injury, disability, or mortality relative to another group.

Provision one, a provision in the American Nurses Association Code of Ethics for Nurses, entails that nurses should pursue their nursing career with empathy and respect towards all patients. In other words, patients should be viewed as separate individuals with separate values and beliefs. Nurses and other healthcare professionals should respect their individual decisions, whether they agree with them or not. This code of ethics provision relates to the ethical dilemma of a patient refusing medical treatment. Although nurses are trained to do all that they are capable of doing to save patients’ lives, sometimes nurses reach a dilemma that puts a strain on their practice. At times, patients’ refuse medical treatment, even if the treatment will

The first individual right under the health care system is "rights related to receiving services provided under healthcare, health financing, or health insurance laws. An example of this right is the Patient Self Determination Act. This act is a federal law that requires health care organizations, such as hospitals and nursing homes to provide information on advance directives, must ask you whether you have an advance directive, and provide information of your rights under state law, such as the right to refuse treatment. This law ensures that a patient 's right to self-determination in health care decisions is communicated.

A person-centred approach to nursing focuses on the individuals needs, wants, goals and desires so that they become central to the care and nursing process (OpenLearn, 2015). According to The Department of Health (State of Victoria, Australia), person-centred care is a philosophical approach to care, ensuring that service systems are developed in partnership with older people and/or their carers (Health.vic.gov.au, 2015). PCC is treating patients as they want to be treated and about working together with older adults on things they enjoy doing and things that are important to them without restraint of routines (Kearns, 2013).

Person-centred care is about focusing on the needs of the person as a whole and not the service, it means treating people with dignity, respect, compassion, and care is personalised these are the four main principles to person-centred care. Tom Kitwood (1997) cited in (The Open University, 2017) supports the approach of seeing and treating people as individuals, he calls this ‘person-centred care’. This approach looks at the physical, social and psychological needs of the individual. Person-centred care encourages people to have more involvement in making decisions about their care so they get the support and service they need. There are three main types of long-term care settings such as residential care homes which offer different degrees of personal care, Nursing homes offer care which requires the skills of qualified nursing staff and long-stay hospitals which offer a more specialised medical care. (The Open University, 2017).

The NHS Constitution established the principles and values that are fundamental to service users on how appropriate clinical decisions are made for the delivery of quality care (Department of Health 2010). It provides explicit information for patients to understand their care, what to expect, and feel more empowered involving in their own care (DH 2010). The NHS constitution explains the behaviour expected from stakeholders such as staff, patients and the public (DH 2010). This prevent the government from making alteration and give the NHS complete autonomy and protection against political change without the full involvement of stakeholders to achieve transparency in the delivery of care (DH 2010).

According to the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation (2012), health and health care disparity refer to differences in the health and health care between population groups. The health disparity generally refers to a higher burden of illness, injury, disability, or mortality experienced by one population group relative to another. A health care disparity typically refers to the differences between groups in health coverage, access to care, and quality of care. While disparities are commonly viewed through the lens of race and ethnicity, they occur across many dimensions, including socioeconomic status, age, location, gender, disability status, and sexual

Learning the codes of practice ensures that I promote and uphold the privacy, dignity and rights of the clients I care for and that I strive to improve the quality of healthcare, care and support through continuing professional development. I achieve this within my job role by ensuring that the service users and their families are informed and included in all aspects of their care

What is counselling? Therapy comes in many forms, from behavioural therapies, to psychodynamic and psychoanalytic therapies to humanistic therapies. Each of these will be discussed in the summary of ‘What is counselling? The promise and the problem of talking therapies. – Feltham (1995)’. Many opinions and different theorists will be debated in psychology, the history of counselling, it’s many different theories and researchers that have contributed to the improvement pf psychology and our understanding.

In order to deal with the issue of medical negligence in the NHS, the Government had formed a funded pool of resources and capitals to accommodate the costs of claims whish are brought against the NHS. Later in 1995, the NHS Litigation Authority (NHSLA) was set up to contest law suits on behalf of the Secretary of State. NHS Trust on the basis of assessments of their risk management procedures. The NHS Litigation Authority was created to deal with claims from patients who have been harmed while undergoing NHS treatment. It aims to pay justified claims promptly and fairly, and to defend unjustified claims

This paper will analyze broader healthcare ethic principles and laws dealing with non-maleficence (where a physician’s obligation of first, do no harm’ to a patient), beneficence (providing benefits and balancing them against risks to a patient of specific treatment) have influenced the ACHE’s code of ethics. Moreover, this analysis will examine how the ACHE’s code of ethic closely aligns with my ethics assessment (specifically with regards to, ‘respecting the practices and customs of a diverse patient protecting the patients right to autonomy’, ‘ensuring adherence to ethics-related policies and practices affecting patients and staff ’)(ACHE's Ethics Self-Assessment). In addition, this paper will examine how the ACHE’ code of ethics was established