Unit 7: Meeting Individual Needs

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Unit 7: Meeting Individual Needs
- Legislation (Legal requirement that sets out standards)
  - Strengths
    - Makes people accountable
    - Promotes good quality care
    - Gives a framework for policies
  - Weaknesses
    - People might not follow (Complience)
      - They might not understand the legislation
      - Down to interprettion
    - Might not be accurate or correct
    - Difficult to monitor whether or not the legislation is being enforced
- Care Sectors
  - Private
    - Set up to provide services 'at a price'
    - I.e Schools, child care providers, private care homes, complimentary medicines.
  - Informal
    - Care given my family, friends, or neighbours
  - Statutory
    - Set up as a requirement by law
    - Paid through taxes
    - Expected to provide a range of sources (i.e. NHS, Social Services)
  - Voluntary
    - Set up by charities
    - Provide service free of charge
    - Non-Profit making
    - Depend on fund raising and government grants
- Care Planning
  - Guidelines on how to meet someones needs
  - Between the care worker and service user
  - Individuals needs are identified, assessed and adressed
  - Cycle
    - start: Assess (Holistic)
      - Planning
        Impliment
        monitor plan
        Review/ Evaluate
    - Service user input! (Empowerment)
- Multi Disciplinary Teams
  - Aim: Provide effective and holistic care
  - Effective team
    - Clear objectives
    - Effective management
    - Established roles and responsibilities
    - Effective communication
    - Commitment and high standards
  - Advantages
    - Good quality teamwork provides successful and holistic care
    - Effective care reducing time spent hospitilised
    - Consistency of care
    - sharing of good practice
    - Effective time management
    - Easier to monitor and review
    - enhance patient satisfaction
    - Cost effective
    - Prevent overlap of care
    - effective use of resources
  - Disadvantages
    - Repeated care
    - Needs are not always met
    - Clashes in different care approches
    - Poor communication and dissagreements
    - Time consuming (reaching decitions, making changes)
    - gaps in care
- Mixed Economy of Care
  - Different types of care where some can be private (costly) and others voluntary (free)
  - Increase cost effectiveness and quality of service.
  - Current Provision of care
    - Regional: Strategic health authorities
    - National: Government
    - Local: Primary care trust, NHS trust
  - Advantages
    - Choice for service users
    - More responsive to needs
    - Cost effective
    - Flexible
  - Disadvantages
    - Two tier system
    - Not always cost effective
    - Uneven 'Postcode Lottery'
- Organisational Culture
  - Personality of the organisation
  - Culture refers to underlying values, beliefs, and codes of practice
  - Values and behaviours that contribute to the (unique social and psychological) environment of an organisation
  - Strong
    - Know, understand and follow policy and procedures
    - Regular training and development
  - Weak
    - Do things just because they have to and just for the money
    - Accept responsibilities out of fear
  - POSITIVE
    - Policies and Procedures are understood
    - EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION
    - TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT
    - Clear job description inc. roles and responsibilities
    - Anti-discriminatory Practice
      - Equality
    - Safety of Everyone
    - Care values
      - Rights of the service user
- Policy
  - Development
    - Start: Define issue
      - Gather information
        Discuss and Debate (board level)
        Draft policy
        Make revisions
        Adopt policy
        Distribute to public
        Oversee the implimentations
        Evaluate and then modify if needed
  - Sets out practices or procedures
    - How to deal/behave in certain situations
  - Put into place due to complaint or accident/incident
  - Ensures standards are being met
  - Safeguarding(workers and service users)
  - Changes may need to be made due to a change in legislation
  - Review/ monitor current policy. Make it 'Fit for Purpose'
- Cultures
  - Power: 1)Power comes fromt he top person 2)Control is the key element 3)Decisions made by usually 1 person 4)negative if feeder is negative
  - Role: 1)Peoples activities are influence by their job descriptions 2)Can become negative if they take it to literal and don't use their initiative
  - Task: 1)Teams formed to achieve targets. 2)Each member of the team will contribute. 3)Like a multidisciplinary team
  - Person: 1)Individual worker is central point of focus 2)individuals will tend to have sting values on how THEY work 3)Certain employees feel more important than the organusation 4)organisation soon takes a back seat and begins to suffer 5)individual doesnt makes decisions in favour of the organisation
Makes people accountable
They might not understand the legislation
Voluntary
- Set up by charities
- Provide service free of charge
- Non-Profit making
- Depend on fund raising and government grants
Independant
POSITIVE
- Policies and Procedures are understood
- EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION
- TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT
- Clear job description inc. roles and responsibilities
- Anti-discriminatory Practice
  - Equality
- Safety of Everyone
- Care values
  - Rights of the service user

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