Data is the collection of findings that help to elaborate statistics. Statistics are presented in several ways including tables, graphs and charts or it could also be exposed in a written report. Statistics gives us the interpretation and analysis of the collected data. Health care providers such as the NHS, uses processed collected data from Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) which firstly was sent to them by local councils and primary care trusts through Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) data collection.
The DoLS protects vulnerable adults, that lack of mental capacity to make their own decisions, from being deprived of their liberty unless necessary. For example, those suffering from learning disabilities, or those who suffered from mental health conditions. The NHS and social care providers must be able to identify these circumstances not to breach any of the requirements stipulated …show more content…
In order to avoid these, it is fundamental that NHS and providers of care comply with their duties of self-actualisation. Another reason for the increase could be that there is more information available to the public, therefore more people are aware of the application process and can suggest its use to people who they think might need the service.
Due to the fact that some of the collected data was provided by unreliable resources, its lack of veracity could affect when the Welfare and NHS’s interpretation of the wrong figures is used to the creation of new policies and legislation regarding the DoLS, this might lead to delays in the policy-making process in the long term. While these get fixed, they could face a raise in the number of applications made resulting in people being deprived of their liberty, totally against of what the NHS believes in and
The DoLS protects vulnerable adults, that lack of mental capacity to make their own decisions, from being deprived of their liberty unless necessary. For example, those suffering from learning disabilities, or those who suffered from mental health conditions. The NHS and social care providers must be able to identify these circumstances not to breach any of the requirements stipulated …show more content…
In order to avoid these, it is fundamental that NHS and providers of care comply with their duties of self-actualisation. Another reason for the increase could be that there is more information available to the public, therefore more people are aware of the application process and can suggest its use to people who they think might need the service.
Due to the fact that some of the collected data was provided by unreliable resources, its lack of veracity could affect when the Welfare and NHS’s interpretation of the wrong figures is used to the creation of new policies and legislation regarding the DoLS, this might lead to delays in the policy-making process in the long term. While these get fixed, they could face a raise in the number of applications made resulting in people being deprived of their liberty, totally against of what the NHS believes in and