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Overview of National Initiatives |
Guide providers of health, social and child care environments and practitioners about their roles, rights and responsibilities.
The Four we look at;
1) The Care Certificate
2) Quality Assurance Initiatives [i.e, Ofsted and Care Quality Commission (CQC)]
3) EHRC- Equality & Human Rights Commission
4) NICE- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence |
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The Care Certificate |
[Consists of 15 standards]
- A set of minimum standards that health & social care workers are required to work towards in their day to day tasks.
- Aims to ensure that all care workers have the same skills, knowledge and behaviours to provide compassionate, safe and high quality care and support.
- The assessment of the required skills must be undertaken in the workplace. |
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The Care Certificate: The 15 Standards |
[These make up The Care Certificate;] 1) Understand your role 2) Your personal development 3) Duty of care 4) Equality & Diversity 5) Work in a person-centred way 6) Communication 7) Privacy & Dignity 8) Fluids & Nutrition 9) Awareness of mental health, dementia & learning disabilities 10) Safeguarding Adults 11) Safeguarding Children 12) Basic life support 13) Health & Safety 14) Handling information 15) Infection Prevention & Control |
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Quality Assurance |
External bodies are involved in regulating and inspecting the quality of health, social and child care environments. Health & Social Care services in England are monitored for safety and quality by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), an independent regulator. Childcare environments in England are monitored by the Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted). |
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Ofsted |
Carries out inspections that rate child care settings and schools from outstanding to inadequate (the same as the 4 CQC ratings)
Aspects included; - Effectiveness of leadership and management
-Quality of teaching, learning and assessment
- Personal development, behaviour and welfare
- Outcomes for children and learners
- Effectiveness of safeguarding Like CQC, they publish reports that identity good practice and indicate what needs to be improved. They put failing schools into special measures and re-inspects to monitor progress and improvement. (A failing school will now automatically become an Academy) |
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How do National Initiatives such as the CQC and Ofsted help to improve practice? |
- Inspection reports identify good practice/ what needs improving- so practitioners know their weaknesses and strengths.
Provide clear guidelines to follow- so they know what is expected.
- Ensures legislation are being followed.
- Encourages a person-centred approach.
- Ensures individuals are correctly supported. |
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Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) |
Has a website that provides information, advice and guidance about discrimination. It offers the following; - It provides clear definitions of the types of discrimination. - It gives advice on how you can decide if what happened to you was against equality law. - It suggests ways to sort out the situation with the person or organisation. - It advises on how to make a discrimination complaint. - It provides contact details for a telephone equality-advisor and support-service helpline. |
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National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) |
Has a number of roles around assessing drugs and treatments to establish their effectiveness for patients and if they are cost-effective for the NHS.
It's main roles are;
- To assess new drugs and treatments as they become available.
- To provide evidence-based guidelines on how particular conditions should be treated.
- To provide guidelines on how public health and social care services can best support people.
- To provide information services for those managing and providing health and social care services.
-To improve outcomes for those who use the NHS and other public health and social care services.
When it comes to assessing the suitability of a drug or treatment NICE will consider whether; •It benefits patients •Will help the NHS meets its targets (e.g, will it improve cancer survival rates) •Is it cost-effective •Should it be available on the NHS |
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How does completing the Care Certificate benefit a carer? |
>Confidence in knowing they can do their job to the required standard. >Knowledge of how to provide quality care. >Knows what it means to be caring. >Skills to perform quality care. >Know how to provide safe/ high standards of care/ able to improve their work standard. >Know how to provide compassionate care/ Respect/ trusting relationship. >Provides clear guidance for them to follow. >Provides a basis for future career development/ job opportunities/ adds to CV/ may earn more money-better job. >Better understanding of equality, rights & Diversity. >Better understanding of appropriate legislation. |
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What benefits are there for an organisation/service provider if new staff have completed the Care Certificate? |
- Ensures that the staff member can be capable and appropriate. -Staff will have the knowledge of legislations to follow the law and will be able to provide person-centred care and respect & satisfy rights. |
