A2 - The Healthcare Sector Flashcards
What are the sectors within healthcare?
NHS
Private
Non-profit
Working Environments e.g. hospital, GP surgery, community setting, residential setting, service user’s home, judicial care
What is primary healthcare?
Often the first point of contact that is accessed directly by the patient.
General care that requires public participation and deals with acute medical problems
What is secondary healthcare?
Services which individuals are referred to that provides specialised, planned care.
What is tertiary healthcare?
Often long-term care that is highly specialised.
Can be respite for families at end of life care.
What factors can dictate the services accessed by an individual?
Personal factors: -Pre-existing health conditions -Physical Disabilities -Mental health disorders -Different ages Barriers: -Socioeconomic -Psychological -Physical -Cultural and Language -Geographical
How do different developments in technology support the healthcare sector?
Health Applications:
- Promotes healthier choices
- Promotes independent -management of health conditions
Assistive computer technology:
-Supports the health team to treat or manage conditions more efficiently.
Artificial Intelligence:
- Supports health professionals to stay informed in relation to trends in condition and response from a wider pool of individuals
- Support diagnosis through use of patient data/images and complex algorithms
When was the NHS founded?
5th July 1948
When was the NHS act passed?
1946
What is the importance of adhering to national, organisational and departmental policies?
- Provide quality standardised care for all patients and service users.
- Ensure safety of all service users
- Prevent errors
- Provide consistency
- Promote health and wellbeing
- Ensure safety and wellbeing of practitioners
What are the possible consequences of not following a policy?
- Health and safety risks
- Harm to self and the individual
- Termination of employment
- Negative media coverage
- Implications for inspection/grading
- Deregistration for registered practitioners.
- Potential criminal investigations.
What does evidence-based practice mean?
Leading scientific and mathematical research evidence and data collection, used to inform practice and decision making.
How can evidence-based practice be applied?
Combine research findings with clinical expertise and professional judgement.
Describe the resulting job roles for a flat organisational structure
Resulting job roles:
- Management roles
- Caring roles
- Ancillary roles
Describe the resulting job role for a tiered hierarchical organisational structure
Resulting job roles:
- Management roles
- Caring roles + ancillary roles
What is a multidisciplinary team?
Composed of professionals who are from different disciplines who work together independently of each other to conduct assessments, plan intervention and delivers services
How do multidisciplinary teams work together efficiently?
- Provide respect for colleagues.
- Build rapport and positive relationships.
- Take ownership of own job roles and responsibilities
- Take on board feedback and provide constructive, effective feedback to others.
- Share best practice and contribute to discussions to support problem solving.
- Actively listening to colleagues’ contributions
What is the importance of job descriptions?
Provides information about the:
- Scope of the role
- Responsibilities and reporting lines
- Accountabilities
- Accurate job experience
What are the potential impacts of external factors on the activities of the healthcare sector?
- Service overload
- Insufficient staff resources
- Inaccessible services
- Damage to facilities
- Additional resource requirements
- Effect on supply chain
What is contingency planning?
Developing multiple future scenarios and the plans to accompany each scenario using a “what if”; a dynamic environment
Describe the role of the public health approaches
To determine health issues through collecting information regarding the extent of the issue, who it impacts and the effects
To determine why a particular health issue might occur
What is the benefit of public health approaches?
- Provides education on how to live healthier lifestyles and self-care.
- Raises awareness
- Reduction in required social care services
- Improves generational prospects
How does evidence based practice benefit and improve the healthcare sector?
- Facilitates improvement in person centred care
- Improves outcome for individuals
- Improves safety
Describe the “flat” organisational structures
Everything on the same level
Describe the ways that the public healthcare sector is funded
Taxes, national insurance, government health sector policy
Describe the ways that the private healthcare sector is funded
One off payments, premiums, health policy
Describe the origins of the NHS
1948, after many years of debate and discussion from the early 1900s
