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