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equality diversity and inclusion policy.

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Equality Act 2010- legal protection from discrimination.

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what are the protected characteristics of the equality Act 2010

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age
disability
gender reasignment
pregnncy and maternity
race
religion and belief
sex
sexual orintation

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what is indirect discrimination

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where a practise, policy or rule applies to everyone in the workplace but could have a worse effect on some people than others.

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Safeguarding policies

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means ensuring people from harm.
“protecting peoples health, wellbeing and human rights.”

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What is a DBS check

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a basic check shows any unspent convictions and conditianal cautions.
a standard check
an enhanced check
an enhanched check with barred list.

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employment contracts

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sets out:
employment conditions
rights
responsibilities
duties

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performance reviews objectives

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evaluating work performance against standards and expectations or targets

giving feedback

provinding oppertunities to raise concerns or issues

contributing to professinal development. identifiying areas where you need more training.

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disciplinary policie

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if your employer has concerns with your work conduct or absence of work. A disciplinary policie is a formal way for an employer to deal with an employees unacceptable behaviour (misconduct)/ performance.

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disciplinary procedure

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a letter setting out the disciplinary issue
a meeting to dicuss the issue
a decision about the disciplinary issue
a chance to apeal the decision

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what is a greivence policy

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when employees have problems or concerns about their work or working conditions they may have problems witht their relationship with colleges. if you take this up with your employer it is called ‘rasining a greivence’.

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importance of adhearing to quality standards quality management and audit processes.

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ensuring consistancy
maintaining health and safety
monitoring procces and procedures. and facilitating continous improvement but also objective independent review.

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Key principles of ethical practise in the health and science sector

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benefience ‘doing good’.all healthcare proffesions need to follow the best car wiwht th ebest intreast of th epatient.

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what is nonmaleficence?

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maleficence ‘doing harm’ so nonmaleficence is ‘not doing harm’

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what is autonomy and informed consent

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autonomy means everyone has the right to make the final decision on care or treatment.

informed consent means that before making a decision on treatment the person recieving the car ehas the right to be given all the relevent information about care or treatment.

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what is truthfullness and confidentiality

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confidentiality is centrall to the relationship between the patient/care giver/general public and doctors and health care staff on another. lac of confidentiallity may lead to loss fo trust.

truthfullness is an obligation on the part of science and healthcare staff. we have an obligation to be truthfull.

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what is justice?

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justice can mean fairness, equality and respect for all

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what is the purpose of following professinal codes of conduct

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professinal codes of conduct will usally follow the same format.
they clarify the missions (aims) of the organization and its values and principles .
they clarify the standards that everyone must adhere to.they outline proffesinal behaviours and attitudes.

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phases of clinical testing trials

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phase one:
trialling the drug with small numbers of healthy volenteers to test safely and establish the dose needed.
Phase two:
larger trials to judge how well the drug works.
Phase three:
even larger trials carried out in many hospitals often worldwide, to compare the drug excisiting treatments and look at potential side effects.

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what is quality assurance

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are procedures designed to prevent errrors or defects in procedures or proccesses
cheaper to get it right the first time

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what is quality control?

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focusses on identification of errors at completed products and proccesses .
high wastage costs

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whats the difference between a job descrition and a person specification

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a job description is a detailed description of the individual roles of the job ie. responsibilities objectives.

person specification
is a profile of the necassary skills required for the job

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main principles of Good laboratory pracitise (GLP)

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resources, staffing levels should be sufficient to perform the required tests. qualifications and training of staff should be documented.

rules, study plan/protocol.

characterisation, as much as possible should be known about the materials used.

documentation. all raw data must be documented and a final report must show/interoret how the results corralate

quality assurance.

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what is good manufacturing process (GMP)

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are of constint hogh quality
are appropiate for their intended use
meet requirements for thr product specification.

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