National initiatives

Question 1

What is a national initiative?

Answer 1

• They guide providers of health, social care and child care environments and practitioners about their roles and responsibilities.

Question 2

What are the different national initiatives?

Answer 2

• The Care Certificate 2014
• Ofsted
• Care Quality Commission
• Equality and Human Rights Commission
• National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

Question 3

What is the Care Certificate 2014?

Answer 3

• It sets out the minimum standards that should be covered in induction training before workers are allowed to work with direct supervision
• It is for ‘unregulated’ jobs roles such as health care assistants rather than professionals such as nurses

Question 4

What are the aims of the Care Certificate 2014?

Answer 4

• Understand your role
• Work in a person-centred way
  Safeguarding children and adults
• Basic life support
• Infection prevention and control

Question 5

What does ofsted do?

Answer 5

• Carries out inspections inspections that rate child care settings and school from ‘outstanding’ to ‘inadequate’

Question 6

What does ofsted inspect on?

Answer 6

• Effectiveness of leadership and management
• Quality of teaching, learning and assessment
• Personal development, behaviour and welfare
• Outcomes for children and learners
• Effectiveness of safeguarding

Question 7

What does Care Quality Commissioner (CQC) do?

Answer 7

• It registers and licenses care services to ensure essential standards of quality and safety are met
• It carries out inspections of health and social care settings to monitor that the care provided continues to meet the standards required
• Publishes inspections
• It can issue warnings and fines if the standards aren’t met

Question 8

What does Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) do?

Answer 8

• Provides definitions of different types of discrimination
• Gives advice on how you can decide if what happened was against equality law
• Suggests ways to sort out the situation with person or organisation
• Advises how to make discrimination complaint

Question 9

What does National Institute for Health and Care Executive (NICE) do?

Answer 9

• Access new drugs and treatments
• Provides evidence-based guidelines on how particular conditions should be treated
• Improves outcomes for people using NHS