1601 Health And Social Care Study

PATCH 1

Health and Social care in Britain during the medieval periods was only available through local parish churches, where it was believed to be a Christian duty to undertake the ‘Seven Corporal Works of Mercy’ (Jones 2006).The provision and entitlement of care varied between the many different areas causing many of the poor to migrate to the more generous areas (ibid). This increased the levels of begging and crime creating concerns about social disorder after the reformation of the Church of England when the population’s values began to change towards the poor (Slack 1990). This resulted in the government introducing a series of Acts resulting in the 1601 Poor Law Act, the first appearance of society providing for the
The home has been converted from a barn, surrounded by fields and wildlife. Each service user has their own room with en suite bathrooms, removing the feel of institutional wards of a hospital setting. But the costs of the everyday running, wages and professional specialist services for this group can be expensive to the organisation and the chief executive may not provide the service if it is not seen as a risk to life or essential to that particular service user. Staff wages are low which results in a high staff turn around, low staff moral and staff shortages which effects the quality of care provided. This issue has been raised with the senior management and concluded with the refusal to employ more staff based the belief they have sufficient staff and are providing the required amount of care, according to policies and regulations. However, it could be argued that it is because it will increase the wage bill causing a decrease in the organisations profits. The organisation has to follow the regulations stated in the government white paper 'Valuing People' which has emphasised the importance of the removal institutional living by placing emphasis on the importance of providing the service user with choice (DOH 2001 online). Issues in following this framework often occur in both private and local authority
This has resulted in a low staff because the staff are paid low wages, work long hours and a lack of training that results in service users health needs not be completely met. A contradiction in the 'valuing People' principle of all adults with learning disabilities having the same rights as the rest of the population under the Human Rights Act 1986 (Department of Health 2011 online). The recent development of supported living meets many of the principles in 'valuing people' white paper including Human Rights but there are still