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Flashcards by Dearbhail McNult, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Dearbhail McNult
about 10 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Statutory Care/Sector | Care services provided by law. Usually provided by public or government-controlled organisations such as NHS trust |
| Voluntary Care/Sector | Care services, provided free of change or for a small fee, by non-profit making organisations |
| Private Care/Sector | Care services, provided to people that are willing and able to pay for them, organisations and individuals practitioners who sell care serves. |
| Independent Sector | A collective term for the private and voluntary sectors |
| Informal Sector | Care provided by relatives and friends on an unpaid basis |
| Provider Organisation | Care Organisation that delivers care services directly to service users |
| Purchaser Organisation | An organisation that commissions or buys care services on behalf of an individual or group of people |
| Mixed Economy of Care | A care system that combines public, private, voluntary & informal sector provision |
| Internal Market | a 'market' that was introduced in the early 1990's to promote competition between statutory and other care providers |
| Legislation | A collective term for laws that are passed by parliment |
| Statute | an act of parliament examples; The children Act 1989, The mental health Act 1983, Human Rights Act 1993 |
| Inter-professional working | Team working arrangements where care practitioners with different disciplinary backgrounds work collectively to meet and manage the care needs of a service user or client. |
| Local Government | The local, as apposed to national, level of government |
| Multi-Agency Working | A situation where care practitioners employed by different care organisation 'agencies' collaborate to provide care for a particular individual. Also known as partnership working or inter-professional working. |
| Primary Care | The 'first line' or 'first contact' care usually provided by community-based health care workers, such as GP's or district nurses. |
| Primary Care Trusts | Public Sector organisation that monitor and manage the work of primary care providers in a local area. |
| Professional Referral | A request by one care professional for care services to be provided by another care professional |
| Self-Referral | A direct request by an individual for health care services. Going to see a GP is an example of self-referral. |
| Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI) | A body that monitors, inspects and regulates standards of care in the social care sector GB. |
| Health Care Commission | A body that monitors inspects and regulates standards of care in the health care sector. |
| RQIA | monitors, inspects and regulates standards of care in the social care sector. |
| Care Planning Cycle/Process | A multi stage cycle used by care practitioners to produce and implement individualized care plans |
| Holistic Assessment | An assessment that focuses on the 'whole person' rather than on a specific or partial aspect of their functioning. |
| Mission Statement | A formal statement if a care organisations aims or objectives. It sets out the organisations sense of purpose or 'mission'. |
| Organisational Culture | The values, beliefs and assumptions that influence the practices, procedures ways of working and 'atmosphere' of an organisation. |
| Role | The job, task or function that a person has. |
| Individual Care | Care that is planned and delivered to meet the specific needs of an individual. |
| Accoutabillity | Being responsible for someone or for something, being answerable to someone when an incident or an event occurs. |
| Team-building | The process of developing a group of employees into an effective work team. |
| Audit | A process of examining or checking activity or performance against a required standard. An inspection of standards in the workplace. |
| Clinical Governance | The process of improving the quality of care by controlling and improving work systems in a care organisation. |
| Charters | Documents that set out the targets & standards of services that a care organisation seeks to achieve in its work with service users. |
| National Service Framework | Service standards for specific ares of care practice that are defined by government. Care organisations are expected to provide and achieve levels of service delivery that meet these standards. |
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