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HND Assignment - Programme title - Pearson BTEC Level 5 HND Diploma in Health and Social Care

Unit number and title - 19 Contemporary Issues in Health and Social Care

Learning Outcomes -

LO1: Understand how information relating to health and social care gives rise to issues of concern to the public.

LO2: Understand how issues of public concern related to health and social care are presented in the media.

LO3: Be able to carry out research into different perspectives on a specific issue relating to health and social care.

LO4: Understand the likely influence contemporary perspectives on health and social care issues have on the development of services.

Assignment title - An understanding of current issues which raise concern that lead to development of services in Health and Social Care.

Introduction and background notes (vocational context) -

It is normal practice in Health and Social Care (HSC) to provide quality information to users of services, because they are generally vulnerable. Any misinformation may cause serious irremediable effect on users. The unit aims to prepare students to convey accurate information on everyday health related issues and also to equip them to combat against misinformation and lessen the taboo that exists in many communities.

Aims of the Unit: This unit will help students gain relevant skills and knowledge in developing their understanding on how current concerns influence the service policy and procedures of HSC in the UK. Practically, student will learn the techniques of identifying current concerns on health care issues when it comes out to public domain through various media. Students will gain knowledge on how the media engineers issues to attract the attention of policy makers from public domain. For example, current tendency of self-harming within a fourth of 14 years age girls in UK (Guardian Newspaper, 29th August, 2018). It has attracted a significant amount of public attention. Once public attention reach its height the policy makers employ their thoughts for policy to handle the crisis and develop the services.

Students will research news media to bring current issues to the classroom for healthy debate which increase the quality of services in HSC. Through classroom debate students will increase their knowledge on how the issues of concern comes to public domain. There is also a scope of learning on how public concern attracts attention of policy makers to develop services in HSC. Current health related issues are not limited to diseases, they could be issues like government austerity measure on social care (funding cut on various care services), winter fuel issue and its effect on poor pensioners, Dr Bawa Garba case outcomes and its impact on service users, or it could be Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).

Some current examples of current issues are: Ebola; Zika Virus; Baby P; SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome); avian influenza; H1N1(Hemagglutinin Type1 and Neuraminidase Type 1 - Influenza Virus); Foot and Mouth disease; Haut de la Garenne Children's Home; Winterbourne View Care Home; Jimmy Savile revelations.

LO1 Understand how information relating to health and social care give rise to issues of concern to the public. (Recommended word report up to 750 words).

What you must do:

Produce a brochure that includes the following information using the case study and your own research.

Q1. Explain how information relating to health and social care reaches the public domain. In your explanation you should use an example of a contemporary health related issue to support the explanation of how a health and social care issue reaches the public domain.

Q2. Analyse different techniques for disseminating information relating to health and social care. In your analysis use the example used above to support the different techniques for disseminating information relating to health and social care.

Q3. Evaluate how the different ways in which information relating to health and social care is presented can influence the attitudes, thoughts and behaviour of people. In your evaluation discuss how differences in the format, style and content of information relating to health and social care.

LO2 Understand how issues of public concern related to health and social care are presented in the media. (Up to 750 words)

Using the case scenario and information found in your own research, you determined that occasionally media presentations may create panic within the service users. You as a deputy manager of your project that is in charge of female development activities is developing a staff memo covering the issue, i.e., what is it, who are the victims and what are the long and short term impacts of the issue within the community. In your memo you must also indicate how it should be publicised and who the targets of the publicity are?

What you must do -

Search the internet using Google for news articles on Contemporary Health and Social Care issue. Pick one issue to use. In your memorandum, you are to:

Q4. Explain ways in which the media may be used to influence the attitudes and behaviour of people in relation to health and social care issues.

Q5. Evaluate how the public can assess the reliability and validity of media information about health and social care.

LO3 Be able to carry out research into different perspectives on a specific issue relating to health and social care

At a conference for health and social care professionals you must present a poster highlighting how to be able to carry out research into different perspectives on a specific issue relating to health and social care. For that presentation you have been asked to pick a health and social care issue that you find interesting and cover the following areas:

What you must do include for your Poster Presentation:

Q6. Carry out research into the different perspective on a specific issue relating to health and social care.

Q7. Monitor how different perspectives gleaned from reliable sources on a specific health and social care issue have changed over time.

Q8. Assess the relevance of the findings to health and social care practice locally.

Q9. Analyse the factors that have influenced the development of different perspectives over a period of time.

LO4: Understand the likely influence contemporary perspectives on health and social care issues have on the development of service. (a report up to 1000 words)

You have been tasked with producing a report that details to the service local attitudes after the large scale media interest, and outlines some of the risks and consequences of what may happen to the service as a result of the news coverage.

Use the Contemporary Health and Social Care issue you chose at the beginning of your assignment as a basis for discussion in your report.

What to do -

Q10. Analyse the extent to which local attitudes reflect those found at a national level.

Q11. Evaluate the validity of public attitudes and behaviours in relation to a specific issue.

Q12 Justify possible consequences of contemporary thinking for health and social care provision and services.

Attachment:- Health and Social Care Assignment File.rar