Assess The Importance Of Safeguarding In Health And Social Care

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The article states that behaviour that challenges is often considered a result of a persons’ interaction between environmental and person factors. This behaviour can include things such as aggression, withdrawal, self-injury, stereotypical behaviour and destructive/disruptive behaviour as well as other symptoms. The standard is expected to contribute to safeguarding, personal dignity, experience of care, premature mortality and patient safety etc.
Also, families and carers are recognised as having a very important role in supporting those with a learning disability and behaviour that challenges. It also states that where it is appropriate, the health and social care practitioner should make sure they are involved in the decision making process when caring, investigating and treating the patient.

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- Practitioners
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– New quality standards on care for disability/behaviour
Dear all, I am writing to inform you of an article that I recently came across with regards to the new standards set by the ‘National Institute of Health and Care Excellence’ which focuses on caring for children, young people and adults with a learning disability and behaviour that challenges. The standard is expected to contribute to several outcomes such as safeguarding, personal dignity, experience of care, premature mortality and patient safety etc.
The standard explains that carers often do not have enough support from professionals who do not help early enough and don’t have the required knowledge. Therefore, this can lead to overmedicating people with a learning disability in some cases for example. However, the standard focuses on how to make sure that assessment of the patients will lead to them receiving personalised care planning. The standard also makes a range of statements which are aimed at making sure that the approaches used by staff involved with people with learning disabilities support them, while following the least restrictive practice