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Importance of Care Planning in Providing Quality Health Care

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Table of Contents

Care Planning....................................................................................................................2
Care Planning Models.......................................................................................................3
Social Model...................................................................................................................3
Holistic Model.................................................................................................................3
The Biomedical Model....................................................................................................4
Bio Psychosocial Model.................................................................................................4
Policies Regarding Practice Implementation.................................................................4
Monitoring Procedure........................................................................................................6
Planning..........................................................................................................................6
Implementing..................................................................................................................6
Evaluation.......................................................................................................................6
Conclusion......................................................................................................................6
References.....................................................................................................................7
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Importance of Care Planning in Providing Quality Health Care

The main feature of care planning is to provide necessary directions to both
medical professional and patient. An effective care plan contains a unique list of
patient's diagnoses and patient needs that must be fulfilled by a medical professional for
the sole purpose of recovery.

Care Planning
According to several studies conducted around the world, care planning is one of
the most essential parts for an unwell individual. There are advantages of care planning
and one of them is that care planning provides vital directions and procedures for
individualised care of the client. A successful plan consists of the patient's "unique list
of diagnoses" and must be organised by the patient's specific requirements. Knowledge
and skills framework (KSF) have defined some levels or phases that each medical
professional must follow to develop a successful plan (Brinkman-Stoppelenburg, et al.,
2014).
Level 1 contains the undertaking of care activities. This undertaking is done for
the sole purpose of maintaining a patient's wellbeing.
Level 2 also contains the undertaking of care activities for the sole purpose of
maintaining patient's wellbeing but with a "greater degree of dependency".
Level 3 contains planning, care to deliver and care evaluation to meet patient's
wellbeing needs (Crawford, et al., 2002).
Level 4 also contains planning, care to deliver and care evaluation but all these
activities are done to meet the patient's complex social and health care objectives.
According to several studies, each medical professional must follow these levels to
develop a successful care plan.
"National Occupational Standards" have defined that every individual that is
developing a care plan must have necessary skills such as reviewing every aspect of
the situation, evaluating social care practices with carer's groups, different communities,
several families, and other medical professionals to assure the quality of services
provided to the patients.
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This procedure is also backed by “Quality Assurance Agency (QAA)” (Brinkman-

Stoppelenburg, et al., 2014). There are some benchmarks defined by QAA regarding to
care planning and some of them are the monitoring and analysis of social and medical
requirements of the patient relating to “interaction with their environment”, the
improvement of “focused intervention” to fulfil the patient’s requirements, successful
implementation of the procedures and detailed evaluation of the service intervention
and professional influence on consumers and medical patients. "Quality Assurance
Agency (QAA)" has also defined three responsibilities that every individual must fulfil to
carry out health and social care practices (Tambuyzer, Pieters and Van Audenhove,
2014).
The first responsibility is that each medical professional is responsible and
accountable to the patient. The second responsibility is that each medical professional
is accountable to medical managers for the sole purpose of delivering quality care.
The third responsibility is that each medical professional must execute all his legal
practices in accordance with social care teachings.

Care Planning Models

Social Model
This care planning model concentrates on enhancing the skills of both medical
individuals and groups in reducing the risk factor in disability. One of the major roles
played by this model is in “social care” and in those medical facilities where most of the
patient lives with a disability. There are many functions involved in this model but one of
the main functions is to give medical assistance (recovery) as far as the patient is able
(Oliver, 2013).

Holistic Model
This care planning model (not widely used model within health and social care)
concentrates on several requirements such as social, spiritual, environmental, physical
and psychological. All these needs are there to assist the patient in becoming more
empowered over their respective lives. There are several restrictions of this model such
as limited resources, limited time and all these restrictions are a barrier in the
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implementation of this model in different office, from old Greek to Chinese, Indian to
Native American, parental figures and health care beneficiaries had confidence in by
and large health. Regard for the following idea was the way to their practices and
convictions: the health of individuals relied upon internal and external agreement (Neill,
2016).

The Biomedical Model

This care planning model focuses on identifying different symptoms of the illness.
This model mostly used by medical specialist and by those medical professionals that
are working in “complex physical situations” (George and Engel, 1980).

Bio Psychosocial Model

This care planning model concentrates on three major departments of patient's
lives, namely psychological aspects, social aspects and biological aspects. The main
function of this model is to reduce the cost of the medical treatments within medical
facilities (Buckner, et al., 2013). The use of the biopsychosocial approach is important
today for several reasons. The leading causes of death are infectious diseases with
chronic diseases. Social characteristics such as socio-economic status and culture are
also gaining importance. Medical costs continue to increase, and it is important that
medical problems can be prevented and/or detected quickly (Gurung, 2014).

Policies Regarding Practice Implementation

There is a policy in Scotland that make Scottish government accountable to
medical financing, developing healthcare legislation, developing objectives at the
national level and prioritising different task within "National Health Service (NHS)".
There are almost 15 NHS sectors all around Scotland and each of them is accountable
for delivering medical care services to each citizen and for accomplishing objectives set
by the government.
The “Mental Health Act 1983” is an act that was established by the governmental
bodies within the United Kingdom (Irons, 2016). The doctrine of this act is implemented
on each citizen of Wales and England. The doctrine of this act contains medical care,
medical reception and mental treatment regarding mental illeness, constant
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management of the patient's property, etc. This act enables the government of both
England and Wales to give medical treatment, medical diagnoses to each patient having
mental disorder even against their will. This authority is known as “sectioning”. In 2007,
this act was reviewed and amendment by "Mental Health Units" (Irons, 2016)
Individuals confined under the Mental Health Act need pressing treatment for a mental
illness and may harm themselves or others. (Brentano, 2002). The law doesn’t allow an
organisation to plan for any contigence situation as this bonds an organisation to follow
these governmental regulations.
The “Health and Social Care Act 2008” was developed by the government of the
United Kingdom (Stirton, 2017). This Act contains different activities and some of them
are emphasising “National Health Services trust” and “National Health Service
Foundation” of medical care to each patient within the country, another responsibility is
to provide necessary ambulance services of both “National Health Services Trust” and
“National Health Service Foundation”. This act also emphasises primary care trust to
provide necessary health care to each patient within the country. This act also gives
authority to National Health Service to manage that medical treatment that contains
transplant of any organ (this contains delivering/supply of bone morrow, supplying of
different tissues etc.) (Stirton, 2017).
Is a law setting up and building up arrangements for a nature of care
commission; Provide data on therapeutic care (counting arrangement of the national
health administration) and social care; Organise examinations and examinations under
the Mental Health Act 1983; Establish and actualise arrangements for an adjudicator of
the health calling and different regulations overseeing the health callings; exchange the
ability to change the regulation of social specialists; amendment of the 1984 Disease
Control Act; Accommodate the installment of an endowment to ladies regarding
pregnancy; to change the elements of the Agency for Health Protection (Curtis, 2013).
The laws and regulations followed by NHS has claimed to be patient-centered whilsts
some of its regulations do not allow the patients to go for the treatment which they think
is satisfying.
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Monitoring Procedure
There are different parts of monitoring procedure and some of them are mentioned
below:

Planning
In the planning phase, identification of the objectives and the best possible way
to achieve them is done. Objectives can be long term or short term but it is vital for a
medical professional that this objective is written in an understandable way. In other
words planning phase contains goals and developing plan of care in order to
accomplish those goals (Boyle, 2016).

Implementing
In the implementation phase, a demonstration of the chosen approach is done.
This demonstration is important as it will provide necessary guidance to each medical
professional in order to lead the recovery procedure of the patient. In simple words,
implementing phase carry out plan of care.

Evaluation
In this phase, analysis of the chosen approach is done by that medical team that
is responsible for the medical treatment of the patient. In simple terms evaluation phase
contains calculating extent of outcomes (patient progress).

Conclusion
It is concluded in the above study that there are several advantages of care
planning and one of them is that care planning provides vital directions and procedures
for “individualised care of the client”. Another thing is concluded is that a successful plan
consists of the patient's "unique list of diagnoses" and must be organised by the
patient's specific requirements. Developing policy in medical care is essential in setting
up the strategy that is used to lead different medical professionals in accomplishing
desired objectives.
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