Unit 5 - Meeting Individual Care and Support Needs
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UNIT 5- LEARNING AIM D
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This is a DISTINCTION assignment marked by the Pearson BTEC exam board. It is learning aim D- Investigate the roles of professionals and how they work together to provide the care and support necessary to meet individual needs.
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UNIT 5- MEETING INDIVIDUAL CARE AND SUPPORT NEEDS
LEARNING AIM D- Investigate the roles of professionals and how they work
together to provide the care and support necessary to meet individual needs
INTRODUCTION
In this report, I will be explaining what the terms multidisciplinary and multiagency mean
and why different individuals need them in a health and care setting. I will explain the roles
and responsibilities of a multidisciplinary team using individuals in my case study James and
,Robert. I will be assessing the benefits and issues of working with a multidisciplinary and
multiagency team. Lastly, I will evaluate how multidisciplinary and multiagency meet the
specific needs of Jim and Robert.
P6- explain why meeting the needs of the individual require the involvement of different
agencies
Multiagency works with different services, agencies and teams of professionals and other
practitioners working together to provide services and the needs of individuals. Examples of
multiagency teams are the council, community groups, social workers. It is essential as it
provides an effective holistic approach to patients and meets all they need. A GP and social
worker might work together because they will both be responsible for different aspects of
an individual case. Social workers will provide help to the family patients by advising them
or supporting them. At the same time, a GP will be responsible for diagnosing patients and
referring them to a professional. This will benefit the individual because the patient is
receiving help from different professionals and advising them. Furthermore, a social worker
can work with Jim’s GP as a social worker can support Jim’s family to solve their problem
and advise on perhaps what they can do to help them. A social worker is also responsible for
seeing if Jim’s human rights and wellbeing are being met.
Multidisciplinary is a group of healthcare professionals formed based on the individual’s
specific needs, professionals with different roles will work together with a service user to
meet their specific needs. Examples of multidisciplinary teams are doctors/GP, healthcare
assistants, nurses, and pharmacists. An example of this is a doctor and nurse will work
together to treat a patient as a doctor will talk to the nurse on what medication the patient
needs to take and what time, and it will be the nurse's job to administer the medications.
Other agencies or organisations that can help Jim and Robert are Clinical commission
groups. Clinical commission groups provide healthcare to local areas for patients to receive
the best service. NHS England formed it in April 2013, and they work with GPs. Clinical
commissioning groups commission mental health services, emergency care and community
care. Their role is to assess the area's health needs and make sure Robert and Jim's needs
are met. The NHS England supervises clinical commission groups, and their role is to
commission, plan, design, and funding health services such as ambulances and learning
disabilities services.
Local authorities are responsible for commissioning healthcare organisations by supporting
plans and budgets of their local population. Their objective is to improve the health and
wellbeing of individuals that need care and support by receiving better outcomes. They have
been commissioning public health services such as sexual health services, health visitors,
school nursing. Social care services use a process that involves assessing and understanding
the population’s health needs. It requires planning services to meet specific needs that a
patient needs based on limited budgets and then monitoring the services procured. The
organisations involved are Health services, social services, education, and housing. There are
four categories: understanding and working with your communities, leadership and
organisational commitment, responsive services, customer care and a diverse and engaged
workforce.
, The common assessment framework provides a multiagency team to plan a treatment to
meet patient needs and support the family in every step. It can effectively be used to
support the family and child before minor problems become a big problem, and finding a
solution will be more challenging. It allows multiagency teams to communicate and share
patient information such as medical records, enabling them to discuss future treatments.
They identify children who have additional needs, assess needs and strengths and support
them. The assessment framework covers three areas: how the child or young person is
developing, parent or carers, and assessing the family and the environment of where the
child lives. When assessing the child's development, it will look at physical development,
speech, language and communication, emotional and social development, self-care skills,
and independence. Parenting capacity ensures safety and protection, stability and being
emotionally stable. Adult and environmental include looking at the house, financial stability,
physical health, mental health, family situation, and relationship.
P7 Explain the role and responsibilities of different members of the multidisciplinary team
in meeting the needs of specific individuals
Jim has been diagnosed with heart failure, stage 3 renal failure, and high blood pressure.
Therefore, the multidisciplinary team for Jim are GP, Pharmacist, home care agency,
consultant for renal medicine and cardiology. Clinical commission groups involve the NHS,
so GP, Pharmacist, consultant for renal medicine and cardiology and home care agency is
part of the local authority.
Robert suffered from a bleed in the brain caused by intracranial haemorrhage and before his
stroke he has had a history of epilepsy. The multidisciplinary team for Robert consists of GP,
clinical neurophysiology, consultant stroke medicine, pharmacist, speech & language
therapist, physiotherapist, and care worker. Clinical commission groups involve the NHS so
GP, Pharmacist, neurophysiology, consultant stroke medicine and speech & language
therapist, physiotherapist and care worker are part of the local authority.
GP role is to treat all common medical conditions. If the condition is urgent, they will then
refer the patient to the hospital or other medical services or specialist treatment. GP will be
responsible for examining Jim by looking at his symptoms by asking questions, diagnosing
illness, and prescribing a treatment or medication. The GP will monitor his heart and renal
failure and later refer any complications to Jim's consultant, renal medicine and cardiologist.
Robert's GP will be referring Robert to a neurophysiology and to a consultant stroke
medicine.
A pharmacist is a professionally qualified person who will prepare Jim's medication that he
will eventually collect after receiving a prescription from the GP. They are responsible for
ensuring that the medicine prescribed for Jim is suitable according to the law, advising Jim
about medicines and giving out instructions on how to take the medication, such as what
time Jim will have to take the medication and what effect it will have on him. In Jim's case,
the pharmacist will have to provide his medication, including furosemide that is used to
treat high blood pressure and heart failure, nifedipine to treat hypertension and will be
prescribed iron tablets. Robert's pharmacist will be responsible to give phenytoin to treat
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