Accountability Flashcards
Define Accountabilty?
Answerable for your professional actions or omissions to a higher authority with who you have a legal relationship
What are the four main areas to accountability?
Criminal law (society through public law),
civil law (patient through tort law),
employment law (contract of employment),
professional registration (HCPC).
What is an example of accountability in criminial law?
Being in prison and arrested.
What is an example of accountabilty in civil law?
Being sued
What is an example of accountabilty in employment law?
Breaching the contract and being sacked
What is an example of accountabilty in professional registration?
Being struck off by the HCPC
What are the four main purposes of a professional body such as HCPC
Protective function - protecting the public and the registered professionals
Dterrent function - dters registration from breaching standards and duty of care (rules and standards in place)
Regulatory function - ensuring registrants maintain competance, CPD etc. 2year audit
Educative function - helps and educates registrants
What is the HCPC and its purpose?
The health and care professional council. Pupose os to protect the public, assess and maintain competancy standards of registrants. Ensuring they practice safely, legally and effectively.
Define duty of candour
Being open and honest when something goes wrong. Inform the patient and managment. Apolagise and explain. Offer support and advice.
What are the four things to consider in clincal decision making?
Achievable?
Explainable?
Justifiable?
Defensible?
Define disabilty
A phyisical or mental imparement, the imparement has substantial or long term effect of the persons ability to carry out normal acitivties.
Name models of disabilty
Medical model - disabled as a consequence of health conduition, disease or trauma
Functional model - caused by physical or medical or cognitive deficits. limits to perform functional activities
Social model - limited not by imparement but by the environment such as barriers
Who are considered vulnerable groups
Disabled, Mental Health, Learning disabilty, elderly, children, people who lack capacity
Who are we accountable to with the duty of confidence ? - 3 spheres
Duty under contact of employer
Duty under the law
Duty under HCPC code of conduct
What is the calidcott purpose and what is it?
Senior health professionals in each section, there to oversee and protect confidentiality of patients.
Oversee how information is shared
