Environmental Factors
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- Created on: 24-02-23 15:54
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- Environmental Factors - Accessing Services
- NICE
- National Institute for health and social care excellence
- Aim to improve services for people who do not usually use health and social care services
- They have the responsibility to ensure that health and social care services meet the needs of the people nationally
- Equality Act 2010
- Services should be inclusive and should be accessible
- Services should impact local people and communities
- The local authority has a responsibility to identify barriers
- Transport
- Financially paying for travel
- Parking
- Arranging lifts
- Public transport times
- Remote areas
- Appointments being cancelled
- Appointments being missed
- Appointments being rebooked
- Impacts on health and wellbeing
- Health deterioration
- Spreading of disease and or illness
- Loss of money
- Reliance of other family members
- Why may some not have the same access to services?
- Recruitment of GPs and nurses may be difficult in deprived areas
- Hospital and GP appointments during working hours may be inconvienient
- Elderly and children are reliant on others to get them to services
- How has/ could this be overcome?
- Extended GP hours
- Introduce more NHS Walk-in Centres, Healthy Living Centres, and the NHS 111 service
- Barriers
- Physical
- Objects that prevent an individual from getting to a service
- Psychological
- The way that an individual feels about a service such as worry or fear
- Financial
- How much it might cost to access a service
- Geographical
- How far away the services are
- Cultural and language
- Their culture ma be against the services being provided
- How individuals communicate with others
- Resources
- How much is in demand and the shortages of resources that may occur
- Physical
- NICE
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