Barriers to Health Care
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Labelling and
stereotypes
Waiting times/ lists
Attitudes
Costs
Opening times
Barriers
to care
services
Opening times
Lack of
disabled
access
Location
(geographical)
language
Lack of information
discrimination
Language
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Barriers to access
Definition
Early Years
examples
Factors preventing the use of
care
•Shortage of provision
•Location and transport
•Cultural needs
Social Care
Examples
•Attitude (stigma)
•Cost (means-testing)
•Eligibility
Health Care
examples
•Physical barriers
•Cost
•Language/culture
•Bed blocking
•Prejudice,
labelling,
stereotyping
•Lack of
information
•Geographical3
Care Provision
Care Value Base
Legislation
Care
practise
Procedures
Policies
and
standards
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Care Value base
• The CVB is an important concept, which
has been adopted by the caring
professions.
• The CVB is incorporated in the codes of
conduct and codes of practise of
employers within the Health, Social Care
and Early years professions.
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Care Value Base
Anti-discriminatory
practise
Promoting and
supporting rights
Promoting effective
communication
Maintaining
confidentiality
Acknowledging
personal beliefs
and identity
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Access
• There are many ways in which the public can
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•
access Health Care Services.
Referrals – self referral
- third party referral
- professional referral
Equal access to care services
Why would unequal access prevent you from
receiving the care you need?
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REFERRAL SYSTEMS
Service
User
Service
user
service
User
GP
FRIEND OR
RELATIVE
GP
Gp
Social
worker
Home
Help
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Workshop Tasks
Related to slides 2 and 3
• Identify as many barriers as you can, which may
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•
prevent people from obtaining the care services
which they require.
Identify the social groups that are most likely to
experience cost, physical problems and language
issues as ‘barriers’ to accessing the care they
require
Identify which group of people which are less
likely to use a GP. Identify as many reasons for
this. ( gender issue)
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Workshop Tasks
related to slides 4,5 & 6
• What is the care value base and how is it used in a care
setting?
• What is anti-bias/ discriminatory practise?
• How do you promote effective communication?
• Obtain a code of practise/ ethics from as many different
care professions as you can and review them. (You may
be able to download them from web pages)
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