Hodges' Model: Welcome to the QUAD: Health, Social Care Legislation & Hodges model

Hodges' model is a conceptual framework to support reflection and critical thinking. Situated, the model can help integrate all disciplines (academic and professional). Amid news items, are posts that illustrate the scope and application of the model. A bibliography and A4 template are provided in the sidebar. Welcome to the QUAD ...

Sunday, November 16, 2008

Health, Social Care Legislation & Hodges model

The table below indicates some of the key legislation in HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE presented using the four care domains of Hodges' model:

Mental Health Acts 1959, 1983, 2007

Mental Capacity Act 2005

Data Protection Act 1998 - 2018
Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill
Health Act 2006 (pharmacies)
Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984
Human Tissue Act 2004
Health Act 2006 (smoking indoors)
Carers Act 2004
Care Standards Act 2000
Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (section 21)
Children Act 1989
Health and Social Care Act 2001, 2008
Section 11 of the Health and Social Care Act 2001.
MHA 2007 (advocacy)
NHS Redress Act 2006 (clinical negligence claims)
Human Rights Act 1998
(The links that were originally posted above have now been removed.)
The focus above is UK, but can be readily updated - revised to reflect other countries.

Rationale for assignment to specific care (knowledge) domains:

This is were much of what is placed above is subjective and Hodges' model can show its situated, person-centred, multi-contextual potential. For example, public and patient involvement in the NHS needs to be driven and sanctioned politically, which is what Section 11 of the Health and Social Care Act 2001 set out to achieve. In operation and procedure the mental health act is very much concerned with individuals, who are accorded specific roles and definitions. The data protection act is primarily concerned with personal data.

Scientifically, or more specifically - biologically and morphologically speaking - human fertilisation and conception is a physical event, initiating a (profound) developmental process. The profundity is expressed elsewhere: what it means for individuals, couples and their families, cultures. The individual (intrapersonal domain) comes to the fore when politicians are given a free vote on such emotive and ethically sensitive issues. The sciences domain is not a complete emotional void, science provides images and vistas of wonder.

This blog post is not comprehensive. There is of course much more legislation to be taken into account; discrimination, equality and diversity, health and safety...

Additional links:

Mental Health History Timeline
Public Health Timeline 1832-1866
The Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007
Our health, our care, our say: a new direction for community services.