Codes of Practice

Learn about codes of pratice in health and care. This course is ideal for intermediate learners.

Introduction

Codes of practice, or codes of conduct, set the standard of behaviour that is expected of health and social care workers. They also guide professionals on their roles, rights and responsibilities. 

Furthermore, they outline the behaviours and attitudes that are expected from the people who use the services and helps them to understand what support to expect too.

Most health and social care staff will have codes of conduct to follow with standards that are specific to that area of social care or healthcare. However, they do tend to overlap as all health and social care professional are required the delivery of quality care to people.

You will learn 

1. Codes of conduct and the guidelines they provide to support those in the health and social care secto
   
2. Codes of conduct for healthcare and social care workers
   
3. How the code supports workers and others
   
4. 7 principles of the code