Workers in health and decisionsdisabilitydiscriminatingequallyfreedomgenderimportantpeoplepoliciesqualityredressreligioussocialunderstandvaluework care settings must make sure they follow both these principles and the legislation in every aspect of their decisionsdisabilitydiscriminatingequallyfreedomgenderimportantpeoplepoliciesqualityredressreligioussocialunderstandvaluework

Equality of Care
This is founded on the fundamental belief that people in society should be treated decisionsdisabilitydiscriminatingequallyfreedomgenderimportantpeoplepoliciesqualityredressreligioussocialunderstandvaluework. All health and social care professionals and practitioners abide by all the relevant legislation and also have their own decisionsdisabilitydiscriminatingequallyfreedomgenderimportantpeoplepoliciesqualityredressreligioussocialunderstandvaluework on sexual harassment, race discrimination and other equal opportunities issues.
Most workers in health and social care will come into contact with a wide range of decisionsdisabilitydiscriminatingequallyfreedomgenderimportantpeoplepoliciesqualityredressreligioussocialunderstandvaluework in the course of their work. All of these people have a right to receive care and treatment of an equal decisionsdisabilitydiscriminatingequallyfreedomgenderimportantpeoplepoliciesqualityredressreligioussocialunderstandvaluework.
Health and social care pratitioners can put equality of care into pratice by
Encouraging everyone regardless of race, decisionsdisabilitydiscriminatingequallyfreedomgenderimportantpeoplepoliciesqualityredressreligioussocialunderstandvaluework, religion, age or decisionsdisabilitydiscriminatingequallyfreedomgenderimportantpeoplepoliciesqualityredressreligioussocialunderstandvaluework to make the most of the services on offer
Responding to every individual as a human being of equal decisionsdisabilitydiscriminatingequallyfreedomgenderimportantpeoplepoliciesqualityredressreligioussocialunderstandvaluework
Not negatively decisionsdisabilitydiscriminatingequallyfreedomgenderimportantpeoplepoliciesqualityredressreligioussocialunderstandvaluework against an individual on any grounds


Individual Rights
It is a central principle of modern Western society that the individual and individual rights are decisionsdisabilitydiscriminatingequallyfreedomgenderimportantpeoplepoliciesqualityredressreligioussocialunderstandvaluework. The right to vote, speak freely, worship, to be educated and the right to seek decisionsdisabilitydiscriminatingequallyfreedomgenderimportantpeoplepoliciesqualityredressreligioussocialunderstandvaluework through the law when rights are impinged are all enshrined in the law.
The equality of opportunity legislation sets out the rights which should be shared and enjoyed by everyone in society. health and social care practitioners must recognise and decisionsdisabilitydiscriminatingequallyfreedomgenderimportantpeoplepoliciesqualityredressreligioussocialunderstandvaluework these rights and help service users (patients) to understand them and enforce them

Individual Choice
This is closely tied up with the notion of individual rights. People have the decisionsdisabilitydiscriminatingequallyfreedomgenderimportantpeoplepoliciesqualityredressreligioussocialunderstandvaluework to have their own beliefs and preferences, to make their own decisionsdisabilitydiscriminatingequallyfreedomgenderimportantpeoplepoliciesqualityredressreligioussocialunderstandvaluework, and to take responsibility for themselves. Health and social care pratitioners must support these freedoms by empowering clients to lead their lives the way they want to. This can have applications such as making sure there is facility for decisionsdisabilitydiscriminatingequallyfreedomgenderimportantpeoplepoliciesqualityredressreligioussocialunderstandvaluework worship and practice to occur in a residential care home, or keeping terminal ill patients aware of their choices and options.