What Is The Importance Of Communication In Health And Social Care

Communication is a way for people to interact with one another and get a message across to people using different types of communication. An example being sending and receiving a message between others, this can be done by speech, behaviour, visual, signals and writing. In a care setting, communication is very important; messages have to be clear for the receiver to understand and needs have to be met. Some people may struggle with some ways of communicating and so it is important when working with the ones finding it difficult that they are understood and communicated with properly and as expected. Some of the types of communications include:

One to one – This is the most common forms of communication. One to one conversations consists of various topics. These conversations, unlike other types of communications are usually not rehearsed beforehand, with the exception of health and social care worker. For example, Police officer, doctor, care worker and

If there were no interpersonal interaction and great communications serious outcomes could happen. For example child abuse. If someone was being abused by their family or peers and even thought hey visit the doctors they don’t notice and due to no communication they could end up critical or dead. I think if many of the care workers had come together they may have noticed that something was wrong with them. If this was to happen the care service will get blamed. Multi-agency and communication with colleagues is important in my opinion, in the care industry. This gives them the chance to discuss their ideas and develop their knowledge or new inventions. This could link to Tuckman’s theory as the first stage is ‘forming’ which involves members of a group coming together to discuss their