Keystage 5
AS GCE in Health and Social Care (OCR H103) and Advanced GCE in Health and Social Care (OCR H503)
You will study six units over 2 years as follows:
Year 12 - AS
Promoting quality care*
- Attitudes and prejudices
- Rights and responsibilities of people who use services and providers
- Facilitation of access to services
- Values of care
- How organisations promote quality care
Communication in care settings
- Types of communication
- Factors that support and inhibit communication
- Communication skills
- Theories relating to communication
- Interaction with the person(s) who uses services/practitioner(s)
Promoting good health
- Principles of health and well-being
- Preventative measures and job roles
- Planning a health promotion campaign
- Carry out a health promotion campaign
Year 13 - A2
Care practice and provision
- Planning and provision of services
- Effects of national policy and legislation on care practice and provision
- How quality assurance is promoted by services
- Conducting a survey relating to quality assurance
- How services and practitioners meet individual needs
- Ways in which practitioners within services work in partnerships
Anatomy and Physiology*
- Respiratory system
- Cardio-vascular system
- Digestive system
- Reproductive system
- Renal system
- Musculo-skeletal and Neural systems
- Dysfunctions / causes / diagnostic techniques and treatment of systems
Research Methods
- Purposes and methods of research
- Ethical issues and sources of error and bias in research
- Planning, Presentation and Analysis of Findings from your own Research
- Evaluation of your findings to your research project
* externally assessed
Callington Community College
Launceston Road, Callington, Cornwall PL17 7DR
Tel: 01579 383292 Fax: 01579 383562