Introduction
This PPT is based on Bliss, which one of top the charity organisation headquartered in London. The company provides huge variety of services to premature/ sick babies as well as their family member to manage life event. It describes about effectiveness of services to premature babies. Further it discusses about different kind of services which are offered to families, carer and friends in order to support individuals in experiencing their life with prematurity.
TASK 1
1 Evaluate the Effectiveness of the Service in Providing Support to Individuals Affected by the Life Event
Background of the Organisation
Bliss, a leading UK charity organisation was found in 1979 when a letter was sent to The Daily Telegraph in response to a story on neonatal intensive care units. The article revealed that no hospital in UK had all necessary equipments for the care of sick and premature babies. It was then that Allan Chilvers suggested to setup a society for raising funds to buy life-saving equipments for premature babies, like incubators. This led to the formation of BLISS (Baby Life Support System). In the next five years, Bliss raised a large sum of money to donate equipments to 82 hospitals. The organisation ran a campaign in year 2000 to reflect that neonatal units in UK were majorly relying on charity for equipment. This report made to the front page of The Daily Telegraph and a very large sum of money for neonatal intensive care was then announced. Since then, the organisation decided to spend less on life saving equipments and started funding medical training and research. Bliss renders support services for families by a helpline, information available on their website, parent forum and through volunteers providing face-to-face support. Bliss makes sure to give every premature or sick baby in UK the best chance of survival and quality life.
Strengths and Weakness of Services
Care is considered as an important element for every premature baby as they are not developed properly in their mothers womb. It can be said that if proper care is provided to these premature babies then they survive without facing any kind of difficulty in future. Bliss is one among UK's top charity organisation which works with health care professionals in order to increase support families with premature sick babies. The organisation has already covered many areas with its satisfactory and valuable services which have saved life of many babies. But with some successful work organisation also owns some weakness that is affecting goodwill of the company. And its strengths and weakness are described as below:
Strengths: Bliss is helpful for families which owns premature babies as partnered medical staff of the company provide training to family members. It also guides and supports family that having a premature baby is normal and the situation can be managed properly. This has developed trust of people over the company as well as its services which helpful in developing name of Bliss in UK. In addition to this, the company also provides training to the medical staff belongs different hospitals which helps them to manage their work responsibilities that is caring premature babies effectively. As a result it has saved life of approximately 95000 babies every year.
Weakness: Major weakness of the services offered by Bless is that it only secures the life of the premature baby in neonatal age. As there are many chances that these babies might face other disabilities in future when they will grow up. It can be said that this organisation should also avail its offering for future when baby will grow and suffers from others diseases too.
Effectiveness of Services on Individuals
Bliss provides a huge variety of services to premature babies which not only saves their life but also helps them to perform their daily routine work effectively in future. It has been seen that children who do not get appropriate care in the starting stage they faces many problems in future with the growing age. These premature babies also needs special educational classes in school in order to gain basic knowledge for their survival.
Mainly, services of Bliss organisation are baby orientated and believes in providing high quality care to neonatal as they are not developed properly and requires some additional medical care so that their life can remain secure without any medical problems. It has been identified that the premature babies are weak as compared to other normal babies. These premature babies are more likely to own short term as well as the long sickness which becomes major problem of their whole life. Short duration problem of neonatal includes such as low weight, breathing problem, not able to intake provided food, less active as compared to normal one etc. These issues can easily reduced at Bliss charter centres which provides all the required help at centre only where parents can easily discussion their problem with volunteers who guides the way through which premature babies can be saved. As a result, it affects positively on health condition of baby and helps them to recover properly.
It can be said that Bliss charter centre is not only helpful for baby but it also provides emotional support to the mother and also teaches them basic caring tips like breastfeeding, exercises of baby according to its growing age, additional diet which can be given to baby in future to recover all of its problems which are generated due to prematurity. This services of Bliss organisation impacts positively on recovery of premature babies and also helps them to live normal life in future. It also helps baby minimise affect of their less immune system and gives them strength to manage with health which might impact more on them because of the pr