Working in Partnership in Health and Social Care - Assignment

Working in
Partnership in
Health and Social
Care

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
1.1 Philosophies of partnership working in health and social care.............................................1
1.2 Partnership relationships and its effectiveness working in health and social care................2
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................3
2.1 Models of partnership in health and social care....................................................................3
2.2 Legislation and organisational practices for partnership working in health and social care.4
2.3 Different practices and policies affect collaborative working..............................................5
TASK 3 ...........................................................................................................................................6
3.1 Outcomes of working in partnership for service users, professional and enterprises...........6
3.2 Barriers of working in partnership in health and social care................................................7
3.3 Strategies to improve outcomes for partnership....................................................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
A40812REFERENCES..................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Partnership is a process in which two or more organisations merge to deliver better or
enhanced services to their large number of customers. Health and social care is a sector
providing various health related services. Working in partnership in health and social care is a
process in which different enterprises incorporate or merge to deliver better health services to the
end users (Glasby and Dickinson, 2014). Different philosophies are used by entities involved in
this concept to enhance the effectiveness of business operations. Under this report, various
models which can be used by organisations engaged in health and social are mentioned. Along
with this, different legislations and practices adopted by business entities are also discussed.
Effect of these legislations on partnership processes and differences of working in partnership
and the way this can affect the business activities as being a barrier are discussed in this report.
Various methods which can be used by firms to develop or make the relations better are also
mentioned here.
TASK 1
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TASK 2
2.1 Models of partnership in health and social care
Various models of partnership are there that can be identified in health and social care.
Every model has its own style of doing work. Understanding of all models can be gained by the
following ways: Formal partnership: Under this, both entities get entered into partnership business by
signing an agreement. It contains relevant information about partners including their
name, roles and responsibilities along with the authorities. This type of partnership is
announced at public (Mockford and et.al., 2011). This is one of the most popular and
exist form of partnership. Employee share of profit is already decided under this
partnership. Centralised approach of control is used in this which helps manager in taking
decisions at fast speed without any unnecessary delays. Informal partnership: This type of business is opposite to formal partnership. Under this,
parties do not sign a written agreement and partnership is not announced at public. This
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type of partnership is not registered under any law. Partner's profit is also not pre-decided
in this. Joint funding: This is another model of partnership where organisations get financial
help or funds from the same source. This helps the firms in achieving consistency and
smoothness in running all business operations. Agency working: In this model of partnership, agencies work to provide basic facilities to
all partnershizfirms (Petch, Cook and Miller, 2013). Agencies provide consultancy
facilities and help firms in taking major decisions about business.
 Networking: It is also known as collaborative partnership. Entities share resources, funds,
knowledge and people to achieve mutual aim and goals. Achieving common set of goals
by sharing all resources is the main aim of this type of partnership. Co-ordination and
cooperation is built among all activities of different departments.
Every model has its own strengths and weaknesses. By analysing all this, entrepreneurs
can decide which model they want to choose to run all its commercial activities.
Any model can use agencies included in the given case study. But formal partnership can
help them in achieving better results which increase child’s safety.
2.2 Legislation and organisational practices for partnership working in health and social care
To control and maintain the quality of business operations in health and social care,
various acts have been formed. From all those acts, health and social care act 2012 is defined or
identified is one of the main acts which help in forming and giving shape to all actions. This act
formed various agencies and local bodies which take the responsibility of working of partnership
bodies. These agencies help partnership firms in maintaining the quality of services and
promoting partnership in health and social care industry (Cameron and et.al., 2014). These
groups or agencies audit all partnership firms in terms of their quality and service effectiveness.
Other than this, care standards act 2000 is another act that established many standards to
maintain the quality of services of health and social care. In early stages commission for social
care matainain the quality of partnership firms.
Care standards act combined all enterprises into partnership and formed a care quality
commission which undertakes or evaluates the quality of services in health and social care.
Every partnership entity involved in health and social care has to follow the standards or pass the
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