Partnership Working in Health and Social Care

This document discusses the philosophy and evaluation of partnership working in health and social care. It explores models of partnership working and analyzes recent legislation and structural measures for effective partnership working. The document provides study material and solved assignments on the topic.

TABLE OF CONTENT…………………………………………………….2
INTRODUCTION…………………………………………………………..3
TASK 1.1…………………………………………………………………....4-5
TASK 1.2……………………………………………………………………6-10
TASK 2.1……………………………………………………………………11-12
TASK 2.2……………………………………………………………………12-14
TASK 2.3……………………………………………………………………14-15
TASK 3.1…………………………………………………………………….15-16
TASK 3.2……………………………………………………………………..16-17
TASK 3.3……………………………………………………………………..17
CONCLUSION……………………………………………………………….18
REFERENCES………………………………………………………………..18-19
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INTRODUCTION
To be working together as partners in Health and social care industry means to work in hand
with other professionals to provide highest standard of care for the people.
It is also can be referred to interprofessional working in Health and social care to support
older people with complex and multiple needs.
Partnership in working is sharing and each partner is to have one thing to contribute, shared
power between them, jointly make decision between them and backed the decisions
lawfully and decently (Jo Tunnard,1991).
As indicated by Balloch and Taylor (2011), experts as well as association are right now
employing in organization for building the knowledge and aptitudes, information to join
their capacities to effectively secure administration clients. The organization working
principally centres around settling complex handicap and learning challenges as material to
Susan Lee's powerless concerns. The social consideration houses, representatives, nearby
NHS specialists, work advisor, human services experts and dialect advisor accomplices in the
wellbeing and social consideration for Susan Lee to be free and autonomous in playing out
her essential tacks.
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TASK
1.1-PHILOSOPHY OF WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL
CARE
Philosophy is a perception that influence the belief, values and practices of individuals.
EMPOWERMENT-This is when helping service user to live independently, to support
themselves i.e. a guide on self-care shows a range of advanced work councils are involved in
to further insert the self-care agenda.
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Empowerment should involve individual in making decision of their own through individual
centred or tailored care.
It must involve making choices round where and how facilities will be render to service
users including the assessment and operation.
Service users must be empowered to achieve their target goals and objectives.
Service users must be empowered to maintain their health through
Social prescribing which can be described as community referral which empower primary
care service for the service users socially and emotionally.
Patient instigation which is the way of calculating meeting in refining your own health, to
measure patient instigation a healthy patient – testified measure is used as PAM.
POWER SHARING-This is referred to as a procedure of running an administration in which
only important aspect of society are given a lasting offer of force. This also aids in sharing
the information which is demanded so as to make appropriate and required decisions. For
instances, a social are home may link with a charity organisation that works in delivering
clothes, solid, primary needs to use in elderly home.
INDEPENDENCE-Organisation works as partners to provide health and social care services
for the service users, such organisation may also inter dependent on each other
organisation for economic, financial, or social assistance. This suggest the ability to make
decision that will possibly influence the service users lives in the absent of others control or
relatives. The framework does not implement individuals but inspire them to help those
that need their helps. Residents are furnished with independence and in what way they can
be handled and may also automatically maintain their components. (Davies,2000)
RESPECT-This is technique for treating somebody, you appreciate her and the way you deal
with her in a certain way. Respect have to be related when discussing with Mrs B. The
protection team need to have made the insurance plan ready and advising Mrs B about
numerous types of safekeeping that they are going to set up for her, by the way of
enlightening her, respect have been linked and her notion and feeling would have been
considered.
PRODUCING INFORMED CHOICE
It has been considered as an essential rule for moving a medicative work centre. Focussing
on the most defined decisions and choices are usually imperative for the health care seeker
as well as the overseer. Such standard suggests that if any decision is made in consideration
of how a patient will basically manage and it will rely on the person agreement with the
health care seeker. Such individuals are considered as best patients to select from if any
kind of work or task is there for the male or female patients. In regard to this, he or she will
express it to the overseer on how and what else could be done to make and extract the best
for the male as well as female health care seeker.
TASK 1.2- EVALUATE PARTNERSHIP RELATIONSHIPS WITHIN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE
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There are various partnership relationships in health and social service.
The main purpose of working together as a partnership includes:
 Trusting each other
 Respecting each other
 Working as a team
 Shared working
And it avoids every kinds of obstruction that may arise (Walsh, 2010)
Relationship working is when one or more than one industries are operating collectively in a
cohesive way and inaugurate the duty together and work as one agency.
The Clinical Commissioning Group was established in 2012 to permit NHS professional and
Health-talk online to improve on the service render to the community.
Care Quality Commission (CQC) was introduced in 2008 to control and regulate the care
services of health. The CQC has the power to shut down any healthcare industry that
doesn’t work up to standard. They monitor, inspect and regulate health care services.
Partnership Relationship with users of services.
It is necessary to identify the people we support in social as well as health care providing
services. These people are:
 Children
 Elderly
 Young people in care
 Clients with disabilities
 Clients with mental health issues
 Patients
 Refugees
 Asylum Seekers
Partnership Relationships with Elderly and disabled people
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The relationship among these people in social as well as health care setting have seen to
not been that much powerful and strong because both the old age people and the
individual suffering from disability don’t have access to the service render to them by
the company provider.
These people are discriminated because of their disability, age in certain services (Glasby
and Tuttlechild 2004)
The people with mental, physical or partial disabilities is abused, neglected or
discriminated by social as well as health care staff members.
But business operation among the agency (professional bodies) has changed how these
people are treated in our society today.
Asylum Seekers are discriminated in health care setting because they are homeless, they
are very poor and have no health services available for them due to worldwide violence.
The asylum seekers or refugees are discriminated in health care services due to their
status (Herne 2008)
According to the examination and survey investigation passaged by Sussex Scowfield and
Herne (2008) stated that the refugees are discriminated and not allowed to be admitted
into public hospitals. But now there is an improvement in partnership relationship as it
provided by H&SC Services and other professional bodies.
Furthermore, most H&SC provider have collaborated with private companies,
government agencies as well as non-government companies and other beneficent and
charity funded organisation in the way of improving the quality and quantity of services
which are being offered.
Partner Relationships with Professional groups:
These are the main professional groups that are employed in social as well as health
care services:
 Social Workers
 Health Workers
 Educationalists
 Therapists Support Workers
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These organisations are engaged in health and social care services
1.Statutory
2.Voluntary
3.Private
4.Independent
5.Charitable
6.Community forums.
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Most organisations in Health and Social care industry
works in partnerships, communicate with each other, collaborate in a cohesive way,
integrate as one agency.
They also engrossed on possible benefits that people may secure from the arrangement,
thus disregarding the damaging influence that such planning may have on the entire health
and social care setting.
Providers of Health and social care services should pay attention on effective delivery of
high-quality services rather than organisational profits gained from working in partnerships.
A general tactic to wellbeing is required for tackling the UK’s wildfire of long-lasting illness.
No exact physical health without mental health.
Through partnership working, partial resources are joint to reach a larger number of people
with improved services.
It is also vital to recognise key stakeholder involved in creating and distributing health and
social care services such as service users, service providers, and policy makers. To achieve
this, it is significant that all these key stakeholders know each other’s role and accountability
to deliver effective and efficient service.
All the stakeholders must have a vigorous relationship and active communication so that
gaps in the service delivery can be acknowledged to deliver a satisfactory service.
TASK 2.1-ANALYSE MODELS OF PARTNERSHIP WORKING ACROSS THE HEALTH
AND SOCIAL CARE SECTOR.
In social as well as health care environmental attention setting, working in partnership
observed by focusing on the relationship with work patterns, laws regulations which must
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be obeyed in many ways. In Health and social care sectors, we have four key theories,
stating how working in partnership in health and social care were established.
1.Organisational legal structure
2.Teamwork for staffs working in partnership.
3.Creating virtual firms to allow partners to discover features lacking in legal amenities.
4.To find means for delivering joint act to all affairs.
LEGAL FIRMS-Is the sort of association working requiring understanding and contract about
assets and back allotment or backings. NHS as well as free medical services can be rendered
to the ill and as a case offer well being administrations to patients at the nearby and
national boards stages, improving them accomplice to get results, fulfil care clients require
with the NHS commands and assets. Organization working legalities require faithful trust
from the two gatherings including proficient natural object, social consideration homes, care
quality commission, wellbeing office and pharmaceutic enterprise that on the whole
occupation in to achieve the wellbeing and social consideration objectives. Being a major
wellbeing specialist co-op, NHS is upheld by unpaid willing workers and different partners
that direct enterprise steadiness and solidarity about kinship the executives with
accomplices. (NHS, 2017).
INTENTIONAL, ASSEMBLAGE AND SOCIAL GROUP
The association working among voluntary, community and social firms (VCSE) segment that
is fundamental to working in organization process for administrative wellbeing and social
consideration firms to required job to enhance wellbeing, welfare and care results. Current
law and care plan archives, for example, Care Act 2013, Health and Social Care Act 2012
with Five Year Forward View 2014 permitted association working and allowed VCSE jobs in
propelling results. (NHS, 2017)
Virtual firms give a premise to joins association between organizations into partnership.
Arrangement of virtual firm permits organizations running in association to relegate
representatives and join important resources/assets for better cooperation. To acknowledge
required bearing, system and control of activity among accomplices require a controlling
gathering creation to manage occasions. As such no separation in relation to the group and
none impact from gatherings in association. NHS as a case accomplices well being expert so
as to give quality human services to residents.
There are four models of partnership working (The Audits 1998).
1.CO0RDINATED MODEL-The deliberately arranged working in association framework went
for giving intercessions by means of different groups/bunches exertion together working
including, specialists, social laborers, medical caretakers, network laborers and work
advisors.
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2.HYBRID MODEL-This model explain the blend of specialists in organization attempting to
achieve objectives. Wellbeing specialist and social labourer may hold hands to oversea
helpless grown -up or elderly physical incapacity cases.
3.UNIFIED MODEL-This part of partnership in working model explain experts need to fill in as
accomplice by joining assets and capacities with respect to objective acknowledgement.
4.COALITION MODEL-This is when the board, preparing and staffing structures of the
administrations work in a combined organization. There is an affiliation and coalition of the
different components however they work discretely (Tony Bertram, n.d.).
TASK 2.2 -REVALUATE RECENT LEGISLATION AND STRUCTURAL MEASURES AND POLICIES
FOR PARTNERSHIP WORKING IN SOCIAL AND HEALTH CARE
Recent and relevant legislation for operating in the social and health care
The Health Act 1999
The Health and Social Care Act 2012
The Mental Health Act
The Data Protection Act 1998(GDPR 2018)
Equality Act, Disability, Diversity and Inclusion.
Legislation is law framed and passed on by government by which sacred acts are authorized
by law making body made with the end goal of law making. Every companies have policies
mean proclamation exhibiting a concurred duty, sets by a firm feeling in consonance with a
situation. (Zakariasen and et. al., 2008) The arrangement of insurance and norms which
gives explicit manages to organisation, a procedure is a sequential plan to implement the
approaches of a business, characterizing a lawful succession of exercises embraced to
accomplish an assignment dependably.
Legislation is the process of making laws and also implies pattern best-known and enlisted
by a country which specialists and organisation inside wellbeing and social consideration
division needs to precedes for the so called daily routine and everyday tasks. Hierarchical
practices and approaches alludes to standard working frameworks expected of wellbeing
experts to secure consideration clients. NHS in the UK delivering on the loose restorative
consideration administrations to the citizens with compelling employed in organization
among non-legislative organisation, volunteers and specialists.
The case of Susan lee with physical as well as learning inability was overseen by blend of
wellbeing or social laborers, dialect advisors, neighbourhood NHS staff to make proper
assistance plan for the health acre social care service seeker without inclination for helpless
grown-ups.
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Health and Social Care Act 2012 is an act of the Parliament of United Kingdom which is
responsible for the removal of the citizen’s health from the state of Health, which the post
has approved since the beginning of the NHS in 1948.
Health and Social Care Act 2012 allow nearby board expert to execute distinctive plans and
methods equipped for enhancing wellbeing and social consideration industry quality.
Susan Lee case, at the age of 18 she wants to be survive solitary, subsequently NHS,
specialist and social worker reached an agreement to support her, by providing a personal
assistant to support her and to provide a language therapist for her. to be shielded from
outside assaults, being a powerless grown-up, ensuring she comprehend fundamental
factors and shape care plan required
DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION ACT 2005 is a protected enactment that observes separation
or inclination attention in against disable or undefendable individuals without respect in
occupation or in our society whereas overseeing items and diverse administrations.
Nowadays this law is implemented for the protection of the vulnerable people in our
society.
COMMUNITY CARE ACT 1990 -is any adult aged 18 and above, who is qualified for or need
assistance or services from the local authority has the right to a full assessment of their
needs and services are provided to suit them.
EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY-This act is to treat an individual or groups of individuals equally,
not treated differently or less favourably, on the basis of their precise endangered
characteristic, disability, religion or belief, sexual orientation and age.
For Susan Lee’s case, there was a partnership working between the agencies, like provision
of language therapist and NHS to provide care services for her.
CHILDREN ACT 1989
The prior objective of this particular demonstration is to provide the wee being and security
along with the safety of all the needs that individuals has in order to secure their future that
could be improved and convert into a decent subject of the nation. The experts that are
related for the betterment regarding the perspective of children's bright future along with
respective needs, desire & contain effective system for fulfilling the same to complete the
necessities as well as demands. In addition to this, it has been analysed that several factors
are responsible for highlighting demonstration of young people. However, some of these
are mentioned here.
Remain well-being
Staying secure
Attain pecuniary successfulness
Establish the commitments with positivity
& acknowledge as well as execute
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TASK 2.3- EXPLAIN HOW DIFFERNCES IN WORKING PRACTICES AND POLICIES AFFECT
COLLABORATION WORKING.
Set of accepted rules, business procedures and practices and specialists' capacity on
different organizations that are banding together to protect the wellbeing of Susan Lee.
To provide assistance for her day to day activities, being helpless grown-up. Medical services
staffs, for example, dialect specialist, social laborers and NHS empower her free and turn
out to be smarter to dealing with the cleaning, learning and considering.
However, unique working approaches, making activities of different groups for situation of
helpless grown-ups and impaired, there ought to be arrangement. Therapeutic specialists
help spare lives, social laborers give great lodging and open to living to individuals without
tendency making neighbourhood NHS experts make guarantee comity occupants.
As for me, limit of numerous experts and organizations need to work in association so as to
help the industry better and deliver care plan for patients like Susan Lee through a shared
organization to secure/spare life. These approaches and practices help specialists to settling
crisis issues. Notwithstanding, certain association working can prompt between office
contention; be that as it may, Susan 's issue is one of a kind since she was a powerless
grown-up whose wellbeing and social statuses can be made strides.
Additionally, if organizations have no gifted, staffs need to oversee fluctuating errands, the
morals and standards might be against. In United Kingdom, wellbeing and social workforces
guarantee better working in association in giving quality wellbeing administrations to
powerless grown-ups and incapacitated individuals, in Susan case.
National Health Service: this organisation is responsible for providing the administrating
services to make people disease free. It has various treatment procedures and medications
through which population of the country maintain their health condition in proper manner.
However, it has special health programs for different group of individuals suffering from
severe health problems in order to achieve their better health status (NHS, 2014).
EDUCATION – Primary, secondary, college and university are the part of education industry.
school promotion collections are the primary association of this industry. The fundamental
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focus is on the privilege to think about, right of learning. Their quality must be advanced in
each way.
TASK 3.1-EVALUATE POSSIBLE OUTCOMES OF PARTNERSHIP EMPLOYED FOR USERS OF
SERVICES, PROFESSIONALS & ORGANISATION
Between experts the working of Association, Healthcare organizations and care program or
aid gave to the customers add up to building up common comprehension, relations, better
correspondence and refreshed figures. It additionally enables accomplices to make
compelling procedure of dealing with patient's evil wellbeing or defencelessness if there
should arise an occurrence of grown-up and more established service users for wellbeing
and social consideration. By Considering the situation of Susan Lee's with complex
incapacity issues, specialists & social laborers, NHS have the abilities to make viable
consideration arrangement to patients to give them opportunity of relationship throughout
everyday life.
Optimistic Outcome of the partnership working for service users
The idea of the managing is increased in examination of preceding.
The leadership includes the education in phrasing aptitude of workers.
Strengthening
Self-sufficiency
Destructive Outcomes are
The assertion may come out as a mischief or anger and so on.
The chance of the distribution of replacement data or services rises.
Pure data can’t be reached at the user, it may create misunderstanding.
The interruption level of the employee will be improved (Seedhouse,1998).
The struggle may rise as a damage or irritation.
The Achievable outcomes of the partnership working for organisation
The extensive administration arrangement are given by the association for the association.
Chips away at the standard sharing.
The Given of incorporated administrations.
Normal Working practices.
Intelligible methodology
Negative outcomes
The expense might be expanded.
Loss of shared reason.
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Correspondence breakdown
Possible outcome of partnership working for professionals
The organization operate for expert form the expert methodology in which the results can
be incorporates.
The associations are prepared & instruct proficient and recognises the relationship which
can be seen in the form of coordination.(Sussex, Herne and Scourfield, 2008).
Jobs & the obligation of every individual part would be plainly referenced.
Composed and viable correspondence occur.
The deception could be reducing.
Incorporates the viable usage of liability.
Negative outcomes are
The disputation between the professional could be enlarged in Partnership for the
proficient.
There might be odds of the miscommunication that emerges on account of the competition.
The mess of the financing could be increase.
TASK 3.2- ANALYSE THE POTENTIAL BARRIERS TO PARTNERSHIP WORKING IN H&SC
STRUCTURAL BARRIERS- The Distinctive companion in well-welfare and social consideration
administrate vary in their construction and this basic contrast some of the time reason of
inconveniences while setting the organizations in welfare and cultural consideration. The
administrations are divided among in the associations, yet here and there, a specific
organization probably won't be braced to take up the undertaking and give the explicit
influence of the clients. This includes the fact that different administrative associations has
differentiated structure which impact on their way of performing tasks. It become difficult
for staff to work in partnership by considering different policies and practices. However,
people from different areas are performing together they use to follow their regular style of
performing which impact negatively on the respective outcomes of particular task. It is
necessary for employees to make decision to follow easy and specific administrative
structure to work with each other effectively.
FINANCIAL BARRIERS- This is not necessary that the associations who are involved with the
organization have a related instrument for the wealth related liability. For instance, the
monetary assets for an governance association, for example, NHS are excessively not quite
the same as any private organization and this sort of differentiation in the origin and
furthermore in the sum could make a fewer problems in the organization. The funds plays an
important to work in partnership in terms of involving various institutions to completing specific
treatment to make patient well-being. It includes the utilisation and purchasing of clinical resources
which are different in public and private health organisations. However, limited funds become a
problem for care professionals while working in partnership so that they should make effective
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strategy to fulfil their particular clinical tasks in proper manner. For example, it has been analysed
that use of money and equipments in NHS are not quite same as compared to private organisation.
PROFESSIONAL BARRIERS- This includes the performance of people belongs to different field
and efforts together in specific clinical task for well being of an individual. Each association
has its very personal qualities and the process and arrangements are set accordant to these
qualities. At some point when associations which have different qualities and proficient
involvement include in the organization, they need to grasp and regard the attribute
individual and expert involvement of one another else there could be confusion in the
association.
PROCEDURAL BARRIERS-Associations have a particular method to deal with an explicit
interest of the administrations and the greater part of the strategies are tweaked according
to the constitution of these associations. This sort of proceeding distinction could
exacerbate the condition than improving them as the entire approach of working should be
transformed once in a while when an association is set up (Watt, 2000).
TASK 3.3-DEVISE STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE OUTCOMES FOR PARTNERSHIP WORKING IN
H&SC
I have explained the various obstructions and outcome of the organization working in welfare
& social consideration profit. There are manners by which a portion of the destructive results
could be changed over the positive and the general outcome could be made strides. Some of
them are referenced below
With respect to the social and wellbeing consideration administrations, it is the responsibility
of the organization to ensure that the patients including staff is enabled to settle on the speedy
choices if essential and nobody else is there to encourage them.
If the attentiveness is divided among the included assembling in the association it could be
exceptionally advantageous . The Shared attentiveness would enlighten the general people
with the learning of welfare and social consideration strategies (Baxter, Glendinning and
Clarke, 2008).
With alongside of the learning and mindfulness, it is essential that the real responsibility is
given to the general people whether they are the related to medical or the specialists.
Doling out the targets and objectives as indicated by the ability of the general people and in
the event that they are not well-qualified, legitimate set up ought to be orchestrated. As such,
the general people could be prepared to deal with the explicit condition and after that they
could be used in a fitting method to find out the problem identified with welfare and social
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consideration (NHS, 2014). Ability of this sort could be acquired among the associations in
organization.
The Risk Assessment System is essential to be actualized in working in organization which
would limit the problems and associations could face off the troubles purposely (Beauchamp
and Childress, 2001).
CONCLUSION
When working in organization in wellbeing and social consideration are built up, numerous
difficulties emerge and it is important to confront these difficulties and resolve them as
opposed to keeping away from. A harm control framework should be set up when the basic
and procedural changes occur amid the association among the wellbeing associations and it is
likewise important to coordinate the exercises among the staff with the goal that they don't
feel distanced in the new structure.
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