Features of Effective Partnership Working in Health and Social Care

Running Head: PARTNERSHIP 0
Health and social care management

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Contents
Features of effective partnership working..................................................................................3
Importance of partnership working with:...................................................................................3
Colleagues..............................................................................................................................3
Other professionals.................................................................................................................3
Others.....................................................................................................................................3
How partnership working delivers better outcome....................................................................3
Overcoming barriers to partnership working.............................................................................4

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Features of effective partnership working
Partnership working has been the regular public policy from the last 40 years in health and
social care. Previous as well as current attempts in the partnership working have also risen.
The legislation of 1940 has set up the current welfare state. It is based on the assumption that
it was quite simple to differentiate the sick people and that person who has some health needs
as well as to those who are disabled. These stated assumptions has created the various
organizations with different structures with varied ways of working including those
complexities that partnership working necessitates (Rincón-Gallardo and Fullan, 2016). The
delivery of services in the partnership working not only focused on the social and health care,
but also between the service users themselves. This is demonstrated in a paper that “shifting
the balance of power within the NHS.” It set out the strategy implementation for the plan of
NHS. However, it also seemed to stress the leading role of health rather than on the social
care (Baker, 2010).
Importance of partnership working with:
Colleagues
partnership working has demonstrated the various benefits for the staff members; it provides
more clear understanding regarding responsibilities and roles. It also decreases the level of
stress. Members who are working in partnership with the service user family become more
attentive to the individual need of family member (Webb, 2016).
Other professionals
An effective and efficient partnership among the care home workers as well as other
professionals like health care workers more relies on the recognition that whole part care
about the same objective. It is done for promoting the health of service user. It is possible that
each member will take the different way to achieve the goal but it will be the common
outline. Partnership can also be enhanced by certifying the place of service user in centre
(Jelphs and Dickinson, 2016). It is true that partnership working can be improve when all the
professionals in health, home and social care link together for searching the problems and
take more anticipatory approach for health.