Philosophy of Working in Partnership | Report

Working in Partnership

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
1.1 Philosophy of working in partnership in health and social care (338) .................................1
1.2 Partnership relationships within health and social care services .........................................2
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................3
2.1 Models of partnership working across the health and social care sector ............................3
2.2 Current legislation and organizational practices and policies for partnership working in
health and social care .................................................................................................................4
2.3 Differences in working practices and policies affect collaborative working .......................5
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................6
3.1 Possible outcomes of partnership working for users of services, professionals and
organizations ..............................................................................................................................6
3.2 Potential barriers to partnership working in health and social care services .......................7
3.3 strategies to improve outcomes for partnership working in health and social care services
.....................................................................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
In partnership two or more people work together and share the ownership by equally
contributing their required resources. In this, the term resources means capital, man power, skill
and property for business purpose. According to the partnership agreement, each business partner
shares the profit and loss. In health and social care sector, the agenda of partnership working
plays a important role for effective care practices and operations. To understand the concept of
working in partnership, Mid Staffordshire National Health Foundation (NHS) Hospital Trust is
considered according to given case scenario. The present report features the philosophy of
working in partnership and also evaluates the partnership relationships within health and social
care services. Further, the present report describes the models of partnership working in health
and social care sector. It also helps to understand the possible outcomes and barriers of
partnership working.
TASK 1
1.1 Philosophy of working in partnership in health and social care (338)
The philosophy of working in partnership describes the ethics, beliefs and values of
working in collaboration with the other health care agencies and organizations. The main aim of
partnership in this sector is to offer effective care services to all patients. According to given case
scenario, Staffordshire hospital faces the daily issues such as patients are not fairly treated,
proper care services are not given and caring roles are not respecting the dignity of patients etc.
These issues describes that cited hospital needs the partnership working to attain the
organizational goals (Glasby, 2012). The few philosophies of working in partnership could be
implemented in Mid Staffordshire hospital which are briefly defined below:
 Philosophy of Empowerment- According to this philosophy, power is share with others
who may lack with the power. It helps to improve the abilities of people to resolve their
personal problems and further with the positive result of personal achievements it
increases their satisfaction level. In the cited hospital, empowerment was not experienced
by the many patients.
 Power sharing philosophy- This philosophy describes the term power sharing in health
and social care as a process of negotiation to achieve the understandings. In this, the
common understandings are related to the responsibilities, roles and handling duties. The
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health care professionals of Staffordshire hospital could follow this philosophy to provide
effective care services to patients (Lowes and Hulatt, 2013).
 Philosophy of independence- It basically emphasizes the personal characteristics which
includes the personal traits, self regulation, control, ability and opportunity. This helps to
make the effective choices about important aspects of life. Under the care of cited
hospital, many service users lost their independence because they were dependent on
faulty care system. In hospital, no respect was offered to patients which in last affects
their well being and health.
 Philosophy of respect- It describes the respect as a way of protection about patient's
autonomy. For this purpose it is required to provide all necessary information about their
medical treatment (Crawford, 2011).
 Philosophy of autonomy- This philosophy describes the term autonomy as freedom. The
care providers have to consider and respect the rights of service users. For this purpose,
freedom of choice must be given to patients.
 Philosophy of making informed choices- In order to make the decisions on well fare, care
service and health in informed way, required information should be easily accessible by
individuals.
1.2 Partnership relationships within health and social care services
The requirement of partnership working is basically derived from few factors in the
health and social care sector. The few factors are high level of both economic constraints, fiscal
constraints, requirements of vulnerable persons and increment in aging population. The
government of UK analyse that health outcomes are of low level, quality of care services are in
poor condition and unnecessary increment costs in the health and social care sector. Further, in
this addition the case of Victoria Climbie in Mid Staffordshire hospital also grab high attention
of media which describes the poor level of partnership working (Munn-Giddings and Winter,
2013). The death of Victoria occurred due to the negligence of her guardians like doctor and
social worker. Both these people failed to recognize the signs of intentional harm which was
present on Victoria Climbie. This case describes the failures in partnership working between the
health care professionals, agencies and organizations. With the help of this it is clear that
partnership working is essentially required because it would help to provide excellent quality of
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