Working in Partnership: A Comprehensive Guide to Health and Social Care Collaboration

This comprehensive guide explores the philosophy, models, and outcomes of partnership working in health and social care. It examines the importance of collaboration between professionals, organizations, and service users, analyzing the benefits and challenges of this approach. The guide also delves into relevant legislation, organizational practices, and strategies for improving partnership outcomes.

WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP
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Table of contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
LO1 Understand partnership philosophies and relationships in health and social care services.....4
1.1 Explain the philosophy of working in partnership in health and social care.........................4
1.2 Evaluate partnership relationships within health and social care services............................4
LO2 Understand how to promote positive partnership working with users of services,
professionals and organisations in health and social care services..................................................5
2.1 Analyse models of partnership working across the health and social care sector.................5
2.2 Review current legislation and organisational practices and policies for partnership
working in health and social care................................................................................................6
2.3 Explain how differences in working practices and policies affect collaborative working....7
LO3 Be able to evaluate the outcomes of partnership working for users of services, professionals
and organisations in health and social care services (Refer to PPT)...............................................8
3.1 Evaluate possible outcomes of partnership working for users of services, professionals and
organisations................................................................................................................................8
3.2 Analyse the potential barriers to partnership working in health and social care services
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3.3 Devise strategies to improve outcomes for partnership working in health and social care
services......................................................................................................................................13
Reference list.................................................................................................................................14
Appendix........................................................................................................................................16
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Introduction
Working in the partnership helps in comprehending with that of gaining connectivity that helps
in enhancing the knowledge and the idea of considering valuable concepts that delves within the
fathom of prosperous thoughts. This connectivity thereby helps in maintaining a strong bond of
relationship in between one or two at a same point of time. In the end, this strong bond allows
both of them to build up an intermediary long condition that tends to haul up the administration
of the suppliers, buyers and the manufacturers of the products. Working in partnership thereby
focuses on the performance of management and the organizational body of the respective
organization. With respect to the health and social care organization, working in partnership
tends to convey statutory level of mind and health simultaneously of one particular individual.
The successive report thereby sheds light upon the basic thoughts and ideas about the
significance of working in a parallel forethought in convincing partnership working. Thereby the
working in partnership and the relationships of partnership working within the health and social
care can be evaluated from the assigned report. Further evaluation on working in partnership in
health and social care sector can be deduced from the succeeding report.
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LO1 Understand partnership philosophies and relationships in health and social care
services
1.1 Explain the philosophy of working in partnership in health and social care
Every health and social care sector goes through certain structural dissimilarities that sometimes
lead to the cause of barriers affecting the metal strength of the service users and the service
providers and the care providers of the organization (Millar and Hall, 2013). It is the major
responsibility of the particular organization in order to make check the quick decisions taken
with respect to the developmental growth of the organization (Nakanishi and Nakashima, 2014).
Thereby the philosophy on the basis of which the partnership in working in health care sectors
tentatively works includes the followings factors:
 The cost management facilities need to be checked (Steventon et al., 2013).
 The risk management of the organization need to be framed and evaluated (Agdas et al.,
2015).
 The communication management needs to be checked (Andrews et al.,2015).
 The assimilation of dissimilarities needs to be controlled (Bunn et al.,2017).
1.2 Evaluate partnership relationships within health and social care services
The functional operations of the partnership working with respect to the social and the health
care sectors can be evaluated from the following observations drawn:
 Developing truthful contact with that of the care users and the care providers should be
developed (Dickinson and O'Flynn, 2016).
 Developing admiration for the circumstances leading to it
 Bearing the successful peers and the availability of the peer review
 Providing equality to every individual and allowing every individual to develop belief
for each other
 Developing the characteristics of frankness that helps in developing a proper
communication development within the organization (Dimond, 2016).
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LO2 Understand how to promote positive partnership working with users of services,
professionals and organisations in health and social care services
2.1 Analyse models of partnership working across the health and social care sector
Working in the partnership helps in comprehending with that of gaining connectivity that helps
in enhancing the knowledge and the idea of considering valuable concepts that delves within the
fathom of prosperous thoughts (Glasby and Dickinson, 2014). This connectivity thereby helps in
maintaining a strong bond of relationship in between one or two at a same point of time. With
respect to the health and social care organization, working in partnership tends to convey
statutory level of mind and health simultaneously of one particular individual. It can be evaluated
that maintaining a proper partnership goals helps in evaluating a better involvement with respect
to the organizational growth of the respective organization (Glasby, 2017). Hence, with the
implication of the structured models that deals with the successive the working in partnership can
be analyzed across the health and the social sector. It can further be elucidated based on the
following models, which includes the followings:
 The unified model:
The unified model includes the factor that helps to provide a uniformed structure to the
organizational growth (Harris and White, 2018). The factors include the followings:
THE FACTORS THAT JUSTIFIES THE UNIFIED MODEL
1. IT PROVIDES SINGLE SYSYTEM WITH RESPECT TO THE DELIVERY
SERVICES PROVIDED TO THE SERVICE USERS OF THE HEALTH AND
THE CARE SECTORS
2. IT INCLUDES THE BASIC CARE AND HEALTH RELATED ACTIVITIES
THAT NEEDS TO BE PROVIDED TO EVERY INDIVIDUAL CARE USERS BY
THE SERVUICE PORVIDERS IN A RESPECTIVE CARE SECTOR CENTRE
3. IT INCLUDES PROPER PLANNING WITH RSEPECT TO FINNACIAL
BACKUP
4. IT PROMOTES BASIC MOTIF IN MEETING WITH THE OBSERVED AIMS
AND OBJECTIVES OF A RESPECTIVE ORGANIZATION
Table 1: The factors that justifies the unified model
(Source: Created by the author)
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 The coalition model:
With respect to the health and social care organization, working in partnership tends to convey
statutory level of mind and health simultaneously of one particular individual. It can be evaluated
that maintaining a proper partnership goals helps in evaluating a better involvement with respect
to the organizational growth of the respective organization. This can further be elucidated with
the implementations of the coalition model. The factor that can be observed for defining the
usefulness of the coalition model can be studied from the following tabular structure provided
below:
THE FACTORS THAT JUSTIFIES THE COALITION MODEL
1. SERVICES AND ACITIVITIES NEED TO BE PERFORMED ACCORDINGLY
BY THE PARTNERS WHO ARE TENTATIVELY WORKING IN
PARTNERSHIP
2. THE PERFORMANCE OF THE EMPLOYEES OF THE HEALTH CARE
SECTORS NEED TO BE PERFORMED INDIVIDUALLY AND CAREFULLY
3. THE SEGMENTED PERFORMANCE NEED TO WORK ACCORDINGLY
WITH RESPECT TO THE TASK ASSIGNED TO THE EMPLOYEES
WORKING IN THE ORGANIZATION
Table 2: The factors that justifies the coalition model
(Source: Created by the author)
 The hybrid model:
The hybrid model works with accordance to that of the activities and the performance that tends
to submerge the above models, which include the unified model and the coalition model. The
combination of the factors and the features of the employees working in the health care sector
works with accordance to that of the activities assigned to every individual.
2.2 Review current legislation and organisational practices and policies for partnership
working in health and social care
With respect to the health and social care organization, working in partnership tends to convey
statutory level of mind and health simultaneously of one particular individual. In the above it has
been discussed the derogative form of observed barriers that tentatively shows that the barriers
observed need to be controlled and checked. The policies and the legislative practices that can be
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implemented to work on the policies and the practices of working in partnership in the social and
the health care sectors can be discussed with the implementations of the following acts include
the followings:
 The community care act of 2010
 The mental capacity act of 2005
 The children’s act of 1989
With the implications of the above act the factors that evolves the features are:
 Taking care of the health and services provided to the service users
 Keeping the service users safe and secured
 Providing positive contribution towards the care users
2.3 Explain how differences in working practices and policies affect collaborative working
With accordance to various health care policies and legislatives, there are various working
practices performed by various work fields that tends to work by going through the affect of
collaborative working (Huff et al., 2015). With respect to the health and social care organization,
working in partnership tends to convey statutory level of mind and health simultaneously of one
particular individual (Hurley and Linsley, 2018). The different sectors that take up the above-
mentioned policies include the following:
 Education institution:
The education institutions focus in maintaining the organization with respect to providing
equal knowledge and right to the children for gaining proper information.
 BMS health care sector:
The health care sectors look into the main factor that emphasizes basic services that needs to
be provided to every service users of the service sectors and the health care sectors.
 The government sectors:
The government sectors looks in providing equal rights and duties that every individual
deserve with respect to the care services.
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LO3 Be able to evaluate the outcomes of partnership working for users of services,
professionals and organisations in health and social care services (Refer to PPT)
3.1 Evaluate possible outcomes of partnership working for users of services, professionals
and organisations
Working in the partnership helps in comprehending with that of gaining connectivity that helps
in enhancing the knowledge and the idea of considering valuable concepts that delves within the
fathom of prosperous thoughts (Low et al., 2015). This connectivity thereby helps in maintaining
a strong bond of relationship in between one or two at a same point of time. The most possible
outcomes observed with respect to the working in partnership in a health and social care sector
based on taking care of the children and their mental growth can be evaluated in certain
respective ways (Manthorpe et al., 2015). The ways are tend to deal with specific organizational
grounds that work accordingly. The outcomes can further elucidated from the following structure
as give below:
THE GROUNDS OF
OBSERVATIONS OF THE
OUTCOMES
TYPES OF OUTCOME CRITERIA OF
OUTCOMES
1. The most possible
outcome of working in
partnership in health
and social sector with
respect to the service
users of the
organization
 The positive outcome
 Autonomy
 Empowerment of the
service users
 Improved services
provided to the service
users with comparison
to that of before
 Skilful employee and
service providers to
look after the service
users properly and
treat them equally
 Lack of proper
communication
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 The negative outcome  Frustration among the
employees of the
organization
 Fraud and duplicate
medication provides
damage to the health of
the service users
 Less pay of wages
redeems the employee
from providing proper
and wilful treatment
2. The most possible
outcome of working in
partnership in health
and social care sector
with respect to the
professionals working
within the organization
 The positive outcome  Professional
approaches which are
skilful and secretive
 Effective method of
carrying out the
communication and
developing proper
communication
 Effectiveness in the
usage of the material
resources received
 Performing the roles
and duties of each of
the members
simultaneously
 The negative outcome  The chance in the
increase in the number
of rivalry in the
partnership working
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among the partnership
 Mismanagement with
respect to cost and
funding creates
problem for the
management
department of the
organization
 Lack of
miscommunication
leads another problem
for the conflict among
the partners with
respect to working in
partnership in the
health and social care
sectors.
3. The most possible
outcome of working in
partnership in health
and social care sector
with respect to the
organization
 The positive outcome
 In this case the
organization works on
the basis of sharing of
same principle
 The practices of
working for every
employee working
within the
organization
tentatively remains the
same
 Every employee of the
organization tends to
provide integrated
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services to all the
services users
 The employee works
under the coherent
approach
 The negative outcome
 The cost of the
services tentatively
tends to increase
 A breakdown in
communication
creates problem
 Loss in the purpose of
sharing the issues and
regulations
Table 3: The possible outcomes of partnership working for users of services, professionals
and organisations
(Source: Created by the author)
3.2 Analyse the potential barriers to partnership working in health and social care
services
The potential barriers, which are observed in partnership working, can be evaluated as below:
 The structural barriers:
Every health and social care sector goes through certain structural dissimilarities that sometimes
lead to the cause of barriers affecting the metal strength of the service users and the service
providers and the care providers of the organization (Milani, 2017).
 The financial barriers:
Financial support acts as the major support for any developmental growth of the organization.
Improper financial support acts as the major barrier that obstructs the entire mechanism of
working in partnership (Miller, 2016).
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Figure 1: the potential barriers observed in HSC
(Source: Created by the author)
 The procedural barriers:
With respect to procedural barriers, the organization fails to meet with customising solutions to
the structure of the organization. Thereby it shows that the working procedure for the policy
making of the organization needs to be changed with accordance to the observed barrier.
 The professional barriers:
Observations have been drawn that professional and the personal barrier acts as the manor failure
that stops from having developmental growth to the organization that need to accumulate the
major disruption with respect to working in partnership in the health and the social sector.
3.3 Devise strategies to improve outcomes for partnership working in health and social
care services
Partner working thereby focuses on the performance of management and the organizational body
of the respective organization (Mossberg, 2016). With respect to the health and social care
organization, working in partnership tends to convey statutory level of mind and health
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THE BARRIERS
OBSERVED IN
HSC
PROFESSIONAL
BARRIERS
PROCEDURAL
BARRIERS
FINANCIAL
BARRIERS
STRUCTURAL
BARRIERS

simultaneously of one particular individual. In the above it has been discussed the derogative
form of observed barriers that tentatively shows that the barriers observed need to be controlled
and checked (Moule, 2015). The strategies that can be implemented to improve the barriers and
outcomes observed for working in partnership in a health and the social care sector services are
as follows:
 It is the major responsibility of the particular organization in order to make check the
quick decisions taken with respect to the developmental growth of the organization.
 Informing and training every employee working in a respective health care sector based on
the main objectives that assign the major objectives and the goals of the employee.
 Providing awareness to every employee working in a particular organization to work with
accordance to that of meeting and fulfilling the choices of the service users of the
respective organization.
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