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Working in partnership in health & social care

   

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Working in Partnership inHealth and Social Care
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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1TASK 1 ...........................................................................................................................................11.1 Philosophy of working in partnership..............................................................................11.2 Effectiveness of partnership relationships within health & social care............................2TASK 2 ...........................................................................................................................................32.1 Models of partnership working in health & social care...................................................32.2 Current legislation and organisational practices & policies for partnership working......52.3 Impact of different practices and policies on collaborative working...............................6TASK 3............................................................................................................................................73.1 Possible outcomes of working in partnership...................................................................73.2 Potential barriers to working in partnership.....................................................................73.3 Strategies to improve outcomes of partnership working..................................................8CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10
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INTRODUCTIONWorking in partnership refers to a collaborative relation between two or more partiesbased on equality, trust and mutual understanding for attaining specific goal. It include toperform together in team and put efforts through establishing effective cooperation as well ascoordination to complete particular tasks in health & social care for achieving desired objective.Moreover, it is necessary for healthcare professional to perform in partnership because it impacton patient outcomes and health (Barlow, Roehrich and Wright, 2013). The present report isbased on Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust which provide medical services to needypeople in order to make the well being. This assignment will focus on philosophies of workingand effectiveness of partnership relationships in health & social care. It will also include modelof partnership working with current legislation, organisational practices & policies and impact ofdifferent procedures in collaborative working respectively. The potential barriers and strategiesof increasing outcomes o working in partnership in health & social care is given below. TASK 1 1.1 Philosophy of working in partnershipWorking in partnership can be described to work in team by proper coordinationfocussing on same target in order to achieve with better outcomes. It required accuratecooperation between team members while conducting a task and complete the same with mutualunderstanding which facilitate to generate desired outputs respectively. In context of MidStaffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, they should follow several philosophies of working inpartnership in order to improve patient experience which are given below – Empowerment – This can be explained as an idea of providing skills, resources,authority, motivation and opportunities to employees with responsibility for their actionsand respective outcomes (Cameron and et. al., 2014). The Mid Staffordshire NHSFoundation Trust are required to apply the philosophy of empowerment so that they willdo their best for patient care and fulfil their responsibility appropriately which facilitateto improve problems in organisation.Autonomy – The term autonomy refers to a policy of providing a limited level of libertyto staff members so that they can make decision immediately because few of casesdemands for quick decision to save the patient. In case of Mid Staffordshire NHS1
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Foundation Trust, they should make strategy for employees to make decision inemergency situations for welfare of people. Powersharing – The power sharing is very important because responsibility tointerconnected with power which is not possible for one or limited group of people to befulfilled properly. It become pressure on them so that it is necessary to use delegation ofauthority with other employees related to field of expertise to perform the clinicalpractices properly (Cherry and Jacob, 2016). The Mid Staffordshire NHS FoundationTrust are required to improve level of care, leadership and humanity among staff whichfacilitate to solve problems of patients in organisation. Makinginformedchoices – The healthcare organisation always needs a team work inevery single case of patients regarding their medical problems including nurse, doctors,specialist and pathologist to make them healthy. In context of Mid Staffordshire NHSFoundation Trust, they are required to set a criteria of making records of medicalcondition of patient and then provide it to every professional associated with same case inrespect of conducting accurate treatment process for their welfare. 1.2 Effectiveness of partnership relationships within health & social carePartnership relation can be described as cooperation, trust and mutual understandingbetween team members while performing same tasks together in order to achieve desired results.It include to establish an effective coordination with people to work together by conductingmeetings and discussion about specific case to conduct accurate medication procedure forwelfare of patients along with reducing chance of occurring complicated situations. In context ofMid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, partnership is required to be improved at differentlevels to to establish patients centred policies and standards which are explained further – Service user level – The service user levels refers to establish an effective relation ofcarers with patients to make them comfortable in terms of sharing every problem to themaccurately (Hibbard and Greene, 2013). The Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust isrequired to take views or opinions from clients to implement openness & transparency, candourto patients and compassionate nursing which helps to reduce complications ans risks.Professional level – The professionals are required establish proper communication andmutual understanding between them to deal with single case of patients. A specific case ofhealth problem requires team of carers including doctor, pathologists, nurse and specialist to2
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