Working in Partnership in Health and Social Care Assignment - NHS

Working in Partnership in
Health and Social Care

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
LO 1.................................................................................................................................................3
1.1 Philosophies of working in partnership in context of health and social care.................3
1.2 Partnership relation within health and social care services..............................................4
M1. Identify and apply strategies to find appropriate solution..............................................5
M2 Selection and application of appropriate methods...........................................................5
LO 2.................................................................................................................................................6
2.1 Models of partnership in context of health and social care sector..................................6
2.2 Identifying present laws , business practices and policies for partnership working in
contexyt of health and social.................................................................................................6
2.3 Analysing the way different working practices and policies have effect on collaborative
working...................................................................................................................................8
LO 3.................................................................................................................................................8
3.1 Evaluating possible results of working in partnership for service user, professionals and
organisations...........................................................................................................................8
3.2 Identifying obstacles to partnership working in context of health and social care........9
3.3 Strategies to improve outcomes for partnership working in health and social care services.
..............................................................................................................................................10
M3 Findings..........................................................................................................................11
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Partnership working in context of health and social care brings together separate
organisation so that so they can get various advantages from pulled expertness, resource and
sharing of power. The main objective of partnership is to stand in competition with providing the
best product and services. It is very much important for Health and social care professionals to
realise the value of encouraging independence in context of service users. Medical professionals
are required to be aware of their duties as well as responsibilities and the way they relate to
others within the sector. Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust is a foundation trust of NHS.
which managed two hospitals in Staffordshire, England. This file will consider partnership
philosophies and relationships in health and social care. It will emphasize on advantages of
partnership working with users of services, professionals and organisations in context of health
and Social care services. Further information about benefits of partnership working for users of
services, professionals and organisations in health and social care services.
LO 1
1.1 Philosophies of working in partnership in context of health and social care
When it is about philosophical thought of partnership working, philosophy in first place
Some philosophy concepts such as power sharing, empowerment, independence, respect,
autonomy and making choices etc. It is difficult for single organisation to succeed. It is essential
for people or organizations which are working in partnership to make sure that there is effective
communication, coordination of activities, and mutual understanding between the obsessed
partners. Effective communication is crucial in order to facilitate realisation and
accomplishment of desired results and objectives. (Glasby, 2016).
Power sharing is referred to as the separation of labour among the concerned
professionals engage in the partnership working in context of the health and social care services.
Through power sharing the service users will get the best support from right professional. Both
the employer and the union have different goals, but need a joint-goal that can only be achieved
by working together with equal power on both sides. Companies engaged in partnership

working should haver ability to authorise each other through adequate cooperation as well as
coordination of activities
Organisations working partnership in provision of health and social care services might
get depended on each other for financial, economic or social assistance. For example there is two
hospitals under Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation, one is Stafford hospital and other is
Cannock Chase hospital and they both have dependency on each other in every term. This trust
provided primary care to rural people.
Informed choice is when a person has the information about something and they have
capability of understand the information than they can support the opportunities to save
information.
1.2 Partnership relation within health and social care services
Partnership between health care industries is not too powerful. There are different levels
of partnership relations and firstly it comes to service users. This level refers to the relationship
between service users and Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation. Organisation is working with
respecting the dignity of service users. It has been estimated that between four hundred to
twelve hundred patients died due to poor care over the 50 months between January 2005 and
March 2009 at Stafford hospital, a small district general hospital in Staffordshire. Many people
who are disabled, can not approach to the services provide by health and social care(Manners,
2017).
The 2nd level of partnership is professed level which show the cooperation ass wselol as
collaboration between the different professed group those who work for life improvement of
patients. They both organisations in better link with each other in NHS trust. For instance, health
workers and doctors have been collaborating with biochemists and chemical engineers in
development of more effective drugs. Collaboration of educationalists, health workers is not too
good or bad (Dickinson and O'Flynn, 2016).. They maintain their services with all of these.
Members in NHS did not listen to its service user and employees in well manner.
Other health care institutions, training and professional representative Companies has
failed to bring out the professionalism and take action to protect service user.