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Working in Partnership in health and social care

   

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Working in Partnership

TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1TASK 1............................................................................................................................................11.1 The philosophies of working in partnership in health and social care..................................11.2 Evaluating partnership relationship within health and social care services..........................2TASK 2............................................................................................................................................32.1 Models of partnership working in health and social care sector...........................................32.2 Reviewing the current legislation and organizational practices and policies........................42.3 Differences in working practices and policies affects the collaborative working.................5TASK 3............................................................................................................................................63.1 Outcomes of partnership working for service users, professionals and organizations..........63.2 Analyzing the potential barriers of partnership working.......................................................73.3 Strategies to improve outcomes for partnership working......................................................8CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTIONWorking in partnership in health and social care organizations is identified as an effectivestrategy for successfully transferring services to its service users and service providers as well.Working in a partnership is beneficial for people who plan and provide services to other people,by putting together new and improved solutions for difficult problems (Aubrey and Cohen 2000).This report is based on case scenario of health and social care organizations in residentialsettings. This report will help in understanding the partnership philosophies and relationships inhealth and social care services as well as how to promote positive partnership working withservice users, professionals and organizations in health and social care.TASK 11.1 The philosophies of working in partnership in health and social careAt the time of working in a partnership firm, there are some philosophies that relates withpartnership working. These philosophies are as follows,Shared vision: Shared vision is a structure that supports and facilitates the developmentof health and social care organization. Shared vision in partnership is developed bypeople with the help of communication within the health and social care organization.Shared vision in partnership brings individuals, statutory agencies and key communitiestogether (Cooney, 2002). All the partners of health and social care organizations have theresponsibility of promoting health care and collecting information about current issuesand concerns. Shared vision philosophies work along with shared responsibility ofproviding effective health care services. Empowerment: Further, empowerment in health and social care organization is a processby which people increase their control on decision making and activities which affectsthe health of service users. The empowerment is a critical foundation between clients andprofessionals for developing an honest relationship. For instance, once in health careorganization, the patient was treated with wrong medication which made negative impacton patient's health. This issue affected quality of the organization (Miller, Whoriskey andCook, 2008). However, being an internal quality assurance officer, it was myresponsibility to develop empowerment of effective decision making in patients so that1

they can take efficient actions for their treatment. This philosophy of empowermenthelped in improving quality of health and social care organization.Independence: Independence is one of the effective philosophies in partnership.Independence is free from outside control. In terms of partnership in health and socialcare organization, independence is the ability to make effective decisions which affectsindividuals’ life without anyone's control whether it is family member or health careprofessional. Independence in all individuals creates power of decision making and selfconfidence which can be helpful in improving quality of health care organization(Whoriskey, Miller and Cook, 2008).Equity: Moreover, the philosophy of equity creates fairness. Equity in partnership means,every patient should be treated equally and should be provided equal access of healthservices equally. The philosophy of equity improves the quality of health careorganizations as it provides each client effective and equal care.1.2 Evaluating partnership relationship within health and social care servicesHealth and social care professionals in residential settings have significant relationshipwith partners. The relationship of partnership within the health and social care services can beevaluated on various levels. All levels of relationship and professional groups are based uponsome activities which are related to the performance and quality of the organization. These levelsof partnership relationship are service user professionals, interpersonal level relationship andorganizational level relationship. Service user- Professionals relationship in residential setting isvery important (Bond and Syson, 2010). The health care professional in residential setting are thepart of unit who are directly related to service users, as they provide their services theirprofessional services to them. Similarly, service users get the services from health careprofessionals. Thus, both of them share effective relationship with each other. However, thehealth care professionals provide effective services to users of services with some extrasettlement in short time but sometimes it is not possible to provide them long term benefits. Furthermore, one of the most important levels of partnership relationship in residentialsetting is interpersonal level of relationship. In this level of relationship, the service professionalsestablish relationship with the service users who are old aged, retired workers and mentallychallenged people who are less demanding and are not able to say what they need. The healthcare professionals establish effective communication with them (Dickinsonand Glasby, 2009).2

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