Partnership Working in Health and Social Care

This assignment delves into the crucial concept of partnership working within the field of Health and Social Care. It examines the fundamental philosophies underpinning this approach, highlighting its significance in delivering effective and integrated care. The assignment also explores the diverse stakeholders involved in partnership collaborations, their roles, and responsibilities. Furthermore, it analyzes the benefits and challenges associated with partnership working, considering real-world examples and case studies to illustrate its practical implications.

WORKING IN
PARTNERSHIP IN HSC

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Task 1...............................................................................................................................................1
1.1 ..........................................................................................................................................1
1.2 ..........................................................................................................................................2
Task 2...............................................................................................................................................3
2.1 ..........................................................................................................................................3
2.2 ..........................................................................................................................................4
2.3 ..........................................................................................................................................4
Task 3 ..............................................................................................................................................5
3.1 ..........................................................................................................................................5
3.2 ..........................................................................................................................................6
3.3...........................................................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Over the years the medical facilities in the hospitals has been neglected, patients find
themselves that they have not been treated properly and they had a very bad experience with the
staff and the environment. Hospitals are that place where patients come out with good health and
able to do the work what they were doing earlier in proper manner (Linsley, Kane and Owen,
eds., 2011). The report is based on NHS foundation which was announced by Health secretary
Alan Milburn in around 2002. It is a semi-autonomous organisation within the national health
care services in England. Nowadays the foundation of NHS is almost approximately 152 in
numbers. The report will discuss about philosophy in partnership working this leads to
evaluation of partnership working and models for working together and current legislation
practises and policies, having difference in working policies and practises, possible outcomes
with partnership working and analysing the potential barriers in HSC providing the strategies to
overcome the barriers.
Task 1
1.1 .
Partnership is that in which two or more person come and provide the health care services
to the patients and working in partnership helps in fair and effective service for their users.
Various philosophies which has been undergoing with the concept of health care industry .
Philosophies is as follows:
Empowerment: It is the first thing which can be identified in working partnerships. This
means as activity to allow the service taker to have control of what services is required to be
taken and medical support for them (Sirdifield, et. al., 2016). When there is a partnership in
between two organisation then it is required for one firm to empowerment to have choice on the
behalf they show the firm. Somewhere this has reduced the dependency of participants when
making decisions.
Independence: This means getting free from any control or order from any people or
firm in day today life. In the partnership with health and care the independence should be on
organisation to make choices and continue wit the operations in proper manner. Somewhere it
result into that one organisation will not become dependent on any other organisation.
Sometimes they can dependent on other firm to provide services to the service users.
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Autonomy: This describes the self policies and norms of organisation who are members
of partnership care. This can be defined as controlling of every day activities and governance
policiess by themselves.
Respect: This is also a partnership philosophy. This has been explained as feeling in
deep for a person or team for their productivity and abilities. It is required that members f
partnership should respect each other which develop mutual understanding and reduce conflicts.
Power sharing: This philosophy means that when two organisation are coming in
partnership then the power lies in partnership and they can make decision and can bring changes
and this has to be shares in proper way. A shared power leads to in effective working and
decisions.
The informed decision should be there as if one organisation is making decision then the
other organisation should know about changes made this leads to effective and reduces conflicts
in between the firms.
1.2
There is a main advantage for the service takers that they can receive combined services
from the one organisation (Mendenhall, et. al., 2013). Example: There are so many social care
homes which come into partnership with health and care such as medical colleges and mental
hospitals. Somewhere the old people suffer from the both health issues.
Among hurdles, complexity can be fined as a hurdle for the effective partnership working
when the two organisation works together then the employees and the service and staff member
of hospitals becomes doubles and somewhere this creates a complexity that how employees can
be put in charge and how the controlling of services will be done in perfect way. So , here the
thing required is that the wide range of administration and collaboration in between among the
various employees structure. Thus having collaboration will lead to effective working by
organisation and the user ca receive the better services. Cultural problems of firm can be the
great hurdle for partnership working, such it can be related to objectives and goals of the
different members in firm. Hurdles are those which creates a problem in working (Montgomery,
et. al., 2017). Thus with such the end users who is going to receive the services will not be able
to get the best services as the culture of participants are becoming a issue.
Example: The acute sector and local authorities are having different objectives in nature which is
creating a problem to provide the better services to users. Issue is like local authorities are
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focused with social outcomes and acute sector is with short term health care thus it is creating a
issue in forming a general objective of both.
In such a way culture is creating a issues in objectives and aims in providing services to
users in perfect way.
Task 2
2.1
There are various theories found in the working in health and care. The different models
are networking, formal and informal and joint funding. The explanation of such models are as
follows:
Formal partnerships: The formal partnership is being made in between two or more
organisation in proper manner. This will include a formal agreement where all the participants
will make a signature as a authorisation and the partnership working will be declare to the large
public (Cramm, Phaff and Nieboer, 2013). In this partnership the control and management will
be shared among the organisation which will helps in increasing the effectiveness of the
management in firms.
Informal partnership: This partnership is the opposite of the formal partnership in this
there is no deed and nothing will be declared to public. Somewhere the management and control
of both the organisation will be different.
Joint funding: It is a theory of partnership working in which the two organisation who
are in partnership will receive the funds from the similar ways of as joint funding.
Networking: In this model the different health care organisation will make connections
and with this the service users is going to take the various scale of proper services from the one
network of various organisation.
Thus various models are those which helps different organisation to make decision in
proper manner through which the end users of services can receive the better services.
Partnership in organisation helps in getting the work done in perfect manner as well (Mani,
2010). These different models networking, joint funding, formal and informal partnership helps
the organisation in making the analysis that which model is better in all of those available.
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2.2
The various legislation, practises and policies in health and social cares services has
provided a wide scale or part of help to business. The health and social care act 2012 has been
the main act which has helped in making shape and control partnership in proper manner which
result into positive way. This acts has created and established many other agencies and the
models which has taken many other responsibilities of partnership working.
One of the agency is CQC(clinical commissioning group) which is related to economic
regulation in health and care services. Such kind of agencies do promote the partnership working
in between organisation just because this helps in bringing and maintaining the quality of
services offered y the different organisation (Tsegai and Gamiz, 2014.). This agency or CQC is
established by audits act and partnership working and health care trust. The reason behind the
CQC is to improve the service quality and mistakes made and reducing the infection rate and can
bring the effectiveness in working by organisation.
Care standard act 2000 in another act which was earlier established then act 2012, the act
already established standards of partnership working in provisions the health care business. The
healthcare commission, then team of commission for health inspection and the mental care are
already there which is being in the service of providing the service quality to users. But the care
act received all those organisation who are in partnership and has established care quality
commission which is somewhere auditing and managing the services in perfect manner.
Different legislation and commission always makes the organisation to provide the health care
services in better manner to users (McLaughlin, et. al., 2014). Various acts and partnership in
working in organisation helps in getting the effective working in their style.
The earlier act of 2000 was having activities which was also providing various services in
perfect manner but not proper as act 2012. clinical commissioning group helped the various users
to receive better services in hospitals thus partnership helped in getting proper services.
2.3
As such there are various types of health and cares partnership organisation as practises,
policies and type of organisation. Somewhere these differences in organisation and this impacts
the partnership work and how collaboration is done in two organisation is done in inside the
partnership. There are various types of organisation is somewhere a hurdle in collaboration work.
Example: Various health care organisation such as government organisation, specialist firms and
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many other providers. An organisation which is maintained by the government agencies and the
organisation which is managed by private firm has a very big differences. Differences can be in
the manner of administration system and may be the patient record system any differences can be
there in between the organisation. The funding scenario can be different in various organisation
and thus due to such reasons in firms they cannot collaborate with each other in working
conditions, may be they can collaborate with mutual understanding of both the organisation.
The different in practises and policies may be disappoint for the collaborating in
partnership of company. There are examples for such situation of organisation.
Example: There are various health services which are working as a voluntary and somewhere
this is working as lawful organisation. It has seen that employees practise method, employee and
there qualification and there knowledge level which is different. If organisation is working at
higher level and working with international voluntary firms (Bowman, et. al., 2011). This will
lead into the hurdle of language barrier as well. Somewhere these hurdles provide the differences
and that leads to the discouragement of flow of information in correct way and this makes the
informed decision making and this other important interaction and content cannot be
communicated. All such will lead into the poor communication and this will lead to coordination
and collaboration among the various health care organisations and such working partnership.
The discouragement of organisation relate to the various policies and practises they are
having in their working which is creating a hurdle in between working partnership.
Task 3
3.1
There are various ranges in benefits, strength, weaknesses and barriers are the outcome of
and it can be known as outcome of partnership in working health care services of organisation
(Kurunmäki and Miller, 2011). These all outcomes can be positive and negative in nature for all
the users of services, service providers and health care organisation and somewhere other people
who are involved in the various partnership working.
Thus the main benefit of partnership working is that organisation will work together and
services will be provided to users will be better thus it will lead into the increase in efficiency.
Efficiency is the measure through which how service are provided and how fast the services
were provided to its users and how quickly they have been able to develop their health and
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status. When organisation work with the collaboration then and having partnership in health care
services, with this the service user is able to receive two major kind of services or can large
range of services. This will help the user to go under the medical interventions in proper manner.
Other benefit of the partnership working is that it will lead into the reduction in cost of operation.
As the large organisation when work as single or partner the the cost of operations get shared
among those and it is being also divided into the various organisation who are working as
partner. As such many firms who are working in such partnership can work effectively and the
expensive medical tools can be shard among them and thus it will reduce the extra cost on
medical tools used (Hardie and Tilly, 2014). This will helps the service users to receive the best
services from hospitals and although it can be benefited for employees as they will receive more
benefits from collaboration of organisation.
More benefited outcome are like expected in partnership working with standardisation of
services and the procedures as well. When such thing is implemented on the working style in
health care partnership firms, somewhere with this rule both the organisation will use common
theories of practise in order to have consistency of their practises and training criteria and work
as mentoring in the organisation easier and perfect way. Thus such standardisation in the
working of hospitals will lead into the better services. The employees will work with ability in
any organisation because they will perform in great and best way.
The barrier which will come out with the partnership is that miscommunication in work
and in between parties too. Collaboration and coordination is very much required phenomenon in
organisation as they have to bring communication in between those to make the work going
concede to plans and policies so that they can provide the better services to the services users. In
hospitals higher number of employees and huge number of customers or users at a time will
result into the bad communication and coordination among the hospitals. Increased cost is
another barrier is increment in cost as to manages or to handle large number of employees and
huge users needs to be managed properly which will result into higher mentoring cost.
3.2
Many barriers can be known through research in the health care services as such the
professional boundaries are the main barrier which is creating problem for the hospitals in
coming put with the best services and operating and controlling as well. In professional barriers
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it will include that how the workers and employees needs to bring contact and relationship which
will provide data to other business in sense of the service have to be provided to end users.
More hurdles in health care and services partnership in the conflicting policies in the
hospitals. As such when there are two or more then two organisation come together it create a
situation of conflict as because the every organisation is having their own policies and
procedures as well. This will relate to as confusion to the employees as that which policy has to
be followed and workers do go in situation of conflict at the time of professional decisions and
how to make a control system of the organisation will be confused and impossible. In many
organisation the attitude of the employees also becomes the barriers in effective working as they
do not allow other organisation to collaborate because they don't want to share the values and
standards with any other firms (Sines, Saunders and Forbes-Burford, 2013). Somewhere such
kind of issues also creates problems for the organisation to provide the efficient services to
service users.
Barriers do intervene in between the perfect work the organisation can provide the better
services to the services users at that time when the member of different organisation will come
together and then firms will be able to work in partnership and in efficient way.
3.3
Thus setting the standard communication system will be a effective tool for the hospitals
as it will help in developing the communication scenario in the employees in health care. The
communication tool may include the various things like sorted patient or service user
administration system and data related to health issues (James and Walters, 2012). In this manner
the firms who are in the partnership be able to use the available information for the specified
customers with the one source and they can update the details which is going to help ion the
future services. Mainly the internal communication is going to be developed so that employees
can understand and proper interaction system can be established. Somehow this will avoid the
main confusions and misunderstanding which is taking place and helps in health care
organisation.
The senior managers sets the targets and objectives which has to be attain by them and
whole organisation works effectively to get those. Setting aim and objectives is somehow the
confirm theory which helps in developing effectiveness and the working in firm. In the health
care business the people or the group of person can be different the goals and targets will help in
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consequently which will help in attaining the objectives of the organisation. It is required by
every organisation is that their employees should increase their efficiency. In such a expected
outcomes can be received as what the expected manner has been thought.
CONCLUSION
Thud health and social care of services users is becoming conscious as many organisation
of health care sector coming in partnership which is making them to work in effective and
efficient manner. In this report the outcome is that there are two philosophies for working in
health care services and it was identified in proper manner and thus it is making into positive
impact of partnership. However the barriers and benefits ion health care services was also
identified which bought many things to know when the organisation coming in partnership. The
models of partnership and the legislations can be there and the outcome of collaboration was also
discussed in the report. The total outcome of the report is that if two or more organisation works
in coordination and collaboration with each other then it will be having many positive and
negative outcome which will affect the performance of organisation and users will not able to
take the better services.
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Books and Journals
Bowman, J., et. al., 2011. Respite care needs for families of children with life-limiting
conditions: Janet Bowman, Ruth Butcher and Sue Dolby discuss how a children’s
charity has developed a resource allocation tool to use in partnership with service
users. Nursing children and young people. 23(6). pp.14-18.
Cramm, J.M., Phaff, S. and Nieboer, A.P., 2013. The role of partnership functioning and synergy
in achieving sustainability of innovative programmes in community care. Health &
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Hardie, E. and Tilly, L., 2012. An introduction to supporting people with a learning disability.
Sage.
James, P. and Walters, D., 2012. Partnership in Health and Safety: A Source of Fair and
Ethical. BUSINESS & PROFESSIONAL ETHICS JOURNAL, 21(2).
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modernising government. Management Accounting Research. 22(4). pp.220-241.
Linsley, P., Kane, R. and Owen, S. eds., 2011. Nursing for public health: promotion, principles
and practice. Oxford University Press.
Mani, S., 2010. Note on Friedman's ‘fundamental theorem of biomedical informatics’. Journal of
the American Medical Informatics Association. 17(5). pp.614-614.
McLaughlin, D., et. al., 2014. Developing a best practice model for partnership practice between
specialist palliative care and intellectual disability services: a mixed methods
study. Palliative medicine. 28(10). pp.1213-1221.
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Mendenhall, T.J., et. al., 2013. Community-Based Participatory Research: Advancing Integrated
Behavioral Health Care Through Novel Partnerships. In Integrated Behavioral Health
in Primary Care (pp. 99-130). Springer New York.
Montgomery, L., et. al., 2017. Adult safeguarding in Northern Ireland: prevention, protection,
partnership. The Journal of Adult Protection. 19(4). pp.199-208.
Sines, D., Saunders, M. and Forbes-Burford, J. eds., 2013. Community health care nursing. John
Wiley & Sons.
Sirdifield, C., et. al., 2016. Probation’s role in offender mental health. International journal of
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