AHCM: Partnership Working, Policies in Health and Social Care

This report examines partnership working in health and social care, focusing on the approach used by AHCM (presumably a healthcare organization) and its stakeholders such as the Wise Men Network, Alliance of Religious People, and Tower Hamlet GP Network. It highlights the importance of clear roles, responsibilities, and information sharing within these partnerships. The report emphasizes the necessity of adhering to various legislations, policies, and organizational practices to ensure fairness and quality in service delivery. Key legislations mentioned include the Data Protection Act, Disability Act, and Equality Act 2010, as well as the Human Rights Act 1998, all of which guide AHCM in providing equitable and rights-based care. The document also acknowledges the potential challenges in collaborative working, such as confidentiality concerns, service user issues, and workload management, while stressing the benefits of improved decision-making and feedback loops. Desklib is a great resource for students looking for similar solved assignments and past papers.

/ Partnership working in
helath and social care
Different models of partnership
working
AHCM use partnership and
collaboration approach to deliver
outstanding services to patients and
clients. Wise Men Network,
Alliance of Religious People and
Tower Hamlet GP Network are
three stakeholders of AHCM.
 In this type of partnership
working organisation have
right to know the important
decision, theories of
collaborative working,
confidentiality,
empowerment, information
sharing, professional roles,
and responsibilities.
 It is necessary for each and
every member who is
involved in partnership
working have spate roles and
responsibility to deliver
outstanding health services.
Current legislation,
policies and
organisational practices
It is necessary for AHCM to use
various legislation, policies, and
practices to maintain fairness
while delivering health and
social café services to patients.
There is different relevant legislation
of health and social care which is
used by AHCM is given as below:
 Data protection act
 Disability
 Health issues
 Mental health
 Equality and inclusion
 Diversity

To accomplish set goals and objectives
it is highly important for AHCM to
give high attention to organisational
practices and policies that help to
deliver outstanding services to a cancer
patient in the UK.
In partnership working AHCM use
regional, local and national policy
according to which service provider
perform their roles and responsibilities.
It is necessary for an organisation to
provide required facilities to employees
so that they can high-quality treatment
to patients.
Organisational
practices and
policies Equality act 2010: This act state that
health and social care organisation
should provide equal treatment and
services to all patients without doing
any kind of discrimination among
them. AHCM provide equal ill-
treatment and persecution to its service
users.
Human rights act 1998: It is
developed by the government of UK
to protect and secure the human rights.
All health and social care organisation
use this act so that they provide great
services to patients with human rights.
AHCM follow this act while delivering
healthcare treatment and services to
patients in the UK.
Current legislation
At different organisation level
collaborative working is beneficial to
attain set outcomes. It improves
decision making process and
establishes loop of feedback.
Collaborative working also creates so
many issues in the workplace due to
which health and social care provider
face problem in operations. There are
a various limitation of collaborative
working such as confidentiality, service
users, time and workload.
DIFFERENCES IN WORKING
PRACTICES AND POLICIES AFFECT