Report: Working in Partnership in Health and Social Care Sector

This report delves into the philosophies and practicalities of partnership working within the health and social care sectors, primarily focusing on the UK context with specific references to NHS England and Public Health England. It begins by outlining the core principles and philosophies underpinning effective partnerships, emphasizing collaboration and resource sharing. The report then evaluates existing partnership relationships, highlighting the roles of NHS England and Public Health England in providing services and addressing the needs of vulnerable populations. It analyzes different models of partnership working, including virtual organizations and steering groups, and examines the relevant legislation and organizational practices that govern these collaborations, such as the Community Care Act and Children Act. The report further explores how differences in working practices and policies can affect collaborative efforts, identifying potential barriers related to resource allocation, technology, and operational differences. Finally, it evaluates the potential outcomes of partnership working for service users, professionals, and organizations, and proposes strategies to improve outcomes and overcome barriers, ultimately aiming to enhance the quality and effectiveness of health and social care services.

WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP
IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL
CARE

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P 1.1 The philosophy of working in partnership in health and social care.................................1
P 1.2 Evaluation of partnership relationships within health and social care services.................2
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................3
P 2.1 Analyses model of partnership working across the health and social care sector.............3
P 2.2 The current legislation and organisational practices and policies for partnership working
in health and social care..............................................................................................................4
P 2.3 Explain how difference in working practices and policies affect collaborative working..5
P 4.1 Evaluate possible outcomes of partnership working for users of services, professionals
and organisations.........................................................................................................................6
P 3.2 The potential barriers to partnership working in health and social care services..............7
P 3.3 Strategies to improve outcomes of partnership working in health and social care............8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
In this documentation, we would take a look at the philosophies of working in partnership
in health and social care and also evaluate the partnership relationships within health and social
care services. Furthermore, we will discuss about to model of partnership working across the
health and social care sector within NHS England and Public health England firms and also
explain how differences in working practices and policies affect collaborative working. We
would also analyse the potential barriers to partnership working in health and social care services
in the UK. Ultimately, we will evaluate possible outcomes of partnership working for users of
services professionals and organisations as well and derive those strategies which make
improvement in outcomes for partnership working in health and social care services.
TASK 1
P 1.1 The philosophy of working in partnership in health and social care
There are many social and health care organisation nowadays play a vital role in terms of
providing facilities and quality of health and social care services. Partnership working describe
about to working with collaboratively with two or more individual persons, governments,
agencies and companies with sharing their work and interest with them. Two or more
organisations want to work together to share their resources and interest to accomplish their
desired goals and services in social and health care sector(Tussing and Wren, 2017). Several
philosophies have been formulated in order to facilitating partnership working among
organisations in health and social care sector.
 First of all, organisation inclusion in partnership must be associated with working
collaboratively and helping nature to supporting their daily activities to each other in the
business and their corporation as well. This activity help to the care trust to accomplish
their desired goals and objectives effectively.
 Another philosophies of working in partnership describe about to provision in health and
social care facilities might depend on each other collaboration such as financial support,
economical and social support etc(Shepherd, Boardman and Burns, 2010). Dependency
of each other organisations assist them to develop more effective working condition and
sharing required information regarding to make appropriate decision in respect of provide
effective health and social services.
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 Moreover, both organisation must be able to stand their own respective in terms of
critical condition. Health and social care organisation must be able to provide their
effective services frequently in the absence of one organisation within partnership.
However, organisation must working continuously in the social and health care sector in
the absence of one entity in partnership, it may give negative and positive impact on
another partner company. Thus, big warning should be taken.
P 1.2 Evaluation of partnership relationships within health and social care services
In the point of view of health and social care companies partnership are doing well job
and providing their effective services in the UK(Reutter and Kushner, 2010). NHS England and
Public health England both are working collaboratively in the UK and play leading role in terms
of developing more effective services to facilitate old persons and person with disability
individuals to help them in social and health care issue of them. Many of time it could be seen
that old person and person with disability individual are discriminated with some other people
who are living well and never face any of health and social issues in the society. Similarly,
persons with learning disability and mental issues have also been discriminated by some well
being human in the society and such kind of persons are not giving chances to formulate decision
concerning about to providing reliable treatment to them like surgery and operation so that it can
be said that health and social care sector organisations like NHS England and Public health
England plays a vital role in terms of providing them proper services to remove their all barriers
which are facing by old and disability person within the society.
NHS England and Public health England both organisation playing leading role in with
helping needed people in the society(Reeves, Lewin, Espin and Zwarenstein, 2011). They have
implemented a survey in which they select those persons which are suffering big disease and
they have not any person to provide them sufficient health care services so that NHS England
and Public health England both organisations health care professionals are providing relevant
services such as providing required medicines and treatments to them, providing medical
services to their homes and also providing remedies in critical condition such as flood in the city,
heavy rain rescue facilities etc. they both are doing effectively their works with partnership and
their partnership relation make them more sufficient working potential towards services and they
both using their sufficient resources at the workplace to furnishing social services to them.
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TASK 2
P 2.1 Analyse model of partnership working across the health and social care sector
There are major four models are classified in terms of making partnership working across
health and social care sector. These modes are as following:
 separation of organisations with legal identities
 Formulation of specific virtual company without legal arrangement.
 Co-allocation with staff members from associating companies.
 Formulation of steering group(Parrott, 2014). In the first model, both entities NHS England and Public health England should have
separate legal identities which must have in separate form and then both organisations
come together to create a virtual organisation which have no legal identities. Virtual
platform furnish services to make a collaborative virtual organisation which have safe
entity. Both companies must have legal identities which must be in legal arrangement that
make the best partnership services among the health and social care needed people. After
formulating virtual entity of both companies then partner member may co-allocation of
their staff and professionals and use their collaborative resources in terms of proving
more effective services to their social and health care clients within the company.
Steering group influence other organisation in order to association of more companies in
partnership to formulate a big company in respect to providing the best health and social
care services within the UK. Moreover, these models of partnership in health and social
care sector provide some principle which are necessary for partnership working in this
sector(Munn-Giddings and Winter, 2013). Principles involves absolute openness, make
trust and honesty between partnership companies, an agreement must be signed by both
the companies in terms of work collaboratively to accomplish their desired goals and
objectives effectively. Frequent communication and exchange of some ideas and
thoughts must be there within partnership firm to develop their new plan more effectively
and innovation implement in NHS England and Public health England firm services in
very effective manner. s
 Multi area agreement: In this approach there are some collaboration between some
regional and sub-regional level in terms of multi area agreement to expand their ares of
furnishing health and social care services effectively. These ways can be developed by
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NHS England and Public health England both companies to making agreement with
department for communities and governments to be associated with top local authorities
to provide theirs health and social care services to mostly old person and person with
disability person in the society who need to use their services efficiently.
P 2.2 The current legislation and organisational practices and policies for partnership working in
health and social care
There are some legislation provision are presented to working with partnership in health
and social care sector(Maslin-Prothero and Bennion, 2010). There are must e active involvement
of service user while furnishing effective services and they need to seek permission of patient
before furnishing life-threatening treatment like providing surgery and operational treatments,
monitoring and regulation of health and social care facilities by regional authorities of care
providers and government entities of social are sector. The health, social care and well-being
regulation 2003 are authorised to make and implementation of several policies and legal
strategies which are necessary to developing the quality of health and social care sector in the
UK. The community care act of 1990 and health act of 1998: Both act furnish facilities of
health and social care sector in effective way. These two legislation provision provides
the value of equal advantage of partnership including working in partnership with their
benefits in the social care sector as well. Both act provide provision about how
partnership companies should follow their policies, rule and regulation in terms of
providing appropriate services to their clients and service needed persons. Making local
council reliable for funding for long terms in order to provide relevant services to their
elder people within the society. NHS England and Public health England both
organisations should follow the provision of this legislation in partnership.
 Children act 2004: this act provides some provision in which both partnership companies
must follow, there are no children involve as a social and health service provider in the
company and also ensure that they are not facing any kind of harassment and
discrimination in the society(Manley, Hills and Marriot, 2011). With the help of this act
they could use some remedy who are facing this kind of problem in the society.
Moreover, creating a learning climate in the society and enforcing for utilising some
government rule and policies with the help of government regulations. Nevertheless, major
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service provider in the social and health care sector joined professional bodies like the
Association of directors if social services and with the help of these legislative regulations NHS
England and Public health England both entities would be able to share their issues and learn to
effective solve these barriers and issues in the health and social care sector.
P 2.3 Explain how difference in working practices and policies affect collaborative working
It can be stated that there are several problems are identified in past few days because of
lack of social workers in the society and lacking of availability of health and social care services
demanding by their clients and in the field of geographical barriers and client specific demand of
care sector(Lowes and Hulatt, eds., 2013). In the collaborative service providing there are several
barriers and issues are faced by both NHS England and Public health England organisations and
some advantage and disadvantages are as following:
 There are different resources and operational works are associated with its different-
different departments in which provide some destructive issues within collaborative work
which could be possible to become a major barrier in partnership of NHS England and
Public health England both entities.
 The different entities like NHS England and Public health England both organisations has
different criteria in funding and budgeting can be affected with collaborative working
situation of both company and their different working practices could affect the working
condition of both companies in health and social care sector in the UK.
 Different organsiations uses different innovative technology in their companies so that
they would be able to use in different manner of furnishing services in different manner
that can negatively affect collaborative working condition in health care sector(Glasby,
2017).
 Some of their advantages are as following:
 Share information could be the best possible advantage for NHS England and Public
health England both company in terms of share their working experience and resources
between both the companies so that they will be able to furnish more appropriate services
to old peoples and person with disability person effectively.
 Working in collaboration is also a beneficial part in respect of positively using their
resources in terms of development and reduce using of duplicate resources in the services
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of health care by proving both the company so that it would be beneficial for the firm and
social service user as well.
 With the association of skill, different social care agencies, legal and administrative
agencies could be beneficial for the firm in terms of development of their all areas and
NHS England and Public health England both organisations can make use of their
different experience in terms of their project succession in several ways.
Moreover, different techniques of running their operation in different manner can be possible to
make more succession of their activities within the organisations(Glasby and Dickinson, 2014).
These all different working practices and policies may affect the collaborative working condition
in very effective manner so that it could be beneficial for NHS England and Public health
England both entities to enhance their working capacity in social and health care sector
efficiently.
 TASK 4
P 4.1 Evaluate possible outcomes of partnership working for users of services, professionals and
organisations
With the help of collaborative works of NHS England and Public health England both
entities and there are several beneficial are presented for service user, professionals and
organisation as well. They offer high quality of services and product to their social users to help
them more effectively which are they need most in the social life(Emerson, 2012). It would assist
to become user more satisfied with the assistance of partnership working. Many times it can be
seen that partnership working may lead of employment ad training and development program
among the partnership entities which increase employment of health professionals like nurses,
doctor, social workers and health care worker etc. Legal: Different type of company are operating in different kind of geographic region so
that there are different-different legal rules and regulation that are applying which affect
health and social care sector effectively. There might be possible arise of different legal
factors which affect negatively and positively in both side of NHS England and Public
health England firm to furnish their services in health and social care sector. Administrative: There are two NHS England and Public health England companies
which are following different working culture in health and social are sector. Both
companies have unique administrative organisational structure in which they follow their
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several rules to run their organisation in different manner so that it could generate some
difficulties to their professionals to not feeling comfortable to work with other
organisation's professionals.
 Complexity and expenditure: There could arise several complexities within the firm and
they need to develop their some particular effective way in which they could solve them
efficiently(Creek and Lougher, 2011). For example: NHS England and Public health
England both companies are facing complexity when they collaborative working together
because of both organisations have its own different working culture so that it effect the
way in which more complexity could be raised and both companies have their different-
different budgeting policies so that they can not make their proper budgeting in
partnership working so it makes negative effect on both corporations.
P 3.2 The potential barriers to partnership working in health and social care services Low cost: NHS England and Public health England both companies are working
partnership can reduce the price of their health and social care services at very low prices
that can increase the expenditure of both companies and it could be the one barrier to
decrease the profitability of both firm(Bryson, 2016) Resources: The lacking of resources can be second barriers in the different ways like if
both entities are using same resources to providing appropriate health and social care
services to their customers then it could be possible that resources can be decreased by
their over used in both the firm. Shared information: Each organisation gain their personal experience, skill and
knowledge by working in health and social care sector and generate some their own
important information and data which is necessary to be safe within the organisation. So
make sure that their confidential information and data sharing way must be more reliable
in terms of developing their areas in different manner(Care Quality Commission, 2012).
And this could be one of essential barriers for both firm.
 Technical: There can arise some technical issues and barriers in both NHS England and
Public health England organisations in order to accomplish their desired goals and
objectives within the firm. There are some technology which must be used in partnership
working in health and social care sector. Use old techniques can not provide them
effective knowledge and working condition to provide their services more effectively.
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P 3.3 Strategies to improve outcomes of partnership working in health and social care Volunteer and professionals: To improve the quality of working collaboratively between
volunteer and their professionals, a wide range of different health and social care sector
are depended on volunteer workers so that you can use some volunteer workers who are
trained by professional in health care sector so that they would be able to cover their all
areas in which they want to provide their services(Barrington, 2017). Professional
workers can be trained with innovative techniques of manage NHS England and Public
health England both firm administration so that they would be able to increase their
market shares and productivity effectively.
 Client contact: There are various ways in which they can provide their effective services
in health and social care sector. They can improve the quality in which they can increase
their value on customer mind and in social sector that gives them to improve the quality
of services to their clients. They can make contact to their clients to improve and provide
their preferred services according to their customer demand. They can take marketing and
promotion activities effectively to know their regional area people about their better
services and then they will increase outcomes of NHS England and Public health England
both firm.
CONCLUSION
In this investigation, we have concluded about to the working in health and social sector
which are most essential to help their needed persons. On above discussion, it is concluded that
the philosophies of working in partnership in health and social care sector which are necessary to
gain success in these sectors. Moreover, it is also concluded about to the models of partnership
working in NHS England and Public health England firm across the health and social care sector
and reviewed current legislation and organisational practices and policies for partnership
working in health and social care sector in the UK. We have also concluded about to how
differences in working practices and policies affect NHS England and Public health England
firm in collaborative working. Ultimately, we have concluded about to the strategies to imptove
outcomes for partnership working in health and social care sector within NHS England and
Public health England both corporations.
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