Partnership in Health and Social Care: Strategies and Outcomes

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of partnership working in health and social care. It begins by defining the philosophy of partnership, emphasizing power sharing, interdependence, and mutual respect among organizations. The report evaluates partnership relationships, highlighting the importance of leadership, vision, strategy, and evaluation. It then analyzes various partnership models, including unified, coordinated, coalition, and hybrid approaches. Furthermore, the report reviews relevant legislation and organizational practices, such as the Equality Act 2010, the Disability Discrimination Act 2005, and the Care Standards Act 2000, explaining how these impact collaborative working. The report also explores how differences in working practices and policies affect collaboration. It assesses the potential outcomes of partnership working for service users, professionals, and organizations, while also identifying barriers to effective partnerships. Finally, the report proposes strategies to improve outcomes, such as clear communication and shared goals, concluding with recommendations for fostering successful partnerships in the health and social care sector. The Mid Staffordshire NHS trust is used as a case study.

Working in Partnership
in Health and Social Care

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
1.1 Explain the philosophy of working in partnership in health and social care........................3
1.2 Evaluate partnership relationships within health and social care services............................4
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................5
2.1 Analyse models of partnership working across the health and social care sector................5
2.2 Review current legislation and organisational practices and policies...................................6
2.3 Explain how differences in working practices and policies affect collaborative working. . .7
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................8
3.1 Evaluate possible outcomes of partnership working for users of services, professionals and
organisations...............................................................................................................................8
3.2 Analyse the potential barriers to partnership working in health and social care services.....9
3.3 Devise strategies to improve outcomes for partnership working in health and social care
services......................................................................................................................................10
CONCLUSION ............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
This will understand as to test learners and their importance of work positively in
partnership with other in a sector of social and health. For empowering social and health care
sectors means to authorize and enable to staff. It is important that partners philosophies and
methods to prompts partnership in a long term's. In this case is discussing about the organisation
partnership role that influence the variable techniques (Glasby and Dickinson, 2014). The
effective Moreover, findings different strategies to improve outcomes for partnership. From this
case organisation taken is Mid Staffordshire NHS trust.
TASK 1
1.1 Explain the philosophy of working in partnership in health and social care.
Different types of philosophies is implements in various ways. It is depended on the
partnership between organisation in health and social care sectors. Various philosophy includes
power sharing, interdependence, empowering the partner organisation, making of informed
decision, autonomy and respect. In this type of partnership have different philosophy that are
follows :
 First philosophy- Organisation includes empowering to each other that help to ordinates
of activities. Its impacts is to motivate and increases the ability of the partner's
organisation to achieve the target goals and objectives. This technique also handles the
strong bond between the partnership.
 Second philosophy- this will be development for the organisation partnership working
social and health care services. It depends on the on each other social, economic and
financial support. This partnership supports helps to each other in difficult situations. Its
depend on how other parter will help organisation effectively. This will usually help that
the interdependency between the partnering organisation to coordinates their activity and
resources (ullivan and Skelcher, 2017). When partnership is becoming helping to each
other than this will be able to independent in social and health care sectors.
 Third philosophy- Different types of collaboration helps to sustain organisation
partnership in the level of interdependence limitations. Independent organisation will
stand for its own prospects and irrespective of partnership working. Organisation works
influence its partner for positively or negatively. Its depend on the working that one

organisation is to helps uncertain helps for another company. Sustain these problems is
had to better results is that to collaboration with area that helps partnership services.
For Example- Rehabilitation provide their services for drug addicts. If they collaborate with an
association of psychologists, rehabilitation services improves their services and gives more
facility for drug addicts.
 Fourth philosophy- Organisation collaborate with another company, with this help
different duty and roles distribute by each other organisation. This will help to confirmed
between both have to understand there roles and responsibility (Glasby, 2017).
Partnership mutual respect between collaborate organisation in health and social care
sector.
For example – If organisation partnership have mutual understanding for responsibility,
collaborate helps to distribute their roles like health care services responsible for one
organisation and another will be takes social care like financial; and educational services to
provided their customer.
1.2 Evaluate partnership relationships within health and social care services
Partnership in health and social care is better to understand doctor and patient.
Organisation partnership industry players in health and social care sectors have not being strong.
Most of older people have not been able to takes advantage in social care and health care
services (Dickinson and O'Flynn, 2016). Also, person with have disabilities and mental problems
will be discriminated by social services. Such person have not been able to take decision their
health and different types of treatment. It depends partnership relationship between providers of
health and social care services and other professionals.
For sustaining relationship between the partnership that help to develop the organisation
is effective ways. Also, health and social care services collaborates with government and private
company for charity to development of organisation and expanding their services. Social care
and health care related organisation focused on the potential benefits. Also, the focus in effective
services that they prove rather than reaped benefits from working. Supports of workers in
organisation is also cared about their employees in organisation. In a partnership support workers
perform their services users and help them in maintain their status in organisation. The
management focus on the available work as well certain tips need to be managed to focused on
more knowledge about social and health care. They will force sharing works practice and better

networking potential for joint venture and team working. Partnership relationship make both
individual authority to overcome the failure situation and make strategies to removes obstetrical.
Interference of government is the main problems in these partnerships. Organisation makes sure
that they have proper authorization detail about their trust and foundation so in future
organisation not faced by government interference on their services.
For the evaluation of partnership relationship in health and social care it is very important
to understand following aspects carefully:
 Leadership and Vision: It is very crucial for both, health and social care and their
partner to have a focused and common goal or vision to achieve in the future. Both
partners should share an attainable vision for the organization. This will help in making
effective decisions for the firm.
 Strategy and Development: Partnership relationship with social and health care should
be consist of various processes, policies, targets, etc. which can be very useful for them in
the improvement of their overall performances. The strategies should be developed by
evaluating the local needs.
 Evaluation and review: This process plays an important role in increasing the
performances of health and social care centres. Measuring the partnership quality
increases the improvement opportunities of partnership. It helps in identifying that the
particular partnership helps in making a good and effective impact on the society in order
to increase the effectiveness of it.
It is very crucial to for the health and care centres to effectively evaluate the performance
of partnership with them, as it can affect them a lot. The assessment of the partnership helps to
monitor and evaluate the progress internally and externally.
TASK 2
2.1 Analyse models of partnership working across the health and social care sector
Partnership models refers that any individual who work with families and the
communities in health and safety care. Different identities make disarrangement between two
parties. They follow this models to work with each other by defining the role and responsibilities
To resolve this problem there are four models for partnership in health and social care services.

 Unified model- This model includes different practises where management of staff
employees and training of their employees is undertaken by the organization (Dahlgren
and Whitehead, 2018). The main objective behind this model is to help the needy people
by providing them services according to their requirements. The primary benefits of this
model includes, all the health and care activities, follows only one strategic approach
which helps to have a well-defined goal and objective.
 Coordinated model – This model includes corporate where unit are liable for function.
In addition, it is associated with management with different skills. It involves a patient
seeking care for disease and receiving a series of medical and hospital services. It helps to
provided self-management for people with chronic disease and prevention.
 Coalition model- In this coalition model, it helps the health and social care centres to
have different activities that are associated with each other but they work separately and
individually. For example, all the staff members, management team, trainee, etc. all are
associated to each other with the help of the federation but works individually.
Importance of this model for the organization can include, all the activities and services
cooperate in the joint actions.
 Hybrid model- This is the mixture or hybrid of two models, that is, unified and coalition
model respectively. It helps in decision making and reduces the health issues and plays an
important role for the health and social care centres (Ocloo and Matthews, 2016).
2.2 Review current legislation and organisational practices and policies
Legislation is a procedure that transmitted by governing body or the process.
Organisation policies is had authority to specifying sets a corporatisation views with respects to a
given situation. It is process of set objective with different policies and gives a definite direction
to a company. This types of policies and precesses can affect the laws in the legislation to
improves the effective organisation. Also, it will development of different laws to stops the
uncertainty effects on the organisation. These policies make organisation in stables and
implements an organisation policy and its includes legal activities that organisation is
implements. The current procedures mentioned in laws enforces care centres to follow in their
practises with this are able to provide effective and proper health care to people. It also helps in
improving the quality of services that leads to providing better social environment.

There are various legislation and organisation policies and practices that impacts on
different legislation on health and social care partnership. Also, there are different acts are as
follows:
 Equality Act 2010: This act helps in preventing the discrimination of the patients in
health and social care centres. This act is provides equality in public and private sector
(Doel and Shardlow, 2017). They are discriminated on the following factors, for example,
caste, religious, complex, creed or race etc. which should be avoided by the organization
in order to work effectively. The Equality Act 2010 prohibits not only direct
discrimination but also indirect discrimination, harassment or victimisation.
 The Disability Discrimination Act 2005 (DDA): This act helps in providing support to
people who are disabled which can be physical, mental, etc. Also, this will include the
unlawful discrimination against the disabled person with respect to employment,
provision of good and diverse. According to this act, this is legally not correct to treat
such people less favourably as compared to others. This has to be maintained by the
organization to check whether they are working accordingly or not.
 Care Standards Act 2000 (CSA): This act helps in providing administration of a variety
of care institutions which can includes, children's homes, independent hospitals, nursing
homes and residential care homes. This is depended on the care where the purpose will be
extend the governance the organisation. This act will help care homes to work effectively
and successfully manage their work in health and social care centres.
2.3 Explain how differences in working practices and policies affect collaborative working
Collaborative working is a process in which two or more companies or organisation are
working together for a specific goals and objectives understand to works perfectly and
effectively. This will help to identifying the practices and policies to makes the organisation
effectiveness. This will help to inform organisation for effective use of legislation in the
origination. Working policies like labour time, wages, working per hours, etc. should be
managed by them. Most health and social care services find themselves working with partners
whose’ working practices and Policies differs. These differences in working practices and
policies are issues of concern as it affects the entire collaborative working and in most cases in
negative ways. When the working practices of partners differs, disagreement can arise on how
best to achieve the common goals. To overcome from such issues, it is very important for health

and social care centres to work with parters who have similar thoughts in working practices and
policies.
It is very important for any organization to have mutual understanding in working
practices which can help them in collaborative working. Partnership works better when the
partners has some similarity in their working practices and policies that are applied in the
organization (Burwell, 2015). Effective working practices and policies can help employees to
achieve their targets easily and rise their outcome sharply. These policies and practises, focuses
on working as a team which includes various factors, such as, respect, trust, mutual working,
team work and focused works (Cameron, Lart and Coomber, 2014). It depends on the
organisation to improves it effectively in order to work properly. This will help to developed
good policies and practices which can improve their working pattern. This is what has happened
with Adult A in the given case study. The partners that were supposed to work together for
adult’s protection which include the local authority, the policies and health and social care
services all had different working practices. This has huge impact on Adult A which results in
his death.
TASK 3
3.1 Evaluate possible outcomes of partnership working for users of services, professionals and
organisations
Partnership workings have wide ranges of outcomes within health and social care setting.
It is very crucial for the organization to have effective partners which can help them in
improving their overall performances. This process assists in bringing together different skills
and knowledge which complement one another in service delivery process for the health and
social care services. Another important positive outcome of partnership working between patient
and professional is that patients’ needs are put at the centre of services delivery.
 Possible outcomes of partnership working for users of services: There are both
negative and positive outcomes of partnership working, such as, it helps in making
improvements in their services as compared to previously. Partnership working also helps
in improving their decision making process more effective. Apart from this, there can be
negative impact as well which can arise, for example, there are chances of conflicts

between partners (Glasby and Dickinson, 2014). Lack of mutual understanding is another
factors.
 Possible outcomes of partnership working for users of professionals: It also includes
positive and negative outcomes. In positive, it can include factors like, partnership
working for professional creates the professional approach that includes the perfect
outcomes. All the roles and responsibilities of all the employees are clear and specific.
This also helps in making effective communication which can help in the improved
services of the organization (Sullivan, and Skelcher, 2017). In negative outcome it
includes factors like, there may be chances of the miscommunication that can arise due to
their rivalry. There can be a chance of mismanagement in the organization which can
affect their function a lot.
 Possible outcomes of partnership working for users of organization: Positive impact
of partnership working includes, it helps in providing comprehensive service provision. It
will also be very useful in having new and innovative ideas for the organization which
can help in the enhancement of their overall services. In negative outcome it can include,
it can create communication gap. This will help to developed the organisation in effective
ways for practises in the different levels.
3.2 Analyse the potential barriers to partnership working in health and social care services.
Potential barrier is to works on health and social care is closely interwound. It includes
different practises and policies is organised by health care and social care organisation. This will
depend on the organisation with effective manner to introduction for the effective in selective
barriers. Communication barriers makes gaps may also raise barriers on the way to effective
partnership. The dependency for its organisation effectiveness can the organisation different
policies and practice. It makes the organisation in effective ways to operates the organisation to
controlled over the effective ways for the organisation. This will be development for the
effective barriers to influence the nature for effective controlled. These barriers can makes the
organisation for corrective manner (Glasby, 2017). Health and social organisation focused on the
different element to proves their services in vital role.
At the same time barriers may rise in the result of certain overlapping of function. This
will except the organisation effectiveness to takes as the advantages in the organisation. It will
develop the effectiveness for current situation to operates the controllable units in the

organisation. It depends on the organisation to evaluates the corrective decision to takes in the
situation in the market segment. Heath care and social care organisation should eliminates the
difference in their practise and policies. It may involves the development of common stander and
reorganised the structure, distribute function effectively and provided clients with health and
social care services of the high quality. This will depend on the area that they take in the
different levels of to participate in they organisation to takes as the advantage in the organisation.
This will depend on the selective environmental effect to corrective decision making.
3.3 Devise strategies to improve outcomes for partnership working in health and social care
services
Organisation partnership is to concerned by developing for implements different
strategies (Ocloo and Matthews, 2016) Some strategies is to developed by the organisation to
adequate recognition and resources of all the organisation and maximum utilisation of strengths
in a partnership working. Uses of proper resources can affects the organisation effectiveness, it
takes differentiate the organisation effectively used to take the organisation corrective manner.
Partnership organisation is focused on the highly capable of meeting the targets goals as well as
also develop appropriate strategies that aim at improving mutual understanding between the
organisation. It will depend on the market risk to development to corrective decision on to
priority bases and effective communication to different noticed. It depends on the market
condition to improves the quality for appropriate the different ways for the organisation
structure. This will help for the correction in the market segment to approve the organisation for
implementing different policies and it will make the organisation structure to evaluates the
corrective organisation to implements for services provider.
Provided heath and social care services simplest the organisation to chive their goals and
development for the effective organisation to implements the PowerPoint of effective
organisation selective it is corrected that the organisation created for different accusative process.
It depends on the different authentication to approves in the organisation. It depends on the
organisation. It depends on the market condition to development to creates the organisation for
effective suggestions. For perfection on the market condition is heps to developed in the
organisation details. It will development to authorised in the organisation to development for
effective communication (Doel and Shardlow, 2017). This will development to creates the
organisation for effective ways for different decision making. Also, it takes for the correcting

situation for services provider. Different organisation is provider of different statics in the
organisation. This will expand on the organisation plan and roles that they distribute their
different segment in the organisation. Well behaved organisation implements to takes as the
variable levels to selective organisation effectiveness.
When it comes to the health and social care services, it is the responsibility of the
organisations to make sure that not only the patients but also the staff is empowered to make the
quick decisions if necessary and no one else is there to help them. There are various strategies
which can be used by the organization for the improvement of all the outcomes of partnership
working with health and social care services. These can include, improvement in
communication, developing a framework, etc. For such organization, communication is most
important for effective partnership. Without this it is impossible to deliver thoughts to each other.
This is what happened in with Adult A in the given case. There was a misunderstanding
between all the people who are linked with this case, such as, police officials, local authorities,
health and social care services, etc. This is the much needed quality which is required in the
protection of Adult A which was missing. Therefore, improvement of communication process
between partners can help in establishing partnership working relationship. Another factor which
can help in the improvement is the resources that are well shared by the partners in an
organization. For example, in the given case study, there are chances to get better outcome if
police, local authority and the health and social care shared their resources when caring for Adult
A. By establishing an effective framework can help these organizations to improve their services.
CONCLUSION
From this report it is concluded that partnership organisation have important role in
health care and social care implements. This will be depended on the various collaborate that
partnership organisation it to redirected them. Also, it is concluded that organisation where the
partnership have takes different strategies to correcting from of variable techniques. Result is that
partnership becomes easy ways in social care and health care for the users. There are four
models for partnership in health and social care services. It will be depended on the various
collaborate organisation to developed for concluding the organisation. This will be depended on
restrictive from. There are various legislation and organisation policies and practices that
impacts on health care.

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