HND Health & Social Care: Partnership Philosophies and Evaluation

This report provides an overview of partnership philosophies within the health and social care sector, emphasizing empowerment, independence, autonomy, respect, and power sharing. It evaluates the benefits and drawbacks of partnerships, noting that while they can enhance organizational efficiency, they may also lead to misunderstandings. The report concludes that partnerships ultimately offer service users combined and improved facilities from a single organization, citing references to support its analysis of partnership dynamics and their impact on service delivery.

Working in partnership in
health and social care(Understanding partnership philosophies and relationship in health and social care service)

Table of content
Topic Page number
Introduction 1
Philosophies of partnership 2
Evaluation of partnership 4
References 5

Introduction
 Partnership refers to that process when two or more than two person or
enterprise come together for executing business activities.
All terms and conditions of firm are already defined by all the partners.
Present report is based ion various philosophies of partnership and evaluation
of its activities is also included.

Philosophies of partnership
Partnership in health and social care
can be defined as a process in
which two or more service
providers merge with each other
for providing better and efficient
services to their users.

Cont....
Following are the main philosophies of partnerships
 Empowerment
 Independence
 Autonomy
 Respect
 Power sharing

Evaluation of partnership
 Partnership has many benefits and drawbacks like it expands efficiency of an
organisation and limitation is that it may increase misunderstanding among
people.
 After conducting evaluation of all strengths and weaknesses, it can be
concluded that with the help of partnership, service users get combined and
better facilities from one organisation.

References
Marmot, M and et.al., 2010. The Marmot review: Fair society, healthy lives. The
Strategic Review of Health Inequalities in England Post-2010
Munn-Giddings, C. and Winter, R., 2013.A handbook for action research in health and
social care. Routledge.
Perkins, N., and et.al., 2010. 'What counts is what works'? New Labour and
partnerships in public health. Policy & Politics. 38(1). pp.101-117.

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