Evaluating Partnership Working in Health and Social Care Services

This report examines partnership working within health and social care organizations, focusing on service provision and collaborative environments. It explores partnership philosophies such as empowerment, independence, autonomy, power, and respect, evaluating their impact on service users and professionals. The report analyzes various partnership models, including formal and informal arrangements, unified models, coordinated models, and coalition models, while also reviewing relevant legislation like the Mental Capacity Act and the Equality Act. It further describes the effects of policy differences in collaborative working, identifying potential barriers and devising strategies to enhance outcomes for all stakeholders. The report provides a comprehensive analysis of the challenges and benefits of partnership working, aiming to improve service delivery and promote effective collaboration within the health and social care sector.

WORKING
IN PARTNERSHIP
IN HEALTH AND
SOCIAL CARE

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
1.1 Partnership philosophy in health and social working.......................................................1
1.2 Evaluating the relationships among the partnership working under health and social care
services...................................................................................................................................2
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................3
2.1 Analysing the models of partnership working in the health and social care sector.........3
2.2 Review of the current legislation and organisational practices and policies for partnership
functioning in the health and social care................................................................................4
2.3 Description of the affects of differences in practices and polices in collaborative working.
................................................................................................................................................5
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................6
3.1 Evaluating outcomes of the partnership for the users, professionals and organisations.. 6
3.2 Analysing the potential barriers to partnership working in health and social care..........7
3.3 Devising the strategies to improve outcomes for the partnership working in health and
social care services.................................................................................................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
References......................................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
In this project report the working of the partnership in the health and social care
organisation in the process for providing then different service into the organisation(Glasby and
Dickinson, 2014). To providing the different types of the services to the services user to indirect
users. In this project report to expend the different types of the aspects of the partnership to
working into the healthful environments. This will including to the how the partnership
philosophy to benefits the cost of the partnership working. Health and social care professionally
need to understanding the way of working into the organisation to promoting the effective
services provision. They awe a particulate roles and responsibilities to related the other with into
the sectors . A partnership firm they will examine the with user of the services that em power of
individual inform to regarding to the particular decision making the encourages of the
independences .into the report to analysis the investigate the organisation to examine the
different way of the strategies working level to proving. The partnership theory study the range
of the researching to find out the related to the partnership philosophies to providing the joint
working practices. The method of positive partnership working into the different legislation to
relevant the types of the organisation policy and process . The study of the proving the strategies
to improving the outcome of the partisanship to working for the user services types of different
organisation of the precess. The different in the working of the partnership were the identify the
barriers to collaborate the working into the organisation to providing the services. Those all
methods which can be identify the working of the mention into the user of the services.
TASK 1
1.1 Partnership philosophy in health and social working.
Partnership in health and social is defined as working of two or more to provide services
in the health care and social to provide effective and better service to the user(Frunză, S., 2011).
There are different philosophies that which comes under the partnership in the health and social
entity. The some of the philosophies which include under the partnership industry in health and
social care are empowerment, independence, autonomy, power and respect(Munn-Giddings and
Winter, 2013). These philosophies are described as follows:-
Empowerment:- The empowerment is first identified philosophy which is included under the
partnership working in the health and social care. The empowerment is referred as the work

which allows the user to have the complete control for the services. This will limit the service
user working in the partnership. The two organisation working in the health and social care are
merged to act as partnership firm the one organisation must be provided the authority for the
organisation which they present. The philosophy have helped all the organisation working as the
partnership firm to reduce the dependency of the partners while making the decisions. The two
organisation which are acting as the partners in the health care have authority to make the
decision regarding any change in its organisation(Dickinson and Glasby 2010).
Independence:- The independence philosophy is referred as the reducing the control, threats and
orders which have direct impact on the ones enterprise in the daily working. The independence
help the organisation to take the decision regarding its organisation as per its choice. The
freedom to take decisions and their choices to keep their enterprise working in the independent
way is considered as the level of independence. The independence of the organisation leads to
the independent working of the each organisation as per their choices without depending on the
other partners working in health and social care. In some case the dependency is necessary on the
participants for providing the services. But as per the philosophy the participants of the
partnership in health and social care must be independent in the operation from each other.
Autonomy:- The self governing of the the enterprise by the participants of the partnership is
referred as the Autonomy. Autonomy describes that the participants have freedom to control the
functioning of their organisation by the participants. The participants have complete freedom for
their organisations changes, recruiting employees, to manage promotions and day to day
activities.
Respect:- The appreciation for the better working of the other participants working under the
health social care are termed as philosophy of respect. The participants should given the respects
by the other participant in order to develop the mutual understanding and better relations.
Power:- The philosophy states the two individuals are merging to form partnership so the power
to make the changes and decisions should be shared among the partner to work with better
results(CameronLart, Bostock and Coomber, 2014).
1.2 Evaluating the relationships among the partnership working under health and social care
services.
The one of the main advantage of the partnership organisation in health and social care is
the service which the users achieve from the combined organisation. The combines organisation

which have good understanding among the participants and provide quality service is the
strength for the organisation whereas misunderstandings among the partners of the organisation
leads to decline the quality of the service(Glasby, 2017). There are some social care homes
which have came in front they acts as a partnership organisation and provides the services in
medical and mental care institutes. The most of the elder individuals in the society suffers from
the health and social care issues. The partnership organisations working in medical institute and
mental care institutes will be very helpful for the health development and providing services to
the users as well as save the time. The merging of two organisation to provide service lead to the
complexity. The all the staff and service users are increased. To provide quality service it is
necessary to control the operations of the organisation by the proper administration and good
mutual understanding among the staffs and participants. The management of employees of the
collaborated organisation must be done significantly to eliminate the negative impacts. The
cultural issues can be obstacle for two organisation merged to act as an partnership firm. In the
sense of the cultural barrier it is referred as the all the organisation have there own set of values,
plans and objectives. The differentiation in the plans and objective is the great barrier in the
operation of the partnership organisation.
TASK 2
2.1 Analysing the models of partnership working in the health and social care sector.
In the health and social care services many models of the partnership working are
identified. The formal and informal partnership, multi-agency working, joint funding and
networking are included under the models of the partnership working in the health and social
service. The organisation build by the two or more health and care enterprises to act as a
partnership organisation and provide services commonly with common goals and objectives is
referred as formal partnership organisation. The formal partnership organisation is announced in
the public and it is the signed agreement. In the formal partnership organisation the management
is controlled centrally with the ideas of the participants. The informal partnership organisation is
opposite of the formal organisation(McKeown, Malihi-Shoja and Downe, 2011). The informal
organisation is not done in the form of agreement as well as it is not announced publicly . There
are certain more models of the partnership organisation which are described as follows:-

Unified model of partnership:- These model is a one kind of partnership organisation. When
more than one organisation or the individual forms a single organisation is referred as the unified
model of the partnership organisation. The all the services in relating to the health and social care
will be than provided by new organisation formed. The partners will have the rights and duties
among the new arise organisation(Dickinson and O'Flynn, 2016).
Coordinated model of the partnership:- This model explains the coordination which has to be
followed by all the participants of the organisation in the same service. The structure of the
coordination will be followed by all the partners of the organisation in the same manner as laid
down. In the health and service sector it is necessary for the all the partners to follow the same
coordination plan.
Coalition model of partnership:- In this model of the partnership the two or more individuals
or the organisation agrees to act as the partners and provide health and social care service for the
limited time frame the. The partnership firm is only formed for the specific time period till the
goals and objectives of the organisations is not achieved. Once the goals and objectives gets
achieved the partnership firm gets dissolved.
2.2 Review of the current legislation and organisational practices and policies for partnership
functioning in the health and social care.
There are many of the organisations, individuals and professionals who are providing the
service in the health and social care. With the time many of the changes have take place in the
health and service sector. The suitable example for the health and social care service is alliance
health care. The various kinds of rules and regulations are framed by the government and
authorities in respect to the protecting the rights and duties of the individuals and partners who
are working in the health and social care sector. Some of the laws framed by the government in
order to provide individual a help to get all the health services from the organisations. These
laws are framed as follows.
Mental capacity Act,2005:- The Act was formed to provide the proper service to the Adults who
lacks in making the decisions. The Act was generally formed for the people who are suffering
from the problem of the mental disability(Reeves and et. al., 2011).
Data protection Act, 1985:- The purpose of the act is to protect the data of the individuals in
living in the society. The act helps in the significant processing of the individuals data.

Equality Act, 2010:- The main purpose of the formulation of the act is to modify the complicated
arrays of the rules and regulation. The act helps the individuals from the discrimination in the
society in respect of caste, sex, race and religion(Perkins and et. al., 2010). The act helped all the
individuals to get the services of the health and social care without and kind of discrimination.
The act also helped the individuals to work among the health and social sector without any
discrimination. The act also states the any person with minor or major disability must be
treated as equal to the normal individual's.
2.3 Description of the affects of differences in practices and polices in collaborative working.
The various kinds of the polices and practices are been carried down whenever the new
organisation in formed and act as the partnership enterprise. The collaboration is the working of
the two or more organisation of the health and social sector in combined for the common goals
and objectives. The many difficulties are faced by the collaborated organisation in the health and
service sector. The difficulties can occur within the organisation because of the miss
communication among the partners of the collaborated organisation. The miss communication
will lead to the miss management within the organisation. The miss management have the
negative impact which leads to the waste of time and money. The structure of the organisation
can positively or negatively effect the working of the collaborated organisation. The organisation
structure positively have effect on the good management. The structure of different organisation
varies which may lead to the negative effect on the working of the organisation. The values
belief of the participant are different with the different interest which may harm the working of
the organisation. The working of the collaborated organisation with the same interest and culture
will lead to the positive impact on the organisation. The working of the collaborated organisation
for the common objective and same interest of the partners will help the organisation to achieve
the goals and objectives easily. The information sharing by the participants of the collaborated
organisation also have the negative and positive impact on the working of the collaborated
enterprise. Its has positive impact that the sharing of the information will lead to the emergence
of the new ideas from the each participants which will help to make the good decisions.
Sometimes the sharing of the information can loss the information of the participants. The
financial structure may also lead to the positive or negative impact on the working of the
organisation(Lymbery, 2010). The finance sources of the all the participant varies. The some
participants have strong financial condition and some may lack behind in the terms of finance.

This financial condition may lead to the conflicts among the partners which have negative impact
on the working of the collaborated organisation.
TASK 3
3.1 Evaluating outcomes of the partnership for the users, professionals and organisations.
A wide range of the strengths, weaknesses, benefits and barriers can be determined as an
outcomes of the partnership organisations functioning in the health and social care. The
outcomes can be positive or negative for the service provider and user of the health and social
care organisation(Marmot and et. al., 2012). The main benefits of the working in partnership is
the increased effectiveness and efficiency in the working of the organisation. Efficiency is
measured in the time that how fast the organisation can provide service to the users. The
partnership helps the user to get wide range of service from two or more organisation working as
an partnership firm.
The main possible outcomes of partnership organisation for service users have some positive and
negative point of the organisation. These positive and negative outcomes are as follows.
Positive outcome:-
The partnership helps to render the quality service to the service user as compared to the earlier
provided service individually. The partnership helps in the empowerment of the organisation.
The partnership in the autonomy of the organisation. The partnership helps to make the strong
decision.
Negative outcome:-
The misunderstanding among the partners leads to the dissolution of the partnership. The miss
communication increases in the organisation. The increase in the work load will lead to the
frustration among the employees. Providing the duplicate services increases(Rigby and et. al.
2011). It creates the confusion in the mind of the service users.
The positive and negative outcomes of the functioning of partnership organisation for
professionals are as follows:-
Positive outcomes:-
The functioning of the partnership lead to increase in professionalism. The roles, powers,
authority and responsibility will be clearly mentioned. Proper utilisation of the available

resources with less wastages(Fotaki, 2011). Helps in eliminating the duplication of the services.
Helps in betterment of organised and effective communication.
Negative outcomes:-
The partnership of the professional leads to the conflicts among the professionals. The miss
communicate leads to the rivalry among the professionals. The misuse of the fund of the
organisation could be increased. The negative and positive outcomes of the working in
partnership for the organisation are as follows:-
Positive outcomes:-
The partnership helps the organisation to provide quality service. The objectives and principles
are shared among the participants. Helps to achieve common objective. Helps in effective and
efficient working.
Negative outcomes:-
The shared principles and objectives may be used by the other participant. Leads to the increase
in the cost. Lack of communication effect the functioning of the organisation.
3.2 Analysing the potential barriers to partnership working in health and social care.
There are many barriers for the functioning of the partnership in the health and social.
Some of the barriers to the partnerships are as follows:-
Structural barriers:- The structure is referred as the plans, policies and objectives of the
organisation. The different organisation have different structure. The differentiation in the
structure of the organisation acts and strong barriers for the functioning of the partnership
organisation functioning in health and social care. At the time of establishment of the partnership
organisation difference in structure lead to the obstacles. The all services of the different
organisation is divided among the participants of the partnership, sometimes the participant may
not be ready to take the responsibility for divided task among them(Parrott, 2014). The structural
barrier is directly related to procedural, because barriers in structure effect the procedure of
organisation this effects effectiveness in attaining the goals and objectives of the organisation.
Procedural barriers:- The every organisation have certain procedure to meet the demand of the
services. The procedures to meet the demand within the time frame is framed as per the structure
of the organisation. The different structure of the different organisation lead to changes in the
procedure. These change in procedure makes the things worst in the organisation. These
procedure is the barriers to the organisation which has to be changed as per the situation. The

procedure barrier leads to the miss management in meeting the demands of the service
users(Care Quality Commission, 2010). The structural barriers creates the disturbance in the
procedure of the organisation. This leads to barriers in the procedure of the organisation and
procedural barrier will create financial barrier for organisation in allocation of finance for
operation of organisation.
Financial barriers:- The financial condition of the participants in the partnership organisation
cannot be same for the each. The financial resources of the each participants are different some
may have good own capital and some one have borrowed it from the institutions. The
differentiation in the sources and amount of in hand capital may act as the barrier for the
partnership organisation. The financial barrier is occurred due to the barriers in the procedure of
organisation. The financial barriers also creates in the communication because no use of effective
technology in the communication system within the organisation.
Lack of communication:- The lack in communication among the partners will lead to the
wastage of time and money. The lack in the communication leads to the occurrence of the miss
management in the organisation. The lack of communication is the important term as the barrier
to the partnership organisation. The communication barriers will lead to the professional barriers,
because lack of communication will creates misunderstanding among the professionals and leads
to rivalry among them.
Professional barriers:- All the organisation has its set of the values and beliefs with there plans
and policies. The difference in the values and beliefs and difference in the interest of professional
leads to the barriers for the partnership organisation. The participants of the partnership
organisation must respect the values and beliefs and interest of the professionals no respect on
the following terms by the participant will lead to the obstacle within the partnership
organisation. The professional barrier is also linked directly with the structural and procedure
barriers of the organisation. These barriers leads to restrict the working working of the
professionals in the organisation, which leads to the professional barrier for the organisation.
3.3 Devising the strategies to improve outcomes for the partnership working in health and social
care services.
There are certain barriers and outcomes of the partnership functioning in the health and
social care service. The certain strategies are necessary to be framed by the partnership
organisation to eliminate the negative outcomes(Millar and Hall, 2013). The strategies will help

the organisation to make the negative outcomes of the organisation into positive outcomes. Some
of the strategies to eliminate the negative outcomes are as follows:-
Communication:- The standard communication within the organisation must be framed to
reduce the negative impacts from the partnership organisation. The communication system will
help to eliminate the miss management from the organisation. The proper communication helps
the firm to reduce the wastage of time and money. The organisation must built the formal
communication system which will be helpful in the coordination of the staff within the
organisation. The organisation can adopt the new technologies in respect of communication
system such as online messaging application and intercoms for the better communication within
the organisation. The good communication helps to build the relationships within the
organisation(Marmot and et.al., 2010).
Information sharing:- The knowledge sharing by the participants of the organisation will help
to eliminate the negative impacts from the organisation. The information sharing will help to
make the better decisions regarding the management of the organisation. The more sharing of the
information will helping in getting the correct answers from many of the ideas. The information
sharing will lead to the elimination of the negative impacts.
Division of the work:- The organisation must frame the strategies in respect of the division of
the work. The division of the work will lead decline in the miss management from the
organisation. The division of the work will help the participants to divide the work among the
staff with the proper roles and responsibilities(Bryson, 2016).
Risk assessment:- The organisation should frame the strategies regarding assessment of the
organisations risk. The risk assessment will help the organisation to forecast the risk and make
proper planning in respect to eliminate the risk.
Training:- The organisation must provide the significant and necessary training to its employees
which will help to increase the efficiency and effectiveness in providing the services to the
service user.
CONCLUSION
From this report to final conclusion there are different types of the philosophies for
workings in the social and health care of the organisational. To identify the able to understanding
that partnership working the vase of the theories and principles which help to gain the how to
working the partnership to positive impacts. The benefits of the barriers that could help to the

takes places in the social and health care issue to recovery into the places. The partnership of
working in the social and health care the final analysis the impact of the partnership of the
legations and how the collaborative working to identify the shapes. The outcomes of the
partnership to beneficiaries of the people to working into the places to providing the different
types of the facilities to impact in to the personal life. The legislation to hight impact of the
people to cover into the aspects of the process. The report also concludes that the barriers of the
organisation are directly linked with each other. The single barriers affects the whole working of
the organisation. The certain strategies must be used significantly in order to eliminate these
barriers.

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