Partnership Working in Health and Social Care: Models and Legislation

This report examines partnership working in health and social care organizations. It begins by outlining different partnership models, including unified, coalition, and hybrid models, explaining their structures and objectives in delivering services to clients. The report then delves into current legislation and policies, focusing on the Mental Capacity Act 2005, the Children Act 1989, the Disability Discrimination Act 2005, and the Care Standards Act 2000, detailing their importance in protecting patients and employees. Furthermore, the report addresses issues and barriers that can affect collaborative working, such as differences in departmental goals and cultural diversification, highlighting the need for common goals and mutual respect to ensure effective teamwork. The report concludes by emphasizing the significance of organizational practices and policies in fostering a collaborative environment within the health and social care sector.

Different models of partnership in
health and social care sector
Model of partnership is essential in
identifying structure of the business in order to
work in appropriate manner to provide services
to clients suffering from problems. Different
models of partnership in social and health care
sector are given below.
Unified model: It is incorporated model which
includes systematic hierarchy of management in
order to select capable employees and provide
them right guidance and training. Main objective
of this model is to distribute services between
needy. It encourages resident to follow single
and unique system for rendering valuable
services. It considers all the health care services
like providing proper meal and giving them
correct medicine dosage in prescribed time by
professionals. It follows unified techniques to
achieve the desired goals and objectives within
limited time frame.
Coalition model: It is an approach where all
activities with single nature are grouped under
one specific head or department. Management
motivate teams to coordinate their efforts in a
common direction to provide quality services to
clients. All activities related to serving
employees like providing medicine and taking
care of cleanliness they work collectively as to
accomplish a mutual objective of profits.
Division perform all their individual work
assigned to them and effective communication is
essential in creating collaborative working
environment.
Hybrid model: this technique is refereed when
organisation combine two or more model in
order to provide valuable services to clients. For
example social and care sector can combine
above mentioned two techniques to solve the
problem of patient suffering from disabilities and
other health issues. Brathay residential can use
combination of above two mentioned in order to
restructure organisation and create positive
environment
Current legislation and practices and policies for
partnership working in health and social care
There are various legislation in health and
social care sector which are designed to protect the
patients suffering from health issues and
employees that are working in business. It is
important for organisation to follow all rules and
regulation prescribed by government in order to
maintain stability and render valuable services.
Current legislation and policy which are adopted
by partnership working in health & social care are
described as follows:
Mental capacity Act 2005: Main emphasis
of this act in on the people those who are not
mentally stable and cannot make their own
decisions. Organisation help mentally disabled
people to identify their own choices to enhance
their living standard. In addition to this, the act
defines that individual has right of deciding their
lifestyles so that they can stay happy and satisfied.
Professional team evaluate activities of individual
before admitting them to mental hospitals because
this decision will have effect on their life. Care
taker of mentally disabled people are required to
work in desired manner in order to increase quality
of their services.
Children Act 1989: Main intention of this
act is providing special care to disabled children so
that they can stay optimistic towards their life.
Organisation fulfil all requirement of child, so that
they can have bright future and become good
citizen. Care taker of the patients assure that their
all needs and desires are satisfied. Objective of this
act is to make children's life healthy and
flourishing. In addition to this, they aim at
minimising the risk factors towards patient and
provide them with safety measures so that they can
contribute towards development of personal goals.
Disability discrimination Act 2005: This act was
enacted to reduce unfair practices which were
happening with disabled people. In addition to this
it aims at providing necessities to the patient who
has physical or mental disability. Moreover, it
emphasis on long term goals which include
encouraging them to perform day to day activities.
Care standard Act 2000: This Act ensure
that health and care institution provide proper care
to the clients suffering from various issues. In
addition to this, it provides accommodation and
basic requirements to patients in order to show
their concern towards them.
Organisational practices and policies
at workplace
It is responsibility of business to
create healthy and safe environment
for professionals and clients that are
related to health care and social
services. Implementation of above
mentioned policy and regulation are
essential for partnership in health
care sector. Organisational practices
assure collaborative working of
employees in order to achieve the
common goals and objectives.
Differences in working practices and policies
affect collaborative working
There are various issues and barriers
which demotivate the collaborative
working environment at workplace some
of them are as follows :
Differences in department goals : in order
to work together it is significant to have
common goals. Department aim at their
individual goals this is the main reason
behind differences which affect the
collaborative working of the employees in
common direction. It is essential to have
respect for each other aims and decide
mutually about the ways of achieving it. To
achieve the desired objectives, it is
essential that all groups work together.
Policy help in establishing unified way of
collaborative working and minimise
chances of conflicts arising in health care
sector.
Cultural diversification : people having
different background work together to
achieve the objectives of business. They
have different thoughts and opinions, it is
necessary to motivate them to provide
quality service which is main aim of health
and care services.
Working in Partnership in Health and social care organisation