Effective Strategies for Partnership Working in Health and Social Care

This report delves into the multifaceted aspects of partnership working within health and social care settings. It explores the strategic approaches necessary to foster effective collaborations between organizations, professionals, and service users. The report highlights the importance of resource management, effective communication, and the establishment of clear procedures and policies to ensure optimal outcomes. It examines the benefits of partnership working, such as improved service user outcomes and professional development, while also addressing potential barriers like miscommunication, duplication of work, and lack of empowerment. Furthermore, the report underscores the significance of teamwork, coordination, and the sharing of knowledge and skills to overcome challenges and achieve desired results in healthcare partnerships. The analysis covers both the positive impacts and the negative consequences of various factors influencing partnership outcomes.

WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE
Health care sector is very important in society as it provide help
to solve various critical diseases of people along with providing
information about effective precautions as well. It involves
different kinds of medical professionals remain involved in
specific medication or treatment procedure in order to make
patient wellbeing. Partnership working for users of services,
professionals and organisations facilitate to gain better
outcomes successfully. However, there are different kinds of
severe disease which are diagnosed in present scenario and
conduction effective treating procedure that include several
complexities. Moreover, the partnerships of different medical
professionals, like nurse, surgical specialist, Anaesthesiologist,
Physician assistant and Medical device company representative
so that complications can be controlled and make patient
disease free in appropriate way.
Service user outcomes – The partnership working is helpful to
conduct any short and long procedure of medication as a team
of expert is included so that they are capable to deal with
possible problems in proper manner. Meanwhile, medical
professional can perform partnership working with relatives or
family members of patient which is mostly beneficial in case of
mental patients. It involves that in surgical process
complication of anaesthesia can be controlled Anaesthesiologist
and other problems are sort out by specialist of surgery which
along with analysing required medical information about
patient through nurse present at the time of operation
accordingly.
Professional outcome – In context of professionals,
partnership working facilitate them to analyse deeper
knowledge about other fields which can be learned from other
team members. For example, they can gain criteria of reducing
complications of anaesthesia by thoroughly observing steps
taken by Anaesthesiologist which helps surgeon to take these
precautions or actions in next surgical process in order to avoid
complications respectively. At the other hand, observed
knowledge can impact negatively if it will have applied in
different medication or kind of anaesthesia so that it may results
into wrong outcomes from efforts of medical professionals.
STRATEGIESOUTCOMES OF PARTNERSHIP WORKING
Partnership working in health care organisations is very effective
approach if it will be executed in appropriate manner which facilitate
to achieve desired outcomes accordingly. It is necessary to establish
better coordination among partners of healthcare because it is
important to perform specific procedure in proper manner through
attaining required outcomes. However, there are various kinds of
problems occurred at the time of working in partnership and several
barriers are analysed while perform together as partners in healthcare
sector. In addition to this, several potential barriers are evaluated which
impacts negatively to partnership working in health and social care.
Some of them are explained further –
Miss- communication between team and other
professionals – The communication is very important because every
information about particular patient should be conveyed to every
medical professional associated with specific case. It is analysed that
there is amiss communication among team members and other
professionals which create problem to conduct appropriate treatment
procedure of an individual and results into inaccurate outcomes
accordingly.
Duplication of work – The duplication of work impacts
negatively on outcomes of partnership working because similar
procedures are carried out by different medical professionals which is
waste of time, cost and resources. However, duplication of medical
records may effect medication of a patient because if two individuals
are suffering from same disease then it is not necessary that their
symptoms are exactly similar. Moreover, it may impact negatively on
health condition of a person which requires other medicines for
removing side effects of previous treatment.
Lack of empowerment and autonomy – This involves the
criteria of providing authority to an individual who instruct whole team
in single direction to gain desired outcomes of specific medication.
However, autonomy involves that proper information should be
providing to patient so that they can select to have medication as per
their own convenience and affordability. In given case, there is a lack
of empowerment and autonomy which is important for working in
partnership make patient disease free.
Organisation outcome – This involve about working in
partnership with different organisation which helps to save
time and provide immediate medication to a person
suffering from critical situation. It involves the condition
when a specific type of medication is not available in
particular healthcare organisation then they can refer
patient to other hospital which are working as their
partners.
There are different types of strategies which are required
to boost up outcomes of partnership working in health and
social care. It involves to ensure optimum utilisation of
resources through proper management by allocating them
as per their field of expertise to achieve better results.
However, it involves to establish effective coordination as
well as cooperation among team members and other
professional to complete procedure of specific medication
properly to make patient healthy. In addition to this, it is
necessary for healthcare organisations to lay down clear
strategies, procedures, policies, related protocols and
sharing information, ideas, knowledge & skills among
people so that their partnership outcomes can be improved
in appropriate way.
POTENTIAL BARRIERS