HSC Partnership: Philosophies, Department Relations, Positive Impact

This report provides an overview of partnership working in Health and Social Care (HSC), focusing on key philosophies such as patient autonomy, empowerment, respect, independence, power sharing, and informed choice. It evaluates partnership relationships within different departments, including relationships with colleagues, organizations, and social workers, highlighting both positive and negative aspects. The report emphasizes the importance of maintaining good relationships and addressing potential issues like poor communication and inter-team conflict to improve service quality and mitigate risks. The analysis draws upon various sources to provide a comprehensive understanding of effective partnership strategies in the HSC sector.

Task 1
Working in Partnership in HSC

Philosophies of working in partnership in
health and social care
There are different types of philosophies used in partnership
working in health and social care. Here, the following
philosophies will be communicated to the staff, partnerships
and social care organizations-
Patients' autonomy- Autonomy must be ensured in
partnership working under which self interest is focused. Here,
doctors, therapists and nurses get freedom to work in
accordance with the help of internet and experience. However
their judgment enables them to change internal work
environment.

Continued
 Empowerment- Empowerment is imperative aspect for
social care setting. Under this, management of health and
social care allocate resources and authorities among
responsible candidates. It proves to be effective in resolving
issues faced by workforce at the workplace. Thus, in order
to resolve the same thing, management share power among
those who lack the same. Empowerment is also effective
way to improve relationship among partners which enables
them to achieve specified results on the right time.

Continued
 Respect-Under this, patients are given respect by providing
them freedom to discuss their issues and problems. At this
juncture, they are rendered good and safe environment.
Furthermore, they must be provided with detail information
related to medication and their treatment which makes them
happy.
 Independence-This is another philosophy of work under
which health and social care focuses on independent views
of employees related to their personal aspect. The degree of
control is set relatively low which help to put workforce into
action with positivity.

Continued
Power sharing- Collaborative partnership works on the
basis of common understanding of social care
organizations to share power. Here, management
negotiate with the corporations to handle
responsibilities and roles.

Continued
 Informed choice-This is another important philosophy of
working in partnership where social care setting ensure that
all information are easily accessible to users. Along with
that, partners get necessary information easily so as to take
decision. It proves to be effective in understanding ethical
dilemmas which might take place in some certain
circumstances.

Evaluating partnership relationship within
different departments in HSC
Partnership organization is the imperative aspect to improve
service quality which consists of different departments like
organizations, colleagues and social workers. Accordingly,
relationship with different department has been explained as
follows-

Continued
 Relationship with colleagues or organizations-Under this,
social care corporation is required to maintain good
relationship with their colleagues as well as organizations.
For example, institutions, group of experts and diagnostic
centers work together and here it is important for the
company to work with integrity for delivering good quality
of services to large number of buyers. Furthermore, roles
and responsibilities of all employees are described
effectively so that conflicts cannot take place among them.

Continued
 Relationship with social workers- Social workers
possess in-depth information related to health issues
taking place in society because they play active role in
providing detail for the same. Owing to this, social care
corporations develop good relationship with them to
deliver right kind of services to the end users. It is a
well known fact that social care serve as the mediator
between service providers and users. At this juncture,
social workers also support care settings to improve
service quality and keep pace with them.

Positivive relationship
However, the following table is showing the positive and
negative aspect of working in partnership. Accordingly,
negative aspects will be taken serious to improve
relationship among organizations and all related parties
of partnership. For example, team work is promoted
effectively so that employees do not face the situation of
conflicts and provide non-stop services to users.
Working in partnership facilitates to mitigate risk to a great
extent.
It is also effective in reducing cost by providing support
related to physical resources like upgraded technologies.

Continued
 Partnership organizations tend to have number of competent
workforce at one place which leads to cater need of number
of buyers.

Negative Relationsip
 Risk might be increased because of poor communication
among corporations.
 This might create chaos at some time that affect
performance of nursing staff.
 Inter-team conflict can create issue while delivering
services.

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