Analysis of Multi-professional Working in UK Hospitals: Report

This report examines the role of multi-professional working within the UK healthcare system, specifically focusing on Ramsay Health Care. It defines multi-professional team working and its significance in providing high-quality, efficient patient care through collaboration and knowledge sharing among different healthcare professionals. The report highlights the organizational structure of Ramsay Health Care, its service delivery models, and key issues related to service delivery, communication, and organizational structure. It emphasizes the importance of teamwork, effective patient care, and the impact of internal and external factors on healthcare management. The report concludes that multi-professional working is essential for improving patient health and well-being. The report also includes relevant references to support the findings.

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Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Role of multi-professional working in United Kingdom hospital...............................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6
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INTRODUCTION
Healthcare is referred as the improvement on maintenance of health through prevention,
diagnosis and treatment, cure of disease or recovery, injury, illness as well as other mental and
physical impairments in individuals (Hickman, and et. al., 2015). In this report, the selected
organisation is Ramsay Health Care United Kingdom which is a healthcare organisation of UK
founded in year 2007 by Paul Ramsay. This report includes analysis and evaluation of role of
multi professional working in hospital of UK along with an understanding of nature of
organisation formations and services delivery modes within health and social care settings. It
also analyses the key issues about service delivery, organisational structure and communication.
MAIN BODY
Role of multi-professional working in United Kingdom hospital
Multi professional team working is defined as the way care professionals work collectively
in order to support individuals with complex care requirements that have been determined by risk
stratification as well as case finding. In healthcare settings, multi professional teams are
common. These teams are considered to provide high quality and efficient care and also deemed
to allow distinct professionals to mitigate and exchange knowledge and experience. use of multi
professional team in healthcare organisation has become a contemporary organising principle for
provision of healthcare. They are expected to render better care to patients and emphasize on
relationships, partnerships, narratives and dialogues of patients. Multi professional teams
includes different individuals who perform different functions and work collectively in order to
accomplish common goal. These teams enable better execution of services in Ramsay Health
Care United Kingdom. The hospital provides day surgery facilities all across the United
Kingdom and other nations.
The network of hospital in United Kingdom involves 36 private facilities that provides
variety of treatments from knee replacement surgery to hip replacements and weight loss surgery
to cosmetic surgery (Ibrahim and et. al., 2014). It facilitates numerous independent sector
treatment centres for English National Health services. In year 2015, Ramsay Health Care United
Kingdom in partnership with Genesis Care develop new facilities for treatment at Rivers hospital
and Springfield hospital, where the healthcare facilities relocated chemotherapy services to. The
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institution was the first hospital group in year 2018 to launch speak up for safety which is a staff
accountability program in order to strengthen its reporting culture and assist to safeguard
patients. The staff members of the hospital engaged in multi professional working which place
very crucial role in providing services to the patient in an effective manner. It is about
administering seamless response to people with complex and multiple needs. Multi professional
working in Ramsay Health Care United Kingdom enable it to accomplish effective patient care
by teamwork and collaboration within certain teams of healthcare to render shared and focused
learning which helps in improving outcomes of needs of patients. It helps professional in
developing consensus, strengthen the partnership with patients, breakdown professional
boundaries and providing effective care to the patients (Rathinam and et. al., 2014).
The nature of healthcare organisation needs that managers render leadership and
coordination and supervision of employees. For performing various tasks in taking decisions in
context of care, managers need to consider two domains, i.e., internal and external domain. The
external domain includes activities, resources and influences that exist extrinsic to the boundary
of hospital, but impacts it’s working. It includes factors like population characteristics,
community needs, Medicare etc. Internal domain includes the areas that manager required to
address on day to day basis including ensuring that adequate type and number of staff available,
quality of care, financial performance etc. In healthcare system of Ramsay Health Care hospital,
service delivery is a part where the treatment and supplies are received by patients for which they
are entitled to. The services provided by hospital occurs across 2 health settings: hospital based
care and community based care.
The mode in which services delivered by hospital is face to face. Person centred care
services are provided by the hospital in which the care is provided to patient as per their needs.
The healthcare professionals in hospital ensure that all the patients get high quality care services
which helps in their fast recovery (Shaw, and et. al., 2014). The key issues related to service
delivery communication and organizational structure includes delivery system transformation,
customer experience, holistic individual health, access to care, doctor and patient confidentiality
etc. All these issues require to be considered by the health care professionals so as to ensure
provision of high quality care services to patients.
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CONCLUSION
As per the above mentioned report, it has been concluded that multi professional working is
very effective in providing care services to patients. This helps in ensuring that patients are
getting high quality care services that help in improving their health and physical wellbeing.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Hickman, L.D., and et. al., 2015. Multidisciplinary team interventions to optimise health
outcomes for older people in acute care settings: a systematic review. Archives of
gerontology and geriatrics, 61(3), pp.322-329.
Ibrahim, M.S., and et. al., 2014. A multidisciplinary team approach to two-stage revision for the
infected hip replacement: a minimum five-year follow-up study. The bone & joint
journal, 96(10), pp.1312-1318.
Rathinam, S. and et. al., 2014. The role of the emphysema multidisciplinary team in a successful
lung volume reduction surgery programme. European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic
Surgery, 46(6), pp.1021-1026.
Shaw, D.J., and et. al., 2014. Multidisciplinary team training to enhance family communication
in the ICU. Critical care medicine, 42(2), pp.265-271.
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