Analysis of Partnership Models in Health and Social Care - Unit 5

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of partnership working within the health and social care sectors. It begins by highlighting the importance of effective partnerships and outlines various strategies to improve collaboration, such as identifying bespoke solutions, focusing on outcomes, clarifying responsibilities, and structuring the system. The report then delves into different partnership models, including networking, referral systems, consortium, and multi-agency working models, emphasizing the most suitable approaches. It also examines current legislation, policies, and organizational practices, such as the Equality Act 2010, Care Standard Act 2000, and the Care Act 2014. The report further discusses how differences in working practices and policies can impact teamwork. Finally, it identifies potential barriers to partnership working, including conflicting priorities and funding issues, while also outlining the possible outcomes of effective partnerships for service users, professionals, and organizations, such as improved customer satisfaction and increased revenue generation.

UNIT 5 - WORKING IN
PARTNERSHIP

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................1
3.3 Strategies to improve the partnership working in health and social care.........................1
2.1 Different models of partnership and highlighting the suitable model..............................2
2.2 Current legislation, policies and organisations practices adopted when working in
partnership..............................................................................................................................3
2.3 The way differences in working practices and policies that affect team work in health and
social care...............................................................................................................................4
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................4
3.2 Potential barriers to partnership working in health and social care services....................4
3.1 Possible outcomes of partnership working for services users, professionals and
organisations...........................................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Partnership plays a crucial and integral part in the execution of various operations. The
effective partnership will support the better handling of the various functions that will help in the
significant rise in the productivity. Various case studies are taken into effective consideration to
gain significant and suitable knowledge about the functionality of company. Various strategies
and models of improving partnership and different legal measures are taken into consideration.
Various practices and policies are discussed here as well. Also, the potential barriers and possible
outcomes of working in partnership are studied in this report (Bryson, 2016).
TASK 2
3.3 Strategies to improve the partnership working in health and social care
Various strategies are taken into effective consideration that supports the significant rise
in the different operations which will help in the better handling of the different operations at
health and social care centre. This aids the good executions of the various actions and activities
in organisation to improve health condition and care processes. Besides this, working in
partnership will also help in the effective execution of the different functions. Some major
strategies that are been taken into effective consideration are:
 Identify the bespoke solution: If organisation or work force is facing some issue,
management has to look after effective management of the various operational solutions
to get a better sustainability (Jagosh and et.al., 2015). This will help in better meeting of
the targeted goals and supports the significant rise in operational capacity of the health
and social care centre.
 Focusing on outcomes: The health and social care system will have to look after better
handling of different operations which will help in effective management of various
functions. The effective setting up of goals or targets will help teams to work in effective
partnership to attain them in an effective and significant manner.
 Clarifying the responsibilities: The health and social care will look after the handling of
the different roles and responsibilities played by work force at health and social care. The
clarification of duties will help in the effective management of the different operations
which will support developing of the better understanding of various partners and their
functionality. This will reduce conflicts and issues caused due to communication gap.
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 Structuring the system: The system will look after the better setting up of structural
system of health and social care which aid in effective execution of various operations
and gain a better productivity and profitability. This will also help in significant handling
of wide variety of functions, which will help in better management of various actions at
health and social care (Glasby and Dickinson, 2014).
This will help CQC to develop a good management of operation and keep a check on
various staff involving CPN, occupational therapist, psychologist sand social workers. That will
also help in suitable rise in compatibility and meeting of targeted goals set in health and social
care.
2.1 Different models of partnership and highlighting the suitable model
Various models are taken into effective consideration to facilitate the effective
partnership in an organisation like health and social care. This will help in better handling of the
different operations which will support the significant rise in functional quality, leading to the
significant rise in the operational capacity of the health and social care. The various models that
will be considered by health and social care settings are:
 Networking model: This is the simplest model of partnership that is followed by a health
and social care organisation. In this model, the partners come together and meet with
each other in regular intervals of time to gain a better productivity and profitability. This
facilitates better decision making process and help in the development of products and
services that will help in effective gaining of the sustainable customer satisfaction level
(Bendell, 2017).
 Referral system: It is the model that helps in inter organisational referral system. It helps
in better information sharing and gaining sustaining customer loyalty by providing high
quality of service. This will also help in gaining good productivity by effectively
managing the various operations. It involves written agreement to carry out various
operations and functions and referring of customers. It is also used to save time and
resources.
 Consortium model: It is set for the mutual beneficial purpose that helps in the better
handling of different operations that will support significant rise in core operational
capacity of firm (Griffith, 2015). It involves various components to get joined to form a
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complex structure that will help in getting sustaining productivity and profitability. The
major purpose of this model is to work together to achieve better goals.
 Multi agency working model: It involves two or more organisations to share resources
to deliver the desired outcomes together. The relationship and operations are carefully
managed to gain success. It leads to the better setting up of goals for partners (Doel and
Shardlow, 2017).
The most suitable system model will help in suitable management of various operations
that will improve the revenue generation of health and social care settings. This will help in
effective growth of company by enabling a good communication process and better management
of different resources.
Besides this, various models are been analysed that will help in suitable handling of the
operations such as:
 Empowerment model: this will help in handling of the proper partnership that will help
in empowering both the partners in the contract to be satisfied and well adorned with the
power to have a good rise in productivity and profitability that will support a good rise in
functional capability of the organisation.
 Model of Collaboration: this will help in suitable gaining of the collaboration between
the approaches that are been followed during the setting up of the partnership that will
support a good communication and will help in meeting the operational and other
requirements of the users and agencies working with firm.
2.2 Current legislation, policies and organisations practices adopted when working in partnership
Different operations and the policies are taken into effective consideration that support
better management of various operations at health and social care. Some major legislations and
organisational practices at health and social care are:
 Equality Act 2010: This leads to effective handling of different functions which will
help in growth of company. It will lead company to practice significant equality at
workplace and take in consideration various measures that helps in good execution of
different functions in a better way (McPhee, 2017).
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 Care standard Act 2000: This legal measure will support maintaining standard of care
services, provided by health and social care setting. It sets effective guidelines for
various nursing homes and care centres to provide high quality health care services and
products to patients or clients that will help in significant rise in revenue generation.
 Children's act 1989: This legal measure is used to provide the effective health and social
care measures that will help in the significant rise meeting their needs and demands, to
provide better and effective health and social care services to the children (Wolfe and
Nix, 2016).
 Disability discrimination act 2005: The DDA will significantly help in the effective
handling of various operations which will improve the operational capacity and
effectiveness of the different measures and prevent any sort of discrimination on the basis
of disability at workplace.
 Care act 2014: this is the legal measure that will help in meeting the proper care
measures that are been followed by the firm and thus improve the eligibility to care ad
care funding in UK, facilitating a good services and working in partnership.
2.3 The way differences in working practices and policies that affect team work in health and
social care
The differences that are been taken into proper consideration by health and social care
will support better management of different operations, which will help in significant increase in
productivity and profitability. The differences in various policies and working practices lead to
dispute among partners at health and social care setting. This has affected operational capacity of
organisation to a great extent, impacting rise in productivity and profitability. This has brought
down standard and quality of services that are provided by health and social care to clients or
patients (Freedman, Cockburn and Simcoe, 2015).
Besides this, ineffective following of various policies and procedures had also led to a
communication gap between various employee's and work departments of the company, reduced
information sharing and getting poor quality of services and care facilities that are been provided
to clients or customers of health and social care. This has also affected the way of thinking of a
nurse in a health and social care setting. This will help staff to get idea of proper and suitable
measure to meet needs and demands of various clients and customers at health and social care. It
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helps them to tackle and manage needs and demands of the different operations of people with
various mental and physical illness (Cohen, 2017).
TASK 3
3.2 Potential barriers to partnership working in health and social care services
There are various barriers and functionality of the different operations, which act as
stoppage for health and social care services. The different priorities that are set by various
officials and employees will lay a negative impact on different operations that will help in
significant rise in productivity and profitability to have a better share of revenue generation.
Also, it impacts the customer's relationship and satisfaction level. For instance, Mrs Mary would
have got the better nursing facilities if the staff of the health and social care would have not setup
the different priorities (Warner and Sullivan, 2017).
The negative attitude of staff laid a significant impact on the effective handling of the
different operations in an organisation. The district services are required to be blamed because of
their poor attitude towards Mrs Mary. Apart from this, the lack of proper communication and the
inefficiency of the nurses to understand the severity of health condition of Mrs Mary by the
social services. Funding is also primary issue that acts as the barrier for better management of
health and social care services (Whitfield, 2015).
The providing of the free services will impact the development of the health and social
care services in a much effective and better way. Mrs. Mary will look after the better handling of
the operations that will help in better allocation of the roles and duties and proper access and
utilization of the provided funding. It will prevent the miscommunication and lack of seriousness
that can impact the overall operations of health and social care.
3.1 Possible outcomes of partnership working for services users, professionals and organisations
The better partnership will support a significant and sustainable way to gain the good
productivity and profitability and will help in the effective rise in satisfaction level of customers
and clients. The better and positive collaboration as well as effective management of the
different functions will help in the better gaining of productivity and profitability in a very
sustainable way. The effective development of different product and services will help in
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increasing revenue generation of health and social care. This leads to the rise in customer
satisfaction level (Gillespie, 2014.).
Even, the user of professionals in health and social care will help in the better rise in
productivity and effective revenue generation of health and social care services. The better
adaptability of innovative measures to develop services will help significant rise in productivity
by giving high quality products or services. It will increase professional approach and knowledge
of work force in health and social care. The better gaining of the professionalism will also help in
increase in work efficiency of work force of the company. This will help in the better handling of
the various needs and demands of clients and customers of the company (Batalden and et.al.,
2015). This will help the organisation to gain customer's trust level and loyalty. Other than this, it
will help in the better adoption of various innovative measures that will lead health and social
care to make better products and services which supports in rising productivity and profitability
of company and generate significant amount of revenue.
Mrs. Mary will look after the better handling of the operations that will help in suitable
rise in the operational capability of the operations and meeting of the targeted goals and
operations. It will reduce the blaming of the individual nurses and will help the health care firm
to improve the quality of health care services by adopting necessary measures and operations.
Besides this, it will help in suitable allocation and fulfilment of roles and responsibilities at
health and social care entity.
CONCLUSION
It can be concluded from the above report that better handling of various operations is
vital for effective running of health and social care services. The various models discussed in
report will help in effective rise in partnership of health and social care services. The different
legal obligations will help in better handling of various measures in a very effective way. Other
than this, the potential barriers of partnership in health and social care services and the possible
outcomes to work on the users of services, professionals and organisation are been discussed in a
very effective and significant manner. The identification of potential barriers will help in
effective supporting of different risk factors and ability to manage them.
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