St. Vincent's Hospital: Partnership Working in Health and Social Care

This report, prepared by a senior health and social care student at St. Vincent's Hospital, examines the crucial role of partnership working in the health and social care sectors. It begins by explaining the philosophy of partnership, emphasizing empowerment, respect, honesty, trust, and impartiality. The report then evaluates partnership relations at service, professional, and organizational levels, highlighting advantages and disadvantages. Different partnership models, relevant legislations, organizational practices, and policies are analyzed. The report further discusses potential outcomes, barriers, and strategies to improve partnership working. The conclusion summarizes the importance of collaboration and the need for healthcare professionals to work together to provide effective patient services. The references include books and journals that support the findings and analyses presented in the report.

Working in Partnership
in Health and Social
Care

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
1 Explanation of philosophy of working in partnership in health and social care......................1
2 Evaluation of partnership relations in health and social care...................................................2
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................3
3 Analysis of different partnership models.................................................................................3
4 Current legislations, organisational practices and policies for partnership working...............4
5 Explanation of differences in working practices and policies.................................................5
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................6
6 Evaluation of possible outcomes of partnership working........................................................6
7 Analysis of potential barriers to partnership working..............................................................7
8 Devise strategies to improve outcomes for partnership working.............................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Working in partnership in health and social care help different organisations to come and
work together to get long term benefits (Glasby and Dickinson, 2014). Main goal of partnership
is to enhance and increase involvement of staff members in operations so that all the executional
activities can be performed effectively. It is focused with the partners who are working for a
common goal and formulate effective strategies in order to attain the same. All the partners work
with mutual understanding which helps to build trust among them (Brennan-Ing and et. al.,
2014). This project report aims at the benefits of partnership in health and social care sectors in
which a senior health and social care student is working in St. Vincent's Hospital.
Various topics are discussed under this assignment that are philosophy of working in
partnership in health and social care, evaluation of partnership relations, model, legislations,
organisational practices and policies of partnership and differences in working practices and
policies affect collaborative working. Evaluation of possible outcomes and potential barriers of
partnership and strategies to improve outcomes are also discussed under this report.
TASK 1
1.1 Explanation of philosophy of working in partnership in health and social care
Partnership refers to that form of working in which two or more partners work together in
order to attain the goals of the firm. It is very important for all the organisations who are working
under health and social care to work in partnership so that all the responsibilities get distributed
in all the partners. This step may help to enhance effectiveness at workplace. There are various
philosophies that are required for all the partners while working in partnership in health and
social care sector (Dickinson and O'Flynn, 2016). All the philosophies are explained below that
are required to be implemented by the senior health and social care student while working in St.
Vincent's Hospital with patients and healthcare professional:
Empowerment: It is very important to empower the patients so that they may feel good
and try to recover faster. It is essential for the senior student to empower them in order to reduce
their worries about their health. Mainly it is suggested to the student to communicate with them
so that they may become more friendly and the stress level of them get reduced.
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Respect: The student should give respect to the patients and professional so that good
relations can be established with both of them. If the student is giving respect to them than it may
result in good and ethical environment for patients.
Honesty: It is very important for the senior health and social care student to work
honestly in St. Vincent's Hospital this may result in enhanced trust of the healthcare professional
of hospital. If the student is not genuine than it is not possible to perform all the liabilities
effectively because in this situation they will not support and cooperate for work (Dickinson and
Sullivan, 2014).
Trust: It is an essential element which should be build by the scholar in order to get
support from the professionals at hospital. It is also suggested to the student to trust patients and
the persons who are working there from a long period this will help to perform all the tasks
effectively at workplace.
Impartiality: The student should behave impartial with each patient this may help them
to interact with staff members easily. If healthcare professionals are behaving partially than it
may result in decreased trust of patients (Wyder and et. al., 2015).
1.2 Evaluation of partnership relations in health and social care
There are various stages of partnership in health and social care organisations such as St.
Vincent's Hospital. The first one is that which is created at the service level in which all the
professional are focused to provide best services to the patients. It helps to build good relations
within the hospital so that service users and healthcare professionals can interact and
communicate effectively. Second stage of partnership in this sector is related to professional
level in which various persons are working together in order to improve the health of patients.
Various healthcare professional are involved in the treatment of patients who are visiting the
hospital continuously to overcome their disease (Padgett, 2016). It is very important for all the
employees of St. Vincent's Hospital to build good relations with their colleagues as well as the
persons who are coming to the hospital. All the patients are required to be treated specifically
and the doctors at St. Vincent's Hospital and the senior student should communicate with them,
provide knowledge of life skills and get information of their psychology to find solutions for
their problems. The third stage of partnership relation is organisational level in which healthcare
professional of different organisations work together to provide best services to the patients
(Picard, 2014).
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All the stages help to build good and effective relations among employees, patients and
other staff members of St. Vincent's Hospital as it all of them help to interact with each other
and establish good and effective working environment. In a good and ethical environment all the
healthcare professional can perform their duties effectively. It also help the patients to
communicate their problems and issues with the employees of the hospital (Garon and et. al.,
2014).
Advantages and disadvantages of partnership relations:
Advantages: Major benefit of such relation is that it can help to communicate easily with
the patients in which they may share their issues. Another advantage of partnership relations is
that, it can help to provide benefits to each partner of the organisation by providing good services
to the patients (Greene, 2017).
Disadvantages: As partnership relations help to establish bond with the patients,
sometimes it may leave negative impact on the patients and doctors as they may behave partial
with other patients with whom they have not interacted effectively. Another disadvantage of such
relations is that there are various patients who require effective medical treatment and they
cannot be healed with communication or personal interaction with professionals (Glasby, 2017).
TASK 2
2.1 Covered in Brochure
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2.3 Covered in Brochure
TASK 3
3.1 Covered in fact sheet
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CONCLUSION
From the above project report it has been analysed that for health and social care sector
partnership working is very important to provide effective services to the patients. Different rules
and regulations are introduced by the government of the country for the organisation who are
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working in health and social care sector. All of them are required to be followed by the firms in
order to enhance their effectiveness in the sector. If the healthcare professionals are not
cooperating with each other than this may result negatively or may harm the organisation as well
as the patients as they may provide wrong or inefficient services to the patients.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals:
Brennan-Ing, M. and et. al., 2014. Social care networks and older LGBT adults: Challenges for
the future. Journal of Homosexuality. 61(1). pp.21-52.
Dickinson, H. and O'Flynn, J., 2016. Evaluating Outcomes in Health and Social Care 2e. Policy
Press.
Dickinson, H. and Sullivan, H., 2014. Towards a general theory of collaborative performance:
The importance of efficacy and agency. Public Administration. 92(1). pp.161-177.
Garon, S. and et. al., 2014. Collaborative partnership in age-friendly cities: Two case studies
from Quebec, Canada. Journal of aging & social policy. 26(1-2). pp.73-87.
Glasby, J. and Dickinson, H., 2014. Partnership working in health and social care: what is
integrated care and how can we deliver it?. Policy Press.
Glasby, J., 2017. Understanding health and social care. Policy Press.
Greene, R. R., 2017. Human Behavior Theory and Professional Social Work Practice. In Human
Behavior Theory and Social Work Practice (pp. 31-62). Routledge.
Padgett, D. K., 2016. Qualitative methods in social work research (Vol. 36). Sage Publications.
Picard, R. G., 2014. Twilight or new dawn of journalism? Evidence from the changing news
ecosystem. Journalism Practice. 8(5). pp.488-498.
Wyder, M. and et. al., 2015. Therapeutic relationships and involuntary treatment orders: Service
users' interactions with health‐care professionals on the ward. International journal of
mental health nursing. 24(2). pp.181-189.
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