Social and Health Care: Examining Partnership Philosophies

This report provides a comprehensive overview of partnership philosophies within the social and health care sectors. It explores key concepts such as empowerment, independence, respect, making informed choices, autonomy, and power sharing, highlighting their significance in fostering effective collaborations. The report delves into the benefits of such partnerships, including improved service delivery, efficient handling of social exclusion, and reduced duplication of efforts. It also examines the relationship between partnership philosophies and the quality of patient care, particularly for vulnerable populations. Furthermore, the report discusses the merits and demerits of these partnerships, along with potential barriers to their implementation. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of these philosophies in enhancing the overall quality of care and facilitating better outcomes for patients. This document is available on Desklib, a platform providing students with access to past papers and assignments for study and research.

Partnership philosophies
Social and Health care

Introduction:
The partnership is known as the commitment that is shared
between all the partners, where the partners also have an
obligation and right to participate and are equally affected by the
disadvantages and the benefits that result as of the partnership
(Petch, Cook and Miller, 2013).
The defining attributes related to the partnership in
accountability are the confidence, trust, joint working, specialist
expertise, professional boundaries blurring and the teamwork.
Partnership results into the various benefits, which are the
efficiently handling of the social exclusion, provision of the
services from the various organization will not be in repetition,
agencies activities will be less diluted and also the possibility of
the services producing agencies counter productive will also be
reduced (Larkin, Richardson and Tabreman, 2011).

Partnership Philosophies
Partnership with the organization of the social
and health care is the process where the
number of the service organizations gets
merged with the objective of servicing the
indirect and direct users with the better
services (Petch, Cook and Miller, 2013).
The better working partnership ensures that
the individuals and the organization working in
the centres of the social and health care share
the common goal and approach the goal with
the equal determination and responsibility

Partnership Philosophies
Partnership
Philosophy
Empowern
ment
Independen
ce,
Respect
Making the
informed
choices
Autonomy
Power
Sharing

Empowerment
In working by way of the partnership certain philosophies are formed between
the social and the health care sectors, these philosophies helps to toughen the
work. Such philosophies are like the empowerment, independence, respect,
making the informed choices, trust and equity (Butt and McGuinness, 2008).
The philosophy of empowerment focuses on the process which helps the
individuals in acquiring an increased control over the various actions and
decisions which impact their health.
The philosophy of empowerment is significant because it is essential for the
development and the foundation of the effective relationship between the client
and the professional (Larkin, Richardson and Tabreman, 2011).
 Empowerment philosophy helped in decreasing the dependency related to the
participants while making the decisions. For example, in the case of a partnership
between the two health care organization, the organization for changing the
record system of the patients, the company needs the collaborative power of
making the choice for the company (Petch, Cook and Miller, 2013).
Empowerment related to social and health care services is the process which acts
as the strong foundation in the partnership working and without it, the applied
processes will not be effective,

Independence Philosophy
The other philosophy is the Independence philosophy
with the capability to put together the decisions that
may impact the individual's life without the control of the
others and relatives (Larkin, Richardson and Tabreman,
2011).
According to oxford theory, the individual in the
interdependence philosophy is free from the outside
control and is not subjected to the other authority.
 For example, in the independence partnership, the
health care professionals and the patients are having the
autonomy to decide on the treatment way he wants to
opt and can himself easily self-regulate with the required
necessities.

Philosophy of Respect
The philosophy of the Respect is known as the feeling of
profound admiration to the group or the individual in their
qualities, performances, and the achievements.
 In partnership, the respect plays a vital role as it is the
partnership where the workers work together for achieving
the similar goals and the relationship is on the basis of the
mutual understanding and respect for the competencies and
the skills and the credit of combining such resources for
achieving the beneficial outcomes. (Larkin, Richardson and
Tabreman, 2011).
For example, the different categories people either the
Aboriginal or the indigenous or the rich and the poor all will
be distributed with the same health care services for the
social well being.

Making informed choices
Making informed choices according to its name
suggests, that where the two or more than the
two organizations are in the partnership one
has to notify the other previous to make of any
of the decisions which may impact the other
organizations.
For example, a partnership between the health
care trusts and the CQC, if in case the CQC is
taking decision for changing the quality
parameters, all the health care trusts are to be
informed beforehand.

Autonomy
In partnerships, the autonomy plays a very vital role and is
accountable for the proper functioning of the organizations.
The reason for the importance of the autonomyin the
partnership is because if the distrust enters the
relationship, the partnership is bound for the failure.
The mutual confidence increases at the level of the
individuals which helps the partnership, on the whole, to
become transparent and also encourages the trust among
the partners (M Lewis, 2004).
Autonomy in the social and the health care settings is
essential because in the absence of the autonomy the client
will not act honestly and openly with the professionals

Power Sharing
Power sharing is related to the fairness, equity
philosophy in the partnership of the social and the
health care helps the individuals in the distribution
of the opportunities in relation to the well-being.
This philosophy of power sharing helps each and
every patient to be treated equally and the access
of the health services is equally distributed among
the individuals (M Lewis, 2004).
 This philosophy helps in the equal distribution of
the services and the accessibility of the health
services among the individuals.

RELATIONSHIP OF PARTNERSHIP WITHIN THE SOCIAL AND THE HEALTH CARE
SERVICES:
The social and the health care partnership is vital as it
results in the wider prospects of the growth and
development of the cooperation between social care
workers and the organization related to the health care.
The milestone related to the philosophy of partnership
is the thought of the condition of patients with the
services that is significant for the elderly patients, who
are in great extent dependent on the social and the
health care services (Rummery, 2009).
The social and the health care partnerships allow the
social and the health organizations providing the
patients with the wide range of the services.

MERITS AND DEMERITS:
Additionally, the partnership philosophies in the health and social
care focus on upgrading the quality life of the patients.
 The health care professional and the social workers can place the
superior standards of care for the patients, particularly, for the
individuals who are reliant on the caregivers and are not having
the have family members, for performing the caregivers role.
However, the partnership of the health and social care contributes
in a great way to the overall enhancement of the superiority of the
care that in nature contributes to the progress in the quality life of
the patients, suffering from the serious health issues and also
needs the social care at the particular time (Rummery, 2009).
Frequently, the patients with the severe health issues are not able
to access the social care because of the efforts and time its
requires. The health conditions of the client may impose the
important limitations on the movements.