Partnership and Teamwork Strategies in Health and Social Care Settings

This report delves into the concepts of partnership and teamwork within the health and social care sector. It begins by defining partnership as a collaborative approach to sharing profits and losses, highlighting its significance in facilitating communication and service provision among healthcare professionals. Different types of partnerships, including project, problem-oriented, ethical, and ideology partnerships, are discussed, emphasizing their roles in improving patient care and healthcare service delivery. The report then shifts its focus to teamwork, underscoring its importance in enhancing organizational effectiveness and patient satisfaction. The report explores how teamwork, involving doctors, assistants, and other hospital staff, contributes to improved coordination, training, and overall service quality. The benefits of teamwork in creating a positive environment and encouraging staff contributions are also highlighted, emphasizing its impact on patient comfort and satisfaction levels.

Partnership and it’s types
Partnership is considered as an approach for sharing profit and loss among partners of
the firm. Under this arrangement, for health and social care partnership works between two or
more individuals, government agencies and entities that contribute interest and gained profit as
per terms (Kerrym and Mullan, 2014). In this regard, partners communicate with each other
properly regarding providing hospital services. For example; specialists of specific diseases
distribute their work and gains income according to decided terms during operating partnership.
For health care sector, partnership is related to operating services and sharing earned profits as
per decided terms. Therefore, under this approach, doctors provide facilities in deciding values.
For example; therapist and physician will gain their profit according to number of treatments
and income earned from patients. In this process, health and social care services are provided to
patients according to decided terms for treatments.
Types of partnership:- There are different kinds of partnership can discuss as below:-
Project partnership:- It is related to time limited and remains beneficial for service provider
and care taker of organizations come under health care sector. Under this partnership, project
regarding recover patients are accomplished for producing satisfactory services effectively
(Wuest and et.al., 2015).
Problem oriented partnership:- In this activity, partnership is related to meet problems of
health systems and aims to reduce specific disease to provide comfort hospitalization to care
takers.
Ethical partnership:- It is useful for both professionals/doctors and patients of the
organization. However, it sets target to improve better living way for service providers and
patients. In this regard, ethics are considered as most significant tool for increasing efficiency of
entity.
Ideology partnership:- This partnership is interlinked with decision making process between
doctors and patients (Binagwaho and et.al., 2013). Under this process, decisions are taken related
to diseases and recovering those impacts on effectiveness of organization.

Teamwork
Teamwork is an activity to accomplish any task that influences organization’s
effectiveness. For health and social care, doctors, assistants and other hospital staff provides
services to patients. It is beneficial for producing comfort and satisfactory facilities to service
takers to improve efficiency of hospital organization (Hill, 2014). In this regard, disease
specialists and doctors of entity prepare strategy to achieve great coordination of hospital staff
for effective team building and improving qualitative services. However, leader of the group
organize training programs for improving skills of staff related to services. It impacts on
performance and effective team efficiency is determined. For social care entity, teamwork is
done through contribution of social worker, occupational therapist, dietitian and community
nurse. In this regard, it is needed for supporting each other to recover patients’ diseases.
However, for providing comfort and satisfactory services to care takes, it is necessary to build
team as well enhancing its efficiency. It is determined that working in team related to
supporting all doctors, professional and staff is useful for adequate entity’s services to overcome
diseases of patients systematically.
Therefore, teamwork is useful for taking advantage of each staff’s contribution and
encouraging them for better work performance. It is interlinked with dealing to patients. It is
determined that motivated workers perform their job more effectively that affects team building
and group efficiency to improve service qualities of entity (Glasb and Dickinson, 2014).
Therefore, through effective teamwork services in health and social care implements at high
level. In this regard, patients’ comfortably and satisfaction level related to services get
impacted. In addition to this, proper teamwork is helpful for creating understanding and positive
environment of entity to increase service values. It is interrelated with health and social care
services for enhancing satisfaction level of patients as well remains useful for providing better
services to care takers as high level. Hence, it is determined that proper teamwork and effective
contribution of each staff is useful for improving services provided by firm efficiently.

REFERENCE
Books and Journals
Binagwaho, A. and et.al., 2013. The human resources for health program in Rwanda—a new
partnership. New England Journal of Medicine. 789(21). pp.2054-2059.
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.
Hill, B., 2014. Transforming Interprofessional Partnerships: A New Framework for Nursing
and Partnership-Based Health Care. Creative Nursing. 89(3). pp.202.
Kerry, V.B. and Mullan, F., 2014. Global Health Service Partnership: building health
professional leadership. The Lancet. 67(5). pp.1688-1691.
Wuest, J. and et.al., 2015. The process, outcomes, and challenges of feasibility studies
conducted in partnership with stakeholders: a health intervention for women survivors
of intimate partner violence. Research in nursing & health. 78(1). pp.82-96.