Working in Partnership within Health and Social Care: A Report

This report provides a comprehensive overview of partnership working in health and social care (HSC). It begins by defining partnership and highlighting its benefits, followed by an exploration of various models, including unified, coalition, and hybrid models, with detailed explanations of their structures, goals, and applications. The report then delves into current legislation and organizational practices and policies, such as the Mental Capacity Act 2005, the Disability Discrimination Act 2005, and the Children's Act 1989, explaining their purposes and implications for HSC. Furthermore, it examines differences in working practices and policies across voluntary, public, and private sectors, and how these differences affect collaborative efforts. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of effective partnership working and the challenges involved, summarizing key aspects of models and legislation associated with HSC.

Working in Partnership in
Health and Social Care

TABLE OF CONTENT
 Introduction
 Models of partnership working in HSCs
 Current legislation and organizational practices and policies for the partnership
working in HSCs
 Differences in working practices and policies that affects collaborative working
 Conclusion
 References

INTRODUCTION
 Partnership in health and social care leads together two and more companies which
empowers them and maximizes advantage of available resources and transform them
into large benefits and wellbeing of the society.
 Effective implementation of the partnership empowers the organization with additional
knowledge, confidence and skills which are crucial for the planning of better health
care and social care services.
 The presentation provides understanding about numerous aspects of partnership in the
health and social care with other related factors.

Models of partnership working in HSCs
Unified model
 It is unified type model that includes the management, staffing and training
of employees in the structure of management.
 There is no layer of command or the area of these actions.
 The main goal of the structure is to delegate integrated services to the needy
so that improves wellbeing of the individual organizations who works in
partnership (Merner and et.al., 2019).
 In this structure has separate financial system that decreases economical
crisis issue in the partnership working.
 The major benefit of the structure is this it provides single system for the all
services including health care and social care activities as well.
 it works only one strategic approach that conducts a set of well-organized
goals and objectives.

Cont.
Coalition model
 As per the model concept, there are various activities that are interlinked to each other but perform
separately.
 In simple mean, the management, staffing, resource and the training of the staff works are connected
to each other for helping perspective but works individually in the workplace.
 The major benefit of the model is this activities and services cooperates each other in the joint action
and leads value-based result in the organization.
 In addition, it makes individual independent while performing their tasks which are delegated by
management.
 This model is fruitful for the partnership working because here partners uses the model top plan
together whereas management assigns tasks to each one but they work separately.
 The main goal of the model to maintain independency of individuals and improves quality of the
services.

Cont.
Hybrid model
 The combination of two and more models together is known as hybrid model.
 This model is obtained by combination of the coalition and unified model.
 It is most applicable model rather than other models because it shows different partnership
functioning in a particular organization.
 Due to combination of two models in the single model helps to achieve the best services.
 All above mentioned models are partnership working models that are adopted in health care and
social care sector.

Current legislation and organizational practices
and policies for the partnership working in HSCs
 Legislation have the set of rule and regulations that are imposed by the government to
protect people from any type of discrimination and prejudice (Palmerand et.al., 2017).
 As same healthcare and social care also follows a set of rule and regulation which is
designed by healthcare government to protect patient and the staff who perform their
responsibilities in the companies that related to health and social care sector.
 There is two current legislation and organizational procedures and policies for the
partnership working are explained as follows:

Cont.
Mental capacity act 2005
 The main goal of the act is to empowers those people who unable to take decision own by own on
and unable to create plan on the behalf of them for raising the quality of their life.
 In that state, this act is applied on the patient who have mental retardation issue and admits in the
mental hospitals.
 According to act, everyone has right to take decision for their life so no one cannot snatch this right.
 There are various professional agencies i.e. mental health services, local authorities, police and the
family members all are allows to take decision for the patient who does not have mental capacity to
make appropriate decision for themselves.
 As per the act concept, other parties of the patient can take decision only in a case when they have
accessed the metal capacity of the individuals.
 Government strictly focuses on all the associated agencies who works in health and social care
sector so that they work properly and raises the standard of patient’s life.

Cont.
Disability Discrimination act 2005
 According to act, employer must treat a disabled person properly and provides supports when they need.
 It is an unlawful for the organization if it treat a disabled person less favourably then others due to their
disability (Pearson and Watson, 2018).
 To leads fairness in the workplace designs disability discrimination act and has imposed for all
organizations.
 This act is applicable for the organization which associated with healthcare and social care sector.
 The main goal of the act is to promote equality of opportunity between disabled person and other persons
by removing discrimination and improves standard of life.
 This act is imposed in the health and social care sector as well whereas employer or health professionals
cannot treat disabled person unfairly.
 When any employer or health practitioners discriminates with disabled person then government give
quick response.

Cont.
Children’s act 1989
 The main goal of the act is to offer the safety and security to the
children and fulfil all needs which he aspects because his future can
be better and becomes good citizen of the country.
 There are five main points that are focused on the children act such
as be healthy, stay safe, gain economic wellbeing, give positive
contribution and enjoy life and achieves goals etc. makes career of
child and inspires them to improve their personality.
 There are the main legislation of the partnership working in the
health and social care which controls all activities and guides them
to take lawful practices in the workplace.

Differences in working practices and policies that
affects collaborative working
 A policy is the set of actions that is organized by the government or organization to promote and identify the
decision-making.
 When above mentioned policies i.e. equality act, mental capacity act, disability discrimination act and health and
safety law etc. are imposed in the business for the collaborating working perspective then it may prove positive and
negative for the organization.
 The positive way of the policies in collaborative working is this, both corporations works together that
automatically influences working efficiency and motivates them with the other policy’s making.
 On the other hand, policy develops unfiled way of working and puts negative impact when conflict crisis arises
between the company for business advertisement.
 In other word, when a organization implements own policy on other company who works in partnership, in that
situation conflict crises occurs (Sixsmith and et.al., 2017).
 There are three sectors voluntary, public and private sectors which follows these policies while working in the
partnership such as:

Cont.
Government
 The main goal of the policies implementation is to give the help numerous sectors and
improves their collaboration in term of financial, resource allocation, arrangement and others.
 These all legislation are formulated by the government and permits each health professionals
to work together with partnership and fulfil all needs of the family.
Education
 The school and collage are the main source of the organization who is associated with health
and social care.
 The partnership policies are implemented in the collage and schools which are associated with
medical care and social care service and provides them effective study material and course.

Cont.
NHS
 NHS is health care and social care organization which is located in London and offers
numerous type services i.e. care service, pharmaceutical care, health care, clinical, social care
and coordinator etc. to the patient across the UK.
 It promotes the policies that contains a set of rule and regulation such as anger management,
medication etc. for the patient and their families.
 It follows hierarchical organizational structure that motivates individuals to give productive
services so that they can become part of promotion and incentives strategy.
 NHS also implements some policies while working in the partnership with other organizations
which maintains individual wellbeing in the partnership and leads high benefits for each other.

CONCLUSION
 This presentation has provided summarised understanding about health and social care service
which works in partnership, there were various challenges arose and crucial to faced them and
resolved them in efficient manner instead of avoiding.
 It cane be concluded model of partnership working in the health and social care service.
 Analyse model of partnership working and various type legislation associated HSCs can be
summarised in presentation.

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