Partnership in Health and Social Care

Evaluate possible outcomes of partnership working for users of services, professionals and organisations
In all partnerships working for users of services, professionals and organisations, outcomes are positive and negative.
Positive outcomes: Partnership can result to situation where in committed employees will deliver improved services to the services users which will consequently improve their wellbeing. Positive outcomes are to improve services, empowerment, autonomy and informed decision making.  For a positive partnership working, the service users will achieve the benefits of the partnership philosophies.
Empowerment in health and social care means to authorize or enable the staff, the caretakers and the people who are being taken care of. This ensure that everyone has the freedom to make their own choices depending on what works best for them. Good partnership relationship between various health and social care organisations will promote empowerment and independence in service users.
Respect, we are sure that the patients and staff doesn’t lose their individuality and are given the proper attention required by them.
Independence ensure that everyone has the independence to choose whatever they feel best suits for them. They are allowed to take decisions hence helping the management to come up with a plan which suits every individual.
Negative outcomes for service users such as abuse, neglect, anger, miscommunication. Communication is the key while collaborating and it is the way to deal with services users. It is important to use the right communication skills when working in partnership with other organisations.
Positive outcomes for professionals it will lead to a well-coordinated services provision. The positive working partnership between professionals has an impact on the organizations as all care professionals working together belong to different organizations, therefore the effective partnership creates an integrated service, allow staff to have a common approach, the same vision, shared provision and coherent working practices.
Analyse the potential barriers to partnership working in health and social care services
Working in collaboration with other organizations is not an easy venture because it comes with different challenges.
The potential barriers to working partnership in health and social care services can be noticed at different levels. For example, where in the organisation there is a culture of top-down management style rather than an open collaborative inter-professional with a focus on person centred approach.
There is also a lack of competence, knowledge and skills between workers (unqualified social workers accomplishing the task of a qualified social worker) and lack of understanding of roles and responsibilities.
Power imbalances exist between the professions with each believing that working partnership will diminish their profession in some way or that they are more important than other therefore should be in charge or not want to share information to other.
Different practices and policies leading to different priorities, attitudes and values, lack of training among partners on important issues.
Funding can also be a barrier for working partnership. An organisation may have more funding than other and believe that merging with other can impact on the way its budget is spent.
The role of voluntary organizations and service users is often unclear. They feel like their need is taken into consideration and are not seen as partners.
Barriers in working partnership are very common in health and social leading to tragic consequences and exposing more and more vulnerable people to abuse and neglect.
Devise strategies to improve outcomes for partnership working in health and social care services
Different practices and policies leading to different priorities, attitudes and values, lack of training among partners on important issues.
Funding can also be a barrier for working partnership. An organisation may have more funding than other and believe that merging with other can impact on the way its budget is spent.
The role of voluntary organizations and service users is often unclear. They feel like their need is taken into consideration and are not seen as partners.
Barriers in working partnership are very common in health and social leading to tragic consequences and exposing more and more vulnerable people to abuse and neglect.
Empowerment. As health and social care professional empowering the service is very essential to us. He makes the service users feel respected, involved in his care and a better partner in the working partnership process.
Put the service user at the centre of what we do.
Training is essential because it increases knowledge, define roles and responsibilities and unified working strategies.
Following of different legislations covering the health and social care services.