Inter-Professional Collaboration: Key to NHS Success

All these experience has helped me to become aware that working as a team, effective communicating, reflection and professional behaviour of health care professional can give a big difference and improvements to service users and clients. This essay emphasized that the inter-professional collaboration is necessary to successful work of NHS. The Department of Health (2012) have put into plans that will help with the growth of the multidisciplinary teams and standards that will succeed in dealing with the problems that were underlined. Working with the group of health care professionals has helped me to see how the inter-professional collaboration impart a positive outcome for obtaining a lot of new knowledge and findings out the strengths

It makes me understand that group work helps in a team process. It get hold of all individuals to put in the same commitment, effort and time. Without any negotiating and communication skills a team cannot run and progress. Peate (2010), stated that communication is fundamental in achieving positive outcomes and is carried out in many forms, the easiest is talking to each other, however to receive a successful outcome in communication, the skill of listening to what is being said must be used as misinterpretation and confusion may arise if the information that has been told is not heard correctly, there may be many reasons as to why some professionals do not listen, it may be that some professional teams look at other teams as being wrong in a certain aspect of care that is being delivered to a service user and due to this conflict within these teams or failure of adequate listening skills creates lost opportunities in care.
It is important that all communication between health professionals should be documented clearly without terminology or abbreviations that is only used within a single group of health professionals, writing must be legible to prevent mistakes being made which could result in need for legal action (UWE Conference,2017). The implications of working in partnership with other health professional teams in a multidisciplinary aspect including the service user in decision-making ensures collaborative working remains beneficial to all