The Importance Of Partnership Working In Health And Social Care

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PARTNERSHIP WORKING
When we talk about the concept partnership working, it may sound very complex but just as the name suggests, it's simply partners working together.
Understanding it better, one would ask, what at all is partnership?
Partnership is open to a variety of meanings with people often using the word in a variety of senses, depending on their understanding of the term. However, the Collins Dictionary defines partnership as a contractual relationship between two or more persons carrying on a joint business venture with a view to profit, each incurring liability for losses and the right to share in the profits. This means all parties are aware of the benefits and therefore work to their utmost best. It's sometimes termed a 'strategic …show more content…

There are those who find it all very incomprehensible when they first begin engaging in partnership working.
Sometimes even those who are ‘intuitively’ good at it don’t always know how they do what they do and, like any of us, have ‘gaps’ in their working understanding although successful partnership is based on collaboration, with collaboration viewed as a way to improve standards and reduce costs.
Because of this, within health and social care there is the need for health and social care agencies to work together more effectively in partnership and in collaboration in order to help in tackling the health inequalities.
The quintessential nature of partnership working has ensured that the government in recent times issued a large number of policy documents promoting collaboration to improve efficiency and effectiveness. This according to Tammy Boyce and Professor David Hunter, 2009 "working in partnership is central to reducing health inequalities – one department acting alone cannot tackle an issue that does not respect organisational …show more content…

This is all due to the fact that a profession is a little more than a job, it needs training, skill set achieved through continual professional development which will build one towards protecting the interests of the public.
Without the specialised knowledge and professional development one cannot become a professional as there is an ever increasing level of professionalism needed in the various occupations today.
So as to make these professions attractive, up and doing, Bernard Barber outlined four features that tell the nature of professions as general and systematic knowledge (a profession is such that if you do not have the required knowledge you cannot work or help anyone), orientation to community interest, self monitoring through internalised code of ethics (there is the need for a set of regulations to guide the work undertaken, so that people do not take things into their hands or do thing to their own benefit., and rewards that symbolize accomplishments in work and that are sought as ends in

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