IF PARTNERSHIP WORKING HAS BEEN CENTRAL TO HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE POLICY FOR MANY DECADES WHY HAS IT NOT BEEN SUCCESSFULLY ACHIEVED IN PRACTICE

If Partnership Working Has Been Central to Health and Social Care Policy for Many Decades Why has it not been Successfully Achieved in Practice

If Partnership Working Has Been Central to Health and Social Care Policy for Many Decades Why has it not been Successfully Achieved in Practice

Introduction

In the UK, Health and Social Care is a very broad period that concerns to incorporated services that are accessible from wellbeing and social care providers. It can furthermore signify a variety of occupational and learned techniques which can be taken at diverse learned and occupational grades from GNVQ, A-Level, S/NVQ, to degrees. (Allott, 2004, pp. 21-25)

In this paper, we explore the meaning of partnership working and review the policy developments and investment initiatives underpinning the Government's emphasis on partnership working between statutory services and the voluntary and community sector. A number of barriers hinder effective partnership working and we examine some possible solutions to overcome these. We then address the key issues influencing the approach to increasing the voluntary sector's participation in partnership activities within mental health services and provide brief examples of good practice. Finally, we discuss practical issues relevant to planning partnerships and the role consultant psychiatrists can play in initiating and developing partnership working between the voluntary sector and statutory mental health services. (Allott, 2004, pp. 21-25)

Depending on their requirement, scholars may start off as care aides and evolve care pathways to become doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, social workers, counsellors, psychotherapists, Paramedics or a variety of other associated occupations.

The UK Government seems to have been bewildered over its aspires and objectives for health and social care, while the Scottish Executive on the other hand has pursued a more reliable set about starting with the integration of primary and secondary health services and yearn to incorporate wellbeing and communal services. However, in what seems to be a foremost flaw in principle, both the UK Government and the Scottish Executive have privileged the NHS as the major contestant in their wellbeing and social care partnership concepts at times alienating the Local Authorities (Richardson, 2006, pp. 657-669).

Therefore, to suggest that organizations or occupations are to blame for this is disingenuous at best or duplicitous at worst. However, the require for productive partnership employed is paramount when there are foremost organizational alterations in answer to the desires of older people—the formation of Primary Care Trusts being one facet of this, with the promise creation of unified Care Trusts to come.

Partnership Theories, Policies, Ethics and Values

Partnership working between the National Health Service (NHS), social services and the voluntary sector is a central focus of current Government policy in the UK. Service users with complex mental healthcare needs and their careers require the many agencies that provide them with a wide range of services and personal support to work closely together. Although partnership working across health sectors in the provision of integrated ...