Importance Of Effective Partnership Working

Register to read the introduction… Shared records like electronic, written, emails, face to face, working effectively together with professionals, agencies and organisations enhance the wellbeing of people, and provide positive support and improved outcomes. As managers we use a variety of communication. Systems used within our workplace could include service users daily care plan notes, communication book and daily handover. This ensures good team work and partnership working. External partnership working could include calls to book appointments for service users with hospitals, doctors, opticians, liaising with other professionals such as the district nurse, chiropodist to arrange visits and calls to/from service users relatives. Within my organisation I will designate people with designated jobs to complete in relation to partnership working. As manager I may be responsible for effective communication and partnership working which may include ensuring notes from meetings and clinical reviews are taken, circulated and agreed, ensuring referrals to other services or external agencies are made in an appropriate way following operational policy and procedures required and/or external agencies are followed up if no response is received and ensuring all service users are given a copy of their care plan and information regarding their treatment and care. Team working is very important, service users could be placed at risk if different teams fail to communicate effectively, in order to minimise this risk the team must communicate with each other …show more content…
When I feel there is room for improvement to communication systems for internal partnerships working this could mean calling a staff meeting in my workplace and putting forward any proposals. This could be made through written communication. By liaising with external partners at regular meetings and discussing, listening and sharing ideas and problems and solutions will be able to be found to any communication improvement which needs to be made. Sometimes this may mean reaching compromises or it may just involve alleviating the anxieties of others in the partnership. 4.1 Explain legal and ethical tensions between maintaining confidentiality and sharing