Preserving Health and Social Care through Collaboration of Services

This is very much in the spirit of creating sustainable organisations, recognising that preaching to stakeholders is no longer the answer and that the 21st century is very much about engagement with them. At the heart of any health and social care organisation there must be a dialogue with its service users, as well as creating strong connections with other stakeholders such as suppliers, care provider agencies and limiting impacts on the environment through responsible health and social care practices. With subjects such as end of life care, longevity of care, technically complex and wide-ranging as endangered species, demographic change and increasing dementia amongst older people, collaborating with experts and our community is essential.

Mutualisation of strategic care provider agencies is aimed to liberating health and social care institutions from budgetary constraints, declining frontline care providers and increasing demand for high standards of health and social care. A new collaborative approach to health and social care that incorporates social inclusion is changing the way we work – for the better – giving service users/patients the opportunity for choice and control, health and education policy. Mutualised health and social care: it may sound a bit faddy and contrived, but it's possibly the most profound – and in many ways liberating – development in power shift to individuals, communities and service users.

Health and social care has always been to some extent a partnership between the professionals. They have always had some forms of joint working approaches both official and unofficial. However, the modernisation of services and interactive digital technology such as Telecare systems has massively expanded that pool of resources by enabling the authentic, unmediated voices of social workers, doctors, nurses, therapists – as well as students, patients and other users of health services – to emerge. Medical technology has changed the face of community support services and how care is delivered in modern times. Medical technology such as hydro-dialysis has enabled more users to remain and receive home care in their own home. It has also helped to capture more referrals and assessment of care needs as experienced by and effectively reported on by some of the professionals and families.

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