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This 9 page paper looks at how the theory and perceived benefits of joint working and the way that these very difficult to realise. The paper considers the historical goals for collaborative working, the motivations, such as financial and political needs as well as patient needs. The bibliography cites 7 sources.
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both the system in place and the way that these integrate, or fail to integrate, with other services. It has been often postulated that inter-personal joint working with other services
by social services could add value to the service they offer, creating efficiency and a more streamlined service for the clients. There have been many documents or papers calling for
a higher level of inter-personal joint working. These have been published over the last few decades, however, even recently there remain the calls for more joint working. In looking at
the reasons there also appear to be underlying economic motivations. This is reflected in the 2002 document published by the government "Better Public Services Through Joint Working" (Leason, 2002). In
this is was stated that money could be saved by "removing overlap and duplication in service delivery and by not reinventing the wheel" (Leason, 2002). In this same document it
was also noted that there were other benefits. If social services and the hospitals worked together an example cited was that of enabling older patients to be released from hospital
earlier, which as well as saving money and freeing up thousands of bed, it would also reduce the stress for the patient (Leason, 2002).
The idea of joint working may have different manifestations, one of these may be the development of single units with mixed discipline staff or organisations that bring the different
discipline together (Leason, 2002). The idea of economic savings and increased operational value of social working jointing inter-personally with others disciplines is not
isolated to hospitals. Other values can be seen, for example, in domestic violence cases where as well as attention from healthcare authorities the involvement of a social worker, working with
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