Health and Social care Level 3 Unit 18 Task 4
A multi disciplinary team is a group of trained professionals working together with the service users, to get the best possible outcome. Multi disciplinary teams help to make more accurate decisions at ease and use their different views to work out what is best for the patient’s sake. A successful team has the ability to work together, agree with decisions, have common interests which in this case would be the well being of the patient, must have people skills and leadership skills so they are able to get their point across and take part in group meetings and must also be committed. Partnerships can be formed between a number of individuals, agencies or organisations with a shared interest. Health care proffessionals often work alongside one another as part of a team, each member has a unique and different role to play to help ensure the service users receive the best possible care and treatment.
An example of a multi disiplimnary team that may be found within a hospital setting is; service user, doctor and surgeon. This works because the patient will communicate with their doctor and explain to them what the problem is and if they have and concerns or questions, the doctor will then diagnose the problem and if needs be communicate with a surgeoen and come up with a plan to fix the problem and then discuss this with the patient and gather their feedback and explain the different options available. Overall this does help to improve the level of service a patient is receiving because it means that two qualified proffessionals are able to discuss all the possible options and come up with an outcome that will best ebenfit the patient, a doctor and a surgeon have similar knowledge, however both have new knowledge they can offer eachother so the patient. This partnership proves effective for example when a patient has cancer, the doctor would detect where the cancer is and discuss with the surgeon as to what needs to be done and what operation is needed to ensure the
An example of a multi disiplimnary team that may be found within a hospital setting is; service user, doctor and surgeon. This works because the patient will communicate with their doctor and explain to them what the problem is and if they have and concerns or questions, the doctor will then diagnose the problem and if needs be communicate with a surgeoen and come up with a plan to fix the problem and then discuss this with the patient and gather their feedback and explain the different options available. Overall this does help to improve the level of service a patient is receiving because it means that two qualified proffessionals are able to discuss all the possible options and come up with an outcome that will best ebenfit the patient, a doctor and a surgeon have similar knowledge, however both have new knowledge they can offer eachother so the patient. This partnership proves effective for example when a patient has cancer, the doctor would detect where the cancer is and discuss with the surgeon as to what needs to be done and what operation is needed to ensure the