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Unit 37:Complementary therapies in healthcare practice

Unit 37: Complementary Therapies in Healthcare Practice Shoniea is back!   Topic: Complementary and alternative medicine Complementary or alternative medicine (CAM) defines healthcare practices that use methods alternative to pharmaceuticals to teat illness and injury. This kind of practice focuses on prevention and an individual’s holistic health, wellbeing and treatments are tailored specifically to meet each and every individual’s requirements. Alternative medicine practitioners are not licenced and regulated in the UK by healthcare partitioning bodies. “The US National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) uses this distinction: When a non-mainstream practice is used together with conventional medicine, it's considered "complementary". When a non-mainstream practice is used instead of conventional medicine, it's considered "alternative". (NHS, 2018) In this blog I will be discussing the history an
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Unit 26: Supporting Team and Partnership Working Across Health and Social Care Services

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Unit 26: Supporting Team and Partnership Working Across Health and Social Care Services It’s me – Shoniea! Introduction LO3 My perspective of partnership working in health and social care is that it is the foundation of building great practice and the current reflection of the healthcare field shows many shortcomings in upholding partnership working theories in practice. Below is my observation on the outcomes of partnership working and the effects it has on different stakeholders.  “ Partnerships can achieve greater outcomes than individuals or organisations acting alone. Partnerships achieve increased benefits because they share expertise, skills and resources. These benefits can include: more effective service delivery.” (DHHS,2019).  The outcome of partnership working across different healthcare fields can vary dependant on the stakeholder. The outcome of partnership working is also dependant on the culture, management and structure of an org
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