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Primary health care and social care: working across professional boundaries
— Part one: The changing context of inter-professional relationships | | Author(s) | Bob Hudson |
| Journal title | Managing Community Care, vol 7, issue 1, February 1999 |
| Pages | pp 15-22 |
| Keywords | General practitioners ; Social workers ; Social Services Departments ; Coordination ; Interaction [welfare services] ; Liaison. |
| Annotation | 1990s Government policy on health and social care has stressed inter-agency collaboration and working - sometimes involving very large organisational alliances - rather than inter-professional relations. This is a major imbalance, as it is front-line staff who have to provide integrated care to service users; and if their relations are not clear and constructive, then broad inter-agencies strategies may fail. This is the first of two articles exploring the issue of inter-professional working, including past difficulties and future prospects for securing partnerships at the front-line. The article is in two sections. The first traces the growing recognition of the value of teamworking in primary care, including the specific changes taking place in the key professional domains: social care, medicine, nursing, and the therapeutic professions. The second examines barriers to progress, namely differences in: patterns of employment and accountability; decision-making loci; perceptions of cost and benefit; models of resource distribution; and professional cultures, exemplified by possible conflict within and between medical, social and nursing groupings. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-001027201 A |
| Classmark | QT6: QR: PF: QAJ: QK6: QAK |
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