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Taking your partners
— developing relationships between primary care groups and local authorities | | Author(s) | Caroline Glendinning, Anna Coleman |
| Journal title | Research, Policy and Planning, vol 18, no 3, 2000 |
| Pages | pp 25-33 |
| Keywords | General practice ; Social Services Departments ; Interaction [welfare services] ; Coordination. |
| Annotation | The development of partnerships between the new primary care groups (PCGs) and local authorities is described. The paper draws on a national sample survey of PCGs to describe the roles of social services representatives on PCG boards. The extent to which PCGs are able to develop links between the corporate, strategic and operational activities of both organisations is discussed. Histories of poor relationships between general practitioners (GPs are the largest professional group on PCG boards) and social services departments (SSDs), and continuing problems of non-coterminus boundaries between health and local authority organisations both constitute major problems and barriers to the development of partnerships. Nevertheless, only 6 months after PCGs went "live", there are encouraging indications of new collaborations developing, not just with SSDs, but with a wide range of other local authority services as well. In the immediate future, it will be important to ensure that pressures to move to Primary Care Trust status do not disrupt these early partnership developments. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010208205 A |
| Classmark | L5: PF: QK6: QAJ |
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