Primary Health Care and Social Care: Working across Professional Boundaries: Part Two: Models of Inter‐Professional Collaboration

In the second part of this two‐part feature, four models of inter‐professional collaboration are explored, each of them representing points on a continuum from lower to higher levels of collaboration.The four are:• Communication: interactions are confined to facilitating the exchange of information.• Co‐ordination: individuals remain in separate organisations and locations, but develop formal ways of working across these boundaries.• Co‐location: members of different professions are physically located alongside each other.• Commissioning: professionals with a commissioning remit develop a shared approach to the activity