... a relational and integrated care perspective it aims to identify barriers to achieving more effective ways of working in the prevailing context of “managerial domination”. Communities of practice (COPs) are evaluated to identify their potential to overcome some of these barriers. Design/methodology...

...Michelle Cornes This article questions whether traditional management approaches will be sufficient to deliver change when it comes to implementing personalisation, and outlines an alternative approach based on collaborative working in ‘communities of practice’. Personalisation Implementation...

...Lynda Chandler; Angela Fry A Community of Practice (CoP) on discharge planning was established in South East Wales to test whether it could support sustainable service improvement. We describe the methodology, and report on its piloting and the lessons learnt. A member survey produced positive...

... service delivery about the way they related common terms about integration to their own practice, and then discussed the findings in relation to literatures on integration, communities of practice and situated learning theory. The policy of integration According to the literature, we have been talking...