.... Integration Partnerships Multiagency Liberalism Authoritarianism Marxism Politics Organisations Management Participants embarking on collaborative projects are often acutely aware that matters of interests and power are at stake. Where transactions are economic in nature, the relationships...

... 2011 Care trust Health care Social care Integration Partnerships The Health Services Management Centre has been involved with care trusts since their inception and we have maintained our interest and ties with a number of these organisations (Glasby and Peck, 2004). The ten‐year...

... of care”, “team‐working” and “partnerships” are some of the wide variety of terms increasingly employed within the range of initiatives and efforts that aim to enhance the quality of health and social care environments for patients and users. While each of these notions seems to represent a worthy cause...

...Raman Kaur Although much of the literature on partnership working tends to focus on high‐level structural, policy and managerial issues, this article summarises more bottom‐up research into the experiences of children, their parents and teachers with regard to speech and language support at school...

... partnership working enters yet another new phase. In particular, it demonstrates that the route to better outcomes depends on managing not only the tension between structure and culture, but also that between national targets and local discretion in services based on fundamentally different principles...

...Ruth Townsley; Debby Watson; David Abbott Recent government policies in relation to children stress the importance of service integration and partnership working, with particular emphasis on combating social exclusion. With reference to findings from a three‐year empirical study, this article...

...Bob Hudson The transition from adolescence to young adulthood for people with a learning disability is fraught with complexity, and this has increased as the range of agencies potentially involved has increased. Despite the development of a range of new partnership tools, the evidence to date...

...Mike Sheaff Health and social services are being urged to establish clearer lines of accountability, while also developing innovative partnership working. For both goals to be achieved, it is essential to move beyond the Government's highly centralised approach and recognise the scope for conflict...

... the evaluation, the main themes relevant to the pursuance of integration in other localities will be drawn out and discussed in light of the literature currently available. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Integration Partnerships Health and Social Care Mental Health Evaluation of the Integration knowledge...

...Bob Hudson Within the space of three years, the Department of Health oscillated between a commitment to partnership working and the imposition of structural change in the pursuit of integrated care. The idea of care trusts which integrate health and social care functions acquired political currency...