... at: fionajcollins@ymail.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Partnership Team working Interprofessional relationships Multi‐professional teams New ways of working Partnership working (working together across disciplinary and agency boundaries to improve services around the needs...

... objectives Team working National Health Service Health care Public finance Local government With the launch of the recent Health and Social Care Bill, relationships between the National Health Service (NHS) and local government seem set to change dramatically. Major re‐organisations often lead...

... 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...

... the boundary‐spanning role is undertaken (Figure 1). These are examined in more detail in the next section. Health care Social care Team working Strategic alliances Skills Competences There is a longstanding debate in the social sciences over the determinants of social, political and economic...