1st Edition
Collaborative Practice in Primary and Community Care
The effective delivery of primary care requires the good working of a multi-professional team who provide that care. This accessible and concise text explores the ways in which primary care teams can collaborate well to advance the quality of clinical care and enhance collaborative working across the healthcare system as a whole.
Taking a workbook approach, and including examples, narratives, case histories and further reading, Collaborative Practice in Primary and Community Care brings together theory and good practice to offer the reader viable models for achieving excellence. Addressing specific challenges to practising collaboratively throughout, it contains chapters exploring the contemporary context of primary care, collaboration with patients, collaboration between different professional groups, collaboration amongst organisations, and the respective roles of education and technology in promoting collaboration.
Written by a multi-professional selection of experienced authors, practitioners and educators, this textbook is designed for a wide audience of healthcare professionals with an interest in primary care.
Introduction
Sanjiv Ahluwalia, Karen Storey and John Spicer
1. Primary care: its modern context and the role of collaboration in practice
John Spicer
2. Collaboration with patients in primary care
Katie Coleman and Eleni Chambers
3. Organisations collaborating together
Sanjiv Ahluwalia
4. Learning to collaborate: boundary work and contemporary approaches in interprofessional education
Ann Griffin and Catherine O’Keeffe
5. The role of technology in collaborative primary care
Ruth Chambers and Marc Schmid
6. Collaboration in general practice
Jo Sauvage
7. Collaboration amongst professionals in primary care: examples from pharmacy
Elizabeth Mills
8. Collaboration amongst professionals in primary care: examples from social work
Graeme Jeffs
9. General practice nursing in collaborative practice
Karen Storey
10. Collaboration and paramedicine
Chris Warwick and Stuart Rutland
11. Concluding remarks on collaborative primary care
Sanjiv Ahluwalia, Karen Storey and John Spicer
Biography
Sanjiv Ahluwalia is Postgraduate Dean, Heath Education England (North Central and East London), UK.
John Spicer is Head of Primary Care Education and Development, Health Education England (South London), UK.
Karen Storey is National Primary Care Lead Nurse, NHS England and Improvement, UK.