1st Edition

Collaborative Practice in Primary and Community Care

Edited By Sanjiv Ahluwalia, John Spicer, Karen Storey Copyright 2020
    148 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    148 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    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.