Co-creation of a Model for Intersectoral Health Care delivery on type II diabetes – A collaboration between patients, healthcare professionals, and researchers

Intersectoral collaboration in health care poses many challenges, in Denmark and elsewhere. Studies show that such challenges often stem from increased specialisation and “silo thinking” in the way health-care systems are organised. Several of these studies further show that not only citizens with chronic illnesses but also health-care professionals find intersectoral collaboration difficult, due to the many actors involved in the patients’ care and treatment. It is therefore important to focus on how intersectoral collaboration can be developed, in order to promote organisational structures that counter the lack of coherence in intersectoral treatment efforts, and to ensure all citizens access to the nursing care and treatment services they need, by developing new and different ways for intersectoral collaboration.