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Working together: lessons for collaboration between health and social services
Author(s) -
Higgins Ray,
Oldman Christine,
Hunter David J.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
health and social care in the community
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.984
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1365-2524
pISSN - 0966-0410
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2524.1994.tb00174.x
Subject(s) - agency (philosophy) , public relations , service delivery framework , quality (philosophy) , service (business) , joint (building) , social care , health care , business , sociology , political science , public administration , nursing , medicine , marketing , engineering , law , social science , architectural engineering , philosophy , epistemology
The recent community care reforms have placed a high premium on interagency collaboration between health and social care agencies to ensure the delivery of high quality services to users. An examination of the historical record reveals the problematic nature of such activity. This paper provides a review of this record and then illustrates contemporary inter‐agency issues through an analysis of a local experiment in joint service delivery in Leeds (UK). The paper's examination of the literature on joint working provides some clues as to why the experiment's original aims and objectives remained largely unrealized. The difficulties encountered by the key actors were a mix of cultural, professional and organizational factors.