Interprofessional collaboration in intermediate care
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Interprofessional collaboration: how is it created and sustained in intermediate care?
IRAS ID
158592
Contact name
Anita Mottram
Contact email
Research summary
In 1978 the World Health Organisation acknowledged that interprofessional collaboration was essential in order to ensure the success of primary health care. The Department of Health Modernisation agenda advocated that integrated partnership working across professional boundaries would energise people and would lead to a more innovative and effective use of resources as well as improving the quality of patient care through improved clinical governance and value for money.
In spite of the impetus to implement this type of working, there has been limited empirical evidence to support interprofessional collaboration as a result of the number of variables inherent within it, for example different professionals, professions, teams and organisations. Due to these it is suggested that it is difficult to prove that collaborative practice improves service delivery.
The aim of the research is therefore to explore the phenomena of interprofessional collaboration using the working title “Inter-professional collaboration: how is it created and sustained in intermediate care?”This will involve an exploratory study of Intermediate Care teams in West Yorkshire who have within their teams, nurses, occupational therapists and physiotherapists in order to ascertain how and why interprofessional collaboration works successfully in some teams but not others.
REC name
East of England - Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
14/EE/1109
Date of REC Opinion
27 Aug 2014
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion