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Collaborative Working

Collaborative and interprofessional working involves different professionals working together to achieve common goals and provide high quality care. Key aspects that enable effective collaboration include mutual trust, respect, responsibility, communication and understanding between roles. Workplaces and individuals must promote these qualities as well as positive leadership, training, clear vision and procedures to breakdown barriers between professions. Standards from regulatory bodies provide guidance on collaborative principles though implementation challenges remain in changing cultures and balancing clinical and collective accountability.

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Collaborative Working

Collaborative and interprofessional working involves different professionals working together to achieve common goals and provide high quality care. Key aspects that enable effective collaboration include mutual trust, respect, responsibility, communication and understanding between roles. Workplaces and individuals must promote these qualities as well as positive leadership, training, clear vision and procedures to breakdown barriers between professions. Standards from regulatory bodies provide guidance on collaborative principles though implementation challenges remain in changing cultures and balancing clinical and collective accountability.

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What is collaborative

working?
What is interprofessional working?
• ‘Interprofessional collaboration occurs when 2 or more
professions work together to achieve common goals and is
often used as a means for solving a variety of problems and
complex issues’ (Green & Johnson, 2015)
• ‘Collaborative practice happens when multiple health workers
from different professional backgrounds work together with
patients, families, carers and communities to deliver the
highest quality of care.’ (WHO, 2010)
• Task
• What kinds of qualities do you think work places and individuals
need to have for good collaborative working to take place?
Aspects of collaborative working
• Responsibility
• Accountability
• Coordination
• Communication
• Cooperation
• Assertiveness
• Autonomy
• Mutual trust
• Respect
• (Bridges et al 2011)
• Positive leadership
• Communication strategies and structures
• Training and development
• Resourcing
• Procedures
• Appropriate skill mix
• Supportive team climate
• Individual qualities and attitude
• Clarity of vision
• Respect and understanding
• (Nancarrow et al 2013)
• Democratic approaches
• Efforts to breakdown stereotypes and barriers
• Regular time to develop team working away from practice
• Good communication
• A singe shared work location
• Mutual role understanding
• (West and Slater, 1996)
• Task
• In pairs/threes explore one of the characteristics on the list.
• Why do you think it is important for collaborative working?
• How might its absence impact on patient care?
• How easy is it to incorporate into practice?
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSMT1ut8xgY
• What factors do you think influence the possibility of
interprofessional working?
• 5 minutes ….

• Personal
• Professional/cultural
• Systemic
Issues of conflict
• Silos of professions.

• Power struggles

• Ideological and theoretical differences between professions

• Do you need a specific set of skills linking to how teamwork


can be affective or ineffective?
• Multidisciplinary teams can be understood and embraced
within certain contexts however it might be that the team is
only understood within its own setting.
• Cultural change is about instilling collaboration as a normative
to professional conduct.
• In the major enquiries professional groups have been held
accountable for the consequences of poor communication
between different agencies
• Consequence - no joined up care
• E.g. Francis report, Winterbourne View, Baby P, Daniel Pelka ….
Recipe for good collaboration
• Challenge personal principles and self-interest

• Personal and public trust is at risk if we don’t get this correct

• Its about providing a safe environment. ( Francis report 2013 )

• This involves cultural change amongst the professionals


and even at the level of student
engagement that can sometimes
be very challenging.
• Is it possible that the behavioural change that is required is
too huge?

• Do we need to combine clinical accountability with collective


responsibility ?

• If so what does this mean ?


• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW9_GqShJPg
Getting a bad press
• Poor publicity about the high profile cases can be seen as a
positive
• Shocked professional groups who do not want to see such a
lack of care/ compassion ever happen again.
• Informed service user groups becoming informed consumers
with a voice
• Commissioners of services valuing the service user voice .
• Advocates for the patient and carers becoming a powerful
driver for new delivery and change.
Group work part 1
• Find the HCPC’s standard related to collaborative working in radiography
• Find those for two other professions (HCPC or NMC or GMC)
• Compare and contrast these considering the following questions
• Which are general statements of principle
• Are there specific practical guidance
• To what extent do these statements enable the following:
• Promoting patients’ rights
• Promoting effective practice
• Protecting patients and the public
• Challenging inequality
• Are there any references to qualities of character, e.g. honesty?
• From your thinking about these standards, what do you think are their
implications for interprofessional working?
Group work part 2
• What do you think might be a good recipe for collaborative
interprofessional working?
• Put together a poster which demonstrates your group’s
thinking
References
• Berwick Report (2013) A promise to learn– a commitment to act .Improving the
Safety of Patients in England
• Centre for Advancement of Interprofessional Education [Online]
http://caipe.org.uk/publications.html
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/.../Berwick_Report.pdf Francis
• Glasby,J., and Dickenson,H. (2009) ‘International Perspectives on Health and Social
care . Partnership working in Action’. Oxford, Iowa: Wiley–Blackwell
• Green, B. N., & Johnson, C. D. (2015). Interprofessional collaboration in research,
education, and clinical practice: working together for a better future. The Journal of
chiropractic education, 29(1), 1-10.
• Meads,G.,and Ashcroft,J. (2005) , ‘The Case of Interprofessional Collaboration In
Health and Social Care’.Oxford :Blackwell Publishing
• Nancarrow, S. A., Booth, A., Ariss, S., Smith, T., Enderby, P., & Roots, A. (2013). Ten
principles of good interdisciplinary team work. Human resources for health, 11, 19.
doi:10.1186/1478-4491-11-19
• Reeves,S.,Lewin,S.,Espin,.,S and Zwarenstein,M. (2010) ‘Interprofessional Teamwork
for Health and Social Care’. Chichester:Wiley– Blackwell
• Francis, R. (2013) Independent inquiry into care provide by Mid-Staffordshire NHS
Foundation Trust. June 2005-March 2009. Volumes 1 & 2. London: The Stationery
Office

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