Negotiating and managing partnership in primary care

Partnership in primary care

Bibliographic Data

ID12290231
AuthorsJulie Charlesworth (The Open University, corresponding author)
Year2001
Volume9
Issue5
Pages279-285
Publication date2001-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHealth & Social Care in the Community (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0966-0410 • E-ISSN: 1365-2524
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1046/j.1365-2524.2001.00305.x
PMID11560743
OpenAlexW2155914545
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited14

In the UK public service organisations are increasingly working together in new partnerships, networks and alliances, largely stimulated by government legislation, which aims to encourage 'joined-up' policy-making. This is particularly prevalent in health-care where local government, health authorities and trusts, voluntary and community groups are extending existing, and developing new, forms of partnership, particularly around Health Improvement Programmes and new primary care organisations. This paper explores two main aspects of how these new interorganizational relationships are being developed and managed and is based on research conducted in one case study locality. First, the new structures of partnership in primary care are mapped out, together with discussion on why these particular patterns of relationship between statutory and voluntary sector organisations have emerged, exploring both centrally and locally determined influences. Secondly, the paper explores the tensions associated with working within new policy-making and management structures, and how the additional demands of audit, performance measurement and the sheer pace of change, pose a potential threat to the partnership process

Audit · Business · Coproduction · General partnership · Government (linguistics · Legislation · Negotiation · Pace · Political science · Public relations · Public sector · Statutory law · Voluntary sector · Healthcare innovation and challenges · Interprofessional Education and Collaboration · Mental Health and Patient Involvement · Public Administration · Accounting

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