Brief contents

Contributors

Author acknowledgements

Publisher’s acknowledgements

INTRODUCTION

Part One KEY ISSUES IN INTERPROFESSIONAL AND INTERAGENCY WORKING IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE

1 Working together: why it’s important and why it’s difficult

2 The drivers and dynamics of interprofessional working in policy and practice

3 Change and challenge in interprofessional education

4 Keeping interprofessional practice honest: fads and critical reflections

5 Working in partnership to develop local arrangements for interagency and interprofessional services: a case study

6 Information-sharing agreements between agencies and professionals: making use of law, policy and professional codes

Part Two INTERPROFESSIONAL AND INTERAGENCY WORKING WITH DIFFERENT SERVICE-USER GROUPS

7 Mental health

8 Learning disabilities

9 Safeguarding and child protection

10 Children in need and looked-after children

11 Older people

12 End of life care

13 Rehabilitation and disabled people

Part Three INTERPROFESSIONAL AND INTERAGENCY WORKING: SERVICE USERS, CARERS AND DIFFERENT PROFESSIONAL GROUPS

14 Service user issues: rights, needs and expectations

15 Member of the team? Carers experience of interprofessional working, key issues in current policy and practice

16 The barriers presented by power, control and agency agendas on carer participation in interprofessional working: promoting inclusionary practice

17 Teachers and education

18 Doctors and medicine

19 Occupational therapists

20 Social workers

21 Physiotherapists

22 Nurses

23 Pharmacists

24 Dentists

Index

A Handbook for Interprofessional Practice in the Human Services

Learning to Work Together