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The Impact of Changes in Health and Social Care on Enteral Feeding in the Community

“…A clear referral mechanism and good communication between healthcare professionals is essential [14]. Pivotal to success is the need for close links with referring acute units, in particular the NNS (where present), dietetic and SLT departments.…”

“…Collaboration and cooperation are essential parts of the roles of nurses and other healthcare professionals in order to achieve a common goal [12,13]. However, there are factors which hinder and facilitate collaboration in a multi-disciplinary team such as the HEN team, including organizational and individual factors [14,15]. …”

Conceptualising and Facilitating Success in Interagency Collaborations: Implications for Practice from the Literature

“…Others cite personality conflicts as the greatest risk to group cohesion and accomplishment of a collaborative mission (Nicholson et al, 2000;Tseng et al, 2011). The practice of interagency collaboration in the context of child wellbeing almost always necessitates the confrontation of disparate assessment and intervention paradigms between practitioners (e.g., the ecological orientation favoured by school psychologists vs. the medical model orientation of their clinical psychologist counterparts), and the need to reconcile both ideological and practical differences to facilitate presentation of a unified service without functional compromise would seem critical.…”

“…In an early article that has resounded in subsequent collaboration research, McLaughlin and Covert (1984) stressed the critical role of some of the above human or people factors in the success or failure of an interagency collaboration, highlighting in particular — though from something of a deficit perspective — the contributions of role clarification, leadership , and a positive collaborative group atmosphere in the interagency formula. Others cite personality conflicts as the greatest risk to group cohesion and accomplishment of a collaborative mission (Nicholson et al, 2000; Tseng et al, 2011). The practice of interagency collaboration in the context of child wellbeing almost always necessitates the confrontation of disparate assessment and intervention paradigms between practitioners (e.g., the ecological orientation favoured by school psychologists vs. the medical model orientation of their clinical psychologist counterparts), and the need to reconcile both ideological and practical differences to facilitate presentation of a unified service without functional compromise would seem critical.…”

“…For example, collaboration between agencies can result in reduced duplication of services to clients (Bradshaw, 1997;Leathard, 2003). Further benefits of interagency collaboration appearing in the literature can be summarised as follows (Grace, Coventry, & Batterham, 2012;Horwath & Morrison, 2011;Leathard, 2003;Nicholson, Artz, Armitage, & Fagan, 2000;Polivka, Kennedy, & Chaudry, 1997):…”