The nature and impact of collaboration and integrated service delivery for pregnant women, children and families

Abstract

Integrated service models are changing the way professionals are working. Collaboration requires knowledge of the roles and responsibilities of colleagues and skill in communicating effectively with a diverse range of professionals to establish care pathways with referral and feedback mechanisms that generate collegial respect and trust.

The role of ‘embeddedness’ in the delivery of integrated children's services

“…The majority of participants noted the importance of health visiting services and participants from several Centres described having strong and enduring working relationships with health professionals based on collegial respect and trust (Schmied et al, 2010). This was particularly evident where health visiting services were currently, or had recently been, co-located:…”

“…Other research highlights the gaps in health knowledge of Centre practitioners and the wider challenges posed for integration of health services (Condon & Ingram, 2011;Raymond, 2009). A review of models of integrated health services for pregnant women, children and families reported effective communication mechanisms and professional relationships and boundaries as key areas of concern in collaboration (Schmied et al, 2010).…”

Family Health Medical Practices and Nursing Care: a Bibliometric Approach

“…In the relation between the most cited articles in the group of selected papers (Local Citation Score) among the selected set, two studies stand out [33,34] because they are very cited among the selected set and still present a list of citation among the ten most cited in the group of articles selected (Local Citation Score).…”

Negotiating service learning through community engagement: Adaptive leadership, knowledge, dialogue and power

“…The dialogic process of engagement for community development is an ongoing one of collaboration (Schmied, Mills, Kruske, Kemp, Fowler & Homer 2010), where competing aims are often re-visited and where communication takes time and effort. However, the multi-layered nature of engagement often poses communication challenges and tensions of power relations whereby one layer of the community may have been consulted, but that consultation does not necessarily filter down to other layers (Osman & Attwood 2007;Preece 2013a).…”