Interprofessional Practice

Author: Ali Ewing, Principal Lecturer Learning and TeachingJune 2011

The University of NorthamptonPark Campus, Boughton Green Road

NORTHAMPTON, UK. NN2 7AL

Interprofessional Practice

What is a team?

What is interprofessional?

Interprofessional Practice

What is interprofessional practice?

What is interprofessional practice not?

‘when two or more professions learn with, from and about each other to improve quality of care’

CAIPE

A definition

‘The application of principles of adult learning to interactive group-based learning, which relates collaborative learning to collaborative practice within a coherent rationale which is informed by understanding of interpersonal, group , organisational and interorganisational relations and processes of professionalisation.’

Barr 2002

Another Definition

• Health and social care centrally financed – differing degrees of local autonomy with service delivery largely resting with professions.

• Relatively cohesive organisation of service delivery at uniprofessional level.

• Varying and unpredictable IP working

• Service user- passive voice

Context in UK – post WW2

• Conservative government

• Major reorganisation of public services with tight financial controls.

• Market emphasis – public awareness wanting coherence, accountability and transparency.

• Cost effective – consumer choice

• Internal market – purchaser/provider

Context in UK – 1980’s

• From health and social care professionals to managers.

• Increasing fragmentation in organisation and service delivery

• Growth of private sector – PFI, joint responsibility.

• Increased service user voice

• Control further away from professionals

Context in UK – shift of control

• Integration of services and collaborative working.

• Interprofessional working thought to be cost effective in streamlining and avoiding duplication.

• Counter- financial restraints can hinder implementation and maintenance of interprofessional collaboration.

Solution?

• Political Drivers – not new

• Across political parties – universal acknowledgement that agencies and professions need to co-operate if service delivery is not to be fragmented and for addressing health inequalities.

Solution

• WHO 1978 first identified interprofessional education as important component of primary health care.

• WHO 1988 Technical report ‘Learning Together to Work Together for Health’

• NHS Plan 2000 – Interprofessional Education became a priority

Political Drivers

• Kennedy 2001

• Laming 2003

• National Service Frameworks

• WHO 2010 –Framework for Action for Interprofessional education and Collaborative practice

Political Drivers

“Whatever the gaps between rhetoric and reality, and whatever the differences between political parties and governments, the legacy of the changes in health and social care in the United Kingdom since 1940’s is emphasis on cost-effective integrated services that meet the need of, and actively involve, service users.” Pollard, Sellman and Senior, 2005 p9

Political Drivers

“Organisational and professional partiality and territory, with their inherent tendencies towards restrictive practices, alongside organisational, philosophical and cultural differences, have long been a detriment to the service user and have contributed to policy failure.”

Miller 2004 p132

Challenge to the professions!

Professional v Interprofessional

or

Professional = Interprofessional

Discussion

• What might be some challenges of interprofessional practice within your service area?

• What might be some opportunities of interprofessional practice within your service area?

Interprofessional Practice

• Interprofessional practice is not an end it is a means.

• Is this more effective because it is interprofessional?

Final Thoughts

• Interprofessional practice should:

– Improve care

– Improve working lives

– Effective use of resources

Final Thoughts

• Miller C.,(2004) Producing Welfare: A modern agenda, Basingstoke: Palgrave.

• Pollard C., Sellman D. and Senior B.,(2005) The Need for Interprofessional Working. In Barrett G., Sellman D. and Thomas J.,(2005) Interprofessional Working in Health and Social Care, Basingstoke: Palgrave.

References

• Barr H., Koppel I., Reeves S., Hammick M. and Freeth D., (2005) Effective Interprofessional Education: Argument, Assumption and Evidence, Oxford: Blackwell.

• Freeth D., Hammick M., Reeves S., Koppel S. and Barr H., (2005) Effective Interprofessional Education: Development, Delivery and Evaluation, Oxford: Blackwell.

Suggested Reading

• Meads G. and Ashcroft J., (2005) The Case for Interprofessional Collaboration: In Health and Social Care, Oxford: Blackwell

• Journal of Interprofessional Care

• Centre for Advancement of Interprofessional Education : CAIPE

• WHO report 2010 -Framework for Action

Suggested Reading

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