The Better Partnership Working series is a set of brief volumes aiming to offer practical support to people working in partnership across health and social care services and to provide helpful frameworks for making sense of the complexity involved in any partnership work. Each volume summarizes current policy and research in a detailed but accessible fashion and offers practical, evidence-based recommendations for policy and practice. This set gathers all the books in the series into one affordable package.
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Partnership working in health and social care, second edition Jon...

Recent years have seen a shift in health care and social work that has moved collaborative work to the center of everyday practice. But has that change led to better outcomes for the people who use these social services? "Evaluating Outcomes in Health and Social Care" takes up that question as well as the crucial underlying question of how best to measure those outcomes. This new edition brings the book fully up to date with the latest research findings and offers more tools, frameworks, and international examples of best practices to aid practitioners as they evaluate partnerships."

Leadership and management are increasingly considered important drivers of organizational performance. Yet despite the fact that they are viewed as essential components of integrated working, or partnerships, there is relatively little thoughtful work analyzing the relationship between the two sets of ideas. Until now. This updated second edition provides realistic, robust guidance for the leadership and management of interagency collaborative endeavors. It summarizes recent trends in policy, establishes what we can learn from research and practice, and sets out useful frameworks and...