Partnership Working in Public Health

✍ Scribed by David J. Hunter; Neil Perkins

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 213
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The UK government’s reforms of the NHS and public health system require partnerships if they are to succeed. Those partnerships concerned with public health are especially important and are deemed to be a ’good thing’ which add, rather than consume, value. Yet the significant emphasis on partnership working to secure effective policy and service delivery exists despite the evidence testifying to how difficult it is to make partnerships work or achieve results. Partnership working in public health presents the findings from a detailed study of public health partnerships in England. The lessons from the research are used to explore the government’s changes in public health now being implemented, most of which centre on new partnerships called Health and Wellbeing Boards that have been established to work differently from their predecessors.The book assesses their likely impact and the implications for the future of public health partnerships. Drawing on systems thinking, it argues that partnerships can only succeed if they work in quite different ways. The book will therefore appeal to the public health community and students of health policy.

✦ Table of Contents

PARTNERSHIP WORKING IN PUBLIC HEALTH
Contents
List of tables and boxes
List of abbreviations
Acknowledgements
About the authors
Series editors’ foreword
1. Introduction
The public health system in England
Plan of the book
2. Theories and concepts of partnerships
What’s in a name? Defining partnerships
Why collaborate?
What makes for a ‘successful’ partnership?
Models and frameworks of partnership working
When is a partnership not a partnership?
Barriers to partnership working
Delivering through partnerships
Partnerships: policy, practice and context
Partnerships and power
Speaking a different language? Cultural barriers and partnerships
Time for a new approach?
Conclusion
3. Public health partnerships: what’s the prognosis?
Public health partnerships under New Labour
Public health partnerships in England and the policy context
Systematic literature review methodology
What does the research evidence tell us? Policy process issues
What does the research evidence tell us about partnerships and outcomes?
What does the research evidence tell us about New Labour and public health partnerships?
Conclusion
4. The view from the bridge: senior practitioners’ views on public health partnerships
What the research tells us
Partnership working: the barriers
Partnerships and Local Area Agreements
Partnerships and outcomes
Discussion
5. The view from the front line: practitioners’ views on public health partnerships
Methods
Benefits of partnership working
What makes a partnership work?
Barriers to partnership working
Public health partnerships: what are the benefits for service users?
The views of service users
Service providers and policy process issues
Capacity, commissioning and competition
Discussion – partnerships at the front line: what works and what does not?
Conclusion: from top to bottom – lessons to be learned about partnership working
6. The changing policy context: new dawn or poisoned chalice?
The new health policy landscape
New public health partnerships
An interim assessment of progress
Conclusion
7. Conclusion: the future for public health partnerships
Looking to the future
Last word
References
Index