Table Of ContentInterpro/essional issues in community
and primary health care
Also by Patricia Owens
COMMUNITY CARE AND SEVERE PHYSICAL DISABILITY
NURSING IN CONFLICT (with Howard Glennerster)
Also by John Carrier
MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE: Complaints and Compensation
(with Ian Kendall)
SOCIALISM AND THE NHS (edited with Ian Kendall)
Also by John Horder
THE FUTURE GENERAL PRACTITIONER: Learning and Teaching
THE WRITINGS OF JOHN HUNT
Interprofessional
issues in community
and primary health
care
Edited by
Patricia Owens
John Carrier
and
John Horder
palgrave
macmillan
Selection and editorial matter 0 Patricia OWens,
John Carrier and John Horder 1995
Preface 0 John Horder 1995
Introduction 0 Patricia Owens and John Carrier 1995
Individual chapters (in order) 0 John Carrier and Ian KendalL Patrlda
Owens and .Heather Petm, Andrew Wall, Anna Cohen, Gail Wilson and Julie
Dockrell, Ellzabeth BirchalL Roslyn Corney, Patrida OWens, Margot Jefferys,
Peter Pritchard 1995
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Contents
The contributors vii
Preface xi
John Horder
Introduction 1
Patrida Owens and John Carrier
Section One: Theoretical contexts
1 Professionalism and interprofessionalism in health
and community care: some theoretical issues 9
John Carrier and Ian Kendall
2 Professionals and management 37
Patrida Owens and Heather Petch
3 Ethical and resource issues in health and social care 57
Andrew Wall
4 The market and professional frameworks 71
Anna Cohen
Section Two: Interprofessional collaboration in action
5 Elderly care 95
Gail Wilson and Julie Dockrell
6 Child protection III
Elizabeth Birchall
7 Mental health services 137
Roslyn Corney
8 Palliative care 165
Patrida Owens
9 Primary health care 185
Margot Jefferys
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vi Contents
Section Three: Inside teamwork
10 Learning to work effectively in teams 205
Peter Pritchard
Index 233
The contributors
Elizabeth Birchall has worked for many years in various Social
Services Departments at field and managerial level. From 1987 to
1992 she worked with Christine Hallett at the University of Stirling
on a major project investigating interprofessional co-ordination in
child protection work. Her most recent publication is 'The frequency
of child abuse - what do we really know?', in O. Stevenson (ed.),
Child Abuse: Public Policy and Professional Practice (Harvester Wheat
sheaf. 1989).
John Carrier is a Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the London
School of Economics, and has been in higher education for over
twenty years. His research interests are in social policy and
the law and health services. He is Vice-Chairman of the Royal
Free Hospital Trust and CAIPE. He has collaborated with Ian Kendall
on a number of publications, of which their most recent is Medical
Negligence: Complaints and Compensation (Avebury Press, 1990).
Anna Cohen is a social anthropologist who has worked in psychia
tric hospitals in Italy and on rural development and health care in
India. More recently she has carried out a project on the introduc
tion of the internal market in the NHS and the contrasting models of
health care held by clinicians and managers.
Roslyn Corney is Professor of Psychology at the University of
Greenwich. Her main research interests are the evaluation of coun
selling and psychotherapy, investigating changes due to GP fund
holding, and examining the roles of attached and employed mental
health professionals in general practice. She is the editor of Develop
ing Communication and Counselling Skills in Medidne a nd Counselling
in General Practice, published by Routledge & Kegan Paul.
John Horder was President of the Royal College of General Practi
tioners from 1979 to 1982, and a GP in London for many years in a
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Health Centre. He has been Chairman of the Centre for the Advance
ment of Interprofessional Education in Primary Health and Com
munity Care since 1987.
Margot Jefferys was Professor of Medical Sociology at Bedford
College, London University, until her retirement in 1982. She is
currently Visiting Professor in the Centre of Medical Law and Ethics
at King's College, London. She has written many articles on British
health and welfare services. In 1983 she published Re-thinkinn
General Practice with Hessie Sachs (Tavistock Publications).
Ian Kendall is Associate Dean at the University of Portsmouth and
has been deeply involved for many years in nursing and social work
education. He is Co-author with John Carrier of Health and the
National Health Service, published by Athlone Press.
Patricia Owens has worked in the NHS and Social Services, and
trained as a social anthropologist at Cambridge University. She was
Director of CAIPE at the London School of Economics from 1991 to
1993. Her most recent publications are Nursinn in Conflict, with Ho
ward Glennerster (Macmillan, 1990), and Implementinn Fundholdinn
in General Practice, with Howard Glennerster and Manos Matsaganis
(Open University Press, 1994).
Heather Petch currently works for CHAR, an organisation which
promotes better services for homeless people. She has a particular
interest in health and homelessness, and is the author of two reports
on special health and social services in inner London for homeless
people.
Peter Pritchard, who was a general practitioner in Oxfordshire, has
worked on team development for a number of years. More recently
he has published, with his son James Pritchard, a management
consultant in industry, a workbook entitled Developinn Teamwork in
Primary Health Care (Oxford University Press, 1992).
Andrew Wall is a Senior Fellow in the Health Services Manage
ment Centre, University of Birmingham. He was a Chief Executive,
and worked in the National Health Services for twenty years. His
most recent publications are Ethics and the Health Service Manager
The contributors ix
(King's Fund Institute, 1989), The Reorganised National Health Service
(with Ruth Levitt, 4th edn, revised 1993) and Values in the NHS
(Institute of Health Service Managers, 1993).
