Leading Interprofessional Teams in Health and Social Care

The move to multidisciplinary teams in primary care and the emphasis on joinedup working across the human services make it increasingly necessary for healthand ... » 

The move to multidisciplinary teams in primary care and the emphasis on joinedup working across the human services make it increasingly necessary for healthand social care professionals to take on a variety of leadership roles in teamsmade up of people from different professional backgrounds. This sort ofleadership requires different skills from those required when working in thecontext of a single profession familiar to every member of the team.In Leading Interprofessional Teams in Health and Social Care the authors usedetailed casestudies to explore these skills. Nurses social workers and otherhealth and social care professionals specialists and managers are included inthe casestudies to demonstrate how leadership and teamwork roles can be takenin different ways and in different circumstances. The final section of the bookpresents an analysis of the case studies to draw out the key issues anddiscusses how readers might develop themselves to be successful leaders andteam members in these diverse settings. «