Partnerships: survey respondents' perceptions of inter-professional collaboration to address alcohol-related harms in England
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Thom, B., Herring, R., Bayley, M., Waller, S. and Berridge, V. 2013. Partnerships: survey respondents' perceptions of inter-professional collaboration to address alcohol-related harms in England. Critical Public Health. 23 (1), pp. 62-76. https://doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2012.724770
Type | Article |
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Title | Partnerships: survey respondents' perceptions of inter-professional collaboration to address alcohol-related harms in England |
Authors | Thom, B., Herring, R., Bayley, M., Waller, S. and Berridge, V. |
Abstract | Tackling alcohol-related harms crosses agency and professional boundaries, requiring collaboration between health, criminal justice, education and social welfare institutions. It is a key component of most multicomponent programmes in the United States, Australia and Europe. Partnership working, already embedded in service delivery structures, is a core mechanism for delivery of the new UK Government Alcohol Strategy. This article reports findings from a study of alcohol partnerships across England. The findings are based on a mix of open discussion interviews with key informants and on semi-structured telephone interviews with 90 professionals with roles in local alcohol partnerships. Interviewees reported the challenges of working within a complex network of interlinked partnerships, often within hierarchies under an umbrella partnership, some of them having a formal duty of partnership. The new alcohol strategy has emerged at a time of extensive reorganisation within health, social care and criminal justice structures. Further development of a partnership model for policy implementation would benefit from consideration of the incompatibility arising from required collaboration and from tensions between institutional and professional cultures. A clearer analysis of which aspects of partnership working provide ‘added value’ is needed. |
Keywords | alcohol; partnerships; professional collaboration |
Publisher | Routledge |
Journal | Critical Public Health |
ISSN | 0958-1596 |
Publication dates | |
Online | 27 Sep 2012 |
01 Mar 2013 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 12 Oct 2012 |
Accepted | 21 Aug 2012 |
Output status | Published |
Accepted author manuscript | |
Copyright Statement | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Critical Public Health on 27/09/2012, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/09581596.2012.724770 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2012.724770 |
Language | English |
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